What are your favorite related resources?

johnjaye
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What are your favorite related resources? Oct 22, 2011 11:59:09 GMT -5

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A resource that has been blowing my mind is www.opensecrets.org...
They track lobbying and campaign finance... you can look at the data in a wide variety of ways, but a few examples...

Top Lobbying Spenders:
www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2011&indexType=s

Top Campaign financers in the last Presidential Election:
McCain:
www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00006424
Obama:
www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
(The extreme presence of wall street in the top contributors is pretty insane)

Ryan R. New Member Occupation Member For a Mass Party of Labor! Posts: 54	What are your favorite related resources? Oct 22, 2011 20:20:40 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ryan R. on Oct 22, 2011 20:20:40 GMT -5 www.marxists.org/ www.marxist.com/ www.socialistappeal.org/ For a working class perspective on matters of the political.
	"A permanent revolution versus a permanent slaughter: that is the struggle, in which the stake is the future of man"- L.D. Trotsky "Revolutionary audacity can achieve everything"- Ted Grant www.socialistappeal.org/ www.marxist.com/

genconc New Member Posts: 9	What are your favorite related resources? Oct 24, 2011 16:45:13 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by genconc on Oct 24, 2011 16:45:13 GMT -5 wealthandwant.com, a site dedicated to the ideas of Henry George, who I view as the last and best of our founding fathers. It seems to me that Thomas Paine was a pretty sharp cookie too.