Tag Archives: Lewis Powell Memo

How And Why Corporations Took Over Our Politics

Dave Bradley has been posting about the Lewis Powell Memo since at least 2010.   More recently, it has been getting increasing exposure and mentions on social media, a good thing.  Sheldon Whitehouse covered it in Speech 1 of his … Continue reading

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Sheldon Whitehouse Exposes Right Wing Court Capture In Series Of Speeches

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, explains to America how dark right wing money packed the court in a series of floor speeches titled “The Scheme,” exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture … Continue reading

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

If America Has Been Poisoned What Is The Antidote?

The Powell memo, Ronald Reagan, money is speech, corporations are people, union busting, racism, Willie Horton, Rush Limbaugh, guns, white supremacists, voting, etc.  Antidote at 9:55.

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on If America Has Been Poisoned What Is The Antidote?

The Powell Manifesto Realized: The Shocking 1971 Republican Blueprint To Eliminate Liberalism And Establish Corporate Domination Over America’s Pillars Of Democracy

It’s called the Lewis Powell Memo (aka The Powell Manifesto) written in 1971, before he became a Supreme Court Justice and went on to write a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment “right” for corporations to influence ballot … Continue reading

Posted in Blog for Iowa | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The Powell Manifesto Realized: The Shocking 1971 Republican Blueprint To Eliminate Liberalism And Establish Corporate Domination Over America’s Pillars Of Democracy

Jen Senko: How Right Wing Media Has Divided The Country And What We Must Do

See my post earlier this week Movie Review:  The Brainwashing of My Dad, the documentary by Jen Senko about losing her father to right wing media. Also on Blog for Iowa see the list of the thirteen Iowa commercial radio … Continue reading

Posted in Blog for Iowa, Media Bias | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Jen Senko: How Right Wing Media Has Divided The Country And What We Must Do

The GOP, Corporate America, And The Powell Manifesto

Progressives and others have been going wild this week over a Rick Santorum remark denegrating college education, basing his statement on something that President Obama didn’t even say.  It is time for us to get over being shocked by every “crazy” … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate Greed, GOP | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The GOP, Corporate America, And The Powell Manifesto

Observations on the Media in Iowa: A Brief History of Consolidation

by Dave Bradley When we left last week, I had asked that you read the Lewis Powell memo that became the catalyst for the right wing (or as Paul Krugman refers to them – the movement conservatives) to begin a … Continue reading

Posted in Main Page | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment