Evergreene Digest A Journal of Progress for the Rest of Us

• Casualties of Economic Terrorism: Surveying the Damage
• Sick in the head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs
• Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending

David McGraw, Amped Status

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Gary Kohls

"The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight." -- Michael Lind, To Have and to Have Not

We all have very strong differences of opinion on many issues. However, like our founding fathers before us, we must put aside our differences and unite to fight a common enemy.

It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer has political representation. The U.S. economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us.

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Sick in the head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs, Luke Mitchell, Harper’s Magazine
The Health Insurance Industry will not allow meaningful change. It's war against the American people.

In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

• In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin. [includes rush transcript]
• U.S. Government For Sale
• Molly Ivins: Time to go long (campaign finance reform)