Recent Votes

• The summer of Astroturf

  Source: Politico

  The August recess may not have done much to clarify the health care debate, but it has shined a bright light on one of Washington, D.C.'s secrets: The town is paved with Astroturf.

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• Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers

  Source: AlterNet.org

  As nearly 2,000 progressives made their way last weekend to Pittsburgh for the annual Netroots Nation conference, the right made its stand in the same town with a conference called RightOnline, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a group that has gained notoriety for its invol …

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• Is this the beginning of the second American Civil War?

  The ideological divide in America, deliberately fomented by the right, is now so severe we can say we are already in the midst of a "social civil war."

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• Unmasking Astroturf (Or. what we knew on Newsvine all along)

  Source: The Huffington Post

  A good summary of all of the lobbying groups who have been polluting sites like Newsvine with synthetic grass-roots opinion in support of corporations wanting to frighten legislators into thinking that they're up against "massive" public opposition.

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