Below is an piece by Bill Moyers and JOURNAL writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below.

The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Like the largesse he spread so bountifully to members of Congress and the White House staff -- countless fancy meals, skybox tickets to basketball games and U2 concerts, golfing sprees in Scotland -- Jack Abramoff is the gift that keeps on giving.

The notorious lobbyist and his cohorts (including conservatives Tom Delay, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed) shook down Native American tribal councils and other clients for tens of millions of dollars, buying influence via a coalition of equally corrupt government officials and cronies dedicated to dismantling government by selling it off, making massive profits as they tore the principles of a representative democracy to shreds.

Continue reading "Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues" »

Tag(s): Bill Moyers Essay
Posted by Bill Moyers Journal at 10:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBacks (0)

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Once again we're closing the barn door after the horse is out and gone. In Washington the Federal Reserve has finally acted to stop some of the predatory lending that exploited people’s need for money. And like Rip Van Winkle, Congress is finally waking up from a long doze under the warm sun of laissez faire economics. That's French for turning off the alarm until the burglars have made their getaway.

Philosophy is one reason we do this to ourselves; when you worship market forces as if they were the gods of Olympus, then the gods can do no wrong -- until, of course, they prove to be human. Then we realize we should have listened to our inner agnostic and not been so reverent in the first place.

Continue reading "Mother’s Milk of Politics Turns Sour" »

Tag(s): Bill Moyers Essay
Posted by Bill Moyers Journal at 12:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBacks (0)

In honor of Memorial Day, JOURNAL writers Bill Moyers and Michael Winship wrote the following essay on how to best honor our veterans.

Memorial Day

We honor our war dead this Memorial Day weekend. The greatest respect we could pay them would be to pledge no more wars for erroneous and misleading reasons; no more killing and wounding except for the defense of our country and our freedoms.

We also could honor our dead by caring for the living, and do better at it than we are right now.

There has been a flurry of allegations concerning neglect, malpractice and corner cutting at the Veterans Administration especially for those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder – PTSD – or major depression, brought on by combat.

Continue reading "Honoring Our Veterans" »

Tag(s): Bill Moyers Essay
Posted by Bill Moyers Journal at 12:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBacks (0)

Tag(s): Bill Moyers Essay , government
Posted by Bill Moyers Journal at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBacks (0)