America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"