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Showing videos filed under: coffee party
Mike Papantonio, Kate Clinton, Money Media & Corruption
October 26, 2010“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.The F Word: Campaign Cash, Corruption, Corporate Power.
October 26, 2010Campaign cash -- we're drowning in a flood of it. As Katrina vanden Heuvel noted yesterday on GRITtv, this is on track to be a $5 billion election—and it's not over. We used to have words for spending like that on politicians: bribery. Remember all that quaint anti-colonial talk about "Independence"? As Zephyr Teachout commented in a meeting I was part of, hosted by the Coffee Party, those founding fathers were all about independence from corruption and prosecuting bribery. Remember the phrase "anti-Trust"?Max Blumenthal: Israel, the GOP, and the Coffee Party
March 16, 2010Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news: the Obama administration's spat with Israel over settlements, the recent California Republican party convention, and the new "coffee party" movement.Max Blumenthal, Remaking Geithner and Checkpoints
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