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The Corporate State Will Be Broken
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:04 PM EST (Truthout - All Articles)
I do not know how long it will take to dethrone the corporate state, but I do know it is a dead and terminal system of power. As the global economy deteriorates and climate change causes greater disruptions, these corporations will be increasingly discredited.
The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks
Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:25 AM EST ()
According to shocking research done by the IMF, the global elite are holding a total of 18 trillion dollars in offshore banks. And that figure does not even count any money being held in Switzerland. That is a staggering amount of money. Keep in mind that U. …
Corporate Personhood Cannot Withstand Organized Persons
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:33 PM EST ()
There are many schemes now for undoing the doctrines under which corporations claim constitutional rights and bribery is deemed constitutionally protected "speech." Every single one of these schemes depends on a massive movement of public pressure all across the homeland fo …
A Bill of Rights for Occupied Communities
Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 4:42 AM EST (Common Dreams)
When communities try to keep corporations from engaging in activities they don’t want, they often find they don’t have the legal power to say “no.” Why? Because our current legal structure too often protects the “rights” of corporations over …
The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, but Who It's For
Seeded on Wed Jan 4, 2012 4:15 AM EST ()
Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government. But the surge of cynicism now engulfing America isn’t about government’s size.
It's Official: Gov Stats Shows the Middle Class is Dead
Seeded on Mon Jan 2, 2012 12:37 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
Beginning last year the average American family: could not afford the average single family house... depended on their employer for health care insurance or went without... were in debt with no way out... didn't pursuing further education... saved nothing...
Take over the corporations!
Seeded on Mon Jan 2, 2012 12:22 PM EST ()
The question is simple: Are we going to live under corporate domination, or will we have a free and prosperous society of, by and for the people? The corporations are destroying society in their scramble to grab everything they can to stay alive and profit.
How We Got Here With the Economy and How to Get Out
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 11:25 PM EST (Common Dreams)
It’s easy to get fixated with small-bore issues on the economy, even if they don’t seem so small-bore at the time. Stimulus packages. Bailouts. Debt ceilings. Deficit commissions. Payroll tax-cut extensions.
Did the Poor Cause the Crisis?
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 2:56 PM EST ()
The United States continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Is government to blame for what went wrong, and, if so, in what sense?
40 Hard Questions That The American People Should Be Asking Right Now
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 12:12 PM EST ()
An increasing number of Americans are deeply frustrated with what is going on in Washington D.C.
Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 11:24 AM EST ()
The Commerce Department’s release of trade figures last week showed another large deficit with China for October, albeit slightly lower than the record hit the previous month. This figure will renew the calls for stronger action against China.
Morons Should not Read This
Seeded on Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:39 AM EST ("Nobody Likes A Liar" - by Mike Rivero | Before It's News)
Bankers rule the world. A new Swiss Federal Institute of Technology study says so.
"How Could This Happen in America?" Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats
Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:41 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Why is the armed might of the state, (necessary in waging war against foreign enemies) being applied to domestic policing of local communities and peaceful protests?
The First Amendment Upside Down. Why We Must Occupy Democracy
Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:06 PM EST (Common Dreams)
You’ve been seeing this across the country … Americans assaulted, clubbed, dragged, pepper-sprayed … Why? For exercising their right to free speech and assembly — protesting the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the …
14 Reasons Why We Should Nationalize The Federal Reserve
Seeded on Mon Nov 7, 2011 11:53 AM EST ()
One of the most important steps that we could take to bring prosperity back to America would be to nationalize the Federal Reserve. Doing so would allow the federal government to quit borrowing money, dramatically reduce taxes and eventually pay off the entire U.S.
It's Always Been a Class War
Seeded on Thu Nov 3, 2011 12:03 PM EDT (Firedoglake)
Whenever conservatives get caught with their hands in the till they shout, “Class Warfare!” at those of us who would like to stop their looting.
An apocalyptic end to world's biggest bubble
Seeded on Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:10 AM EDT (MarketWatch.com)
My America is out of control, babbling nonsense, acting like a junkie, addict, very bad alcoholic. Been there. Now decades in recovery. Also worked years professionally with hundreds from Betty Ford Center.
The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy
Seeded on Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:33 AM EDT (Truthdig)
Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known that in this 10th month of the first year of His Majesty King John Hickenlooper’s reign, the sovereign governor of the Kingdom of Colorado handed down an edict closing the grounds of the Capitol palace to the public and ordering his praet …
#OWS Protesters Visit Upper East Side Homes of Jamie Dimon, David Koch, John Paulson, Rupert Murdoch and Other 1%ers
Seeded on Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:01 AM EDT ()
Fifth Avenue at number 838 is a massive building, overlooking the southeast corner of Central Park. Blocks from the world-famous Plaza Hotel, the only people likely to pass by this block are extremely wealthy.
The Warning Occupy Wall Street Has for President Obama
Seeded on Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:16 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
It’s as if the spreading movement, made up of kids who might once have turned out for presidential candidate Obama, had left him and his administration in the dust. Like big labor, the left, and the media, the administration that loved its bankers to death (and got …
If Top 1% Hadn't Ripped Off Trillions, You'd Likely Be Making Thousands of Dollars More Right Now
Seeded on Thu Oct 6, 2011 12:19 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
According to Paul Buchheit, a professor with City Colleges of Chicago and founder of fightingpoverty.org, “if middle- and upper-middle-class families had maintained the same share of American productivity that they held in 1980, they would be making an average of $12, …
How #OccupyWallStreet Is Evolving and Gaining Power
Seeded on Thu Oct 6, 2011 11:49 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
What started as a few hundred independent activists gathering for a protest on Wall Street, and a few dozen having the resolve to extend their demonstration by camping out in Manhattan’s financial district, has become something much bigger.
Class Warfare Indeed
Seeded on Mon Oct 3, 2011 10:38 AM EDT (ZNET)
The moneyed class in this country has been doing class warfare on our heads and on those who came before us for more than two centuries.
Occupy Wall Street: Beyond Bologna
Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:17 AM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
At the Wall Street protest, a young woman carried a sign, "REVOLUTION IS FUN," and I don't doubt that she was having a great time, because it can be exhilarating to engage in a just and noble fight, and to feel that you are an agent of change, a participant in history even, …
Middle Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28% of Americans Who Were Part of the Middle Class Have Fallen Out of It
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:52 AM EDT ()
Editor’s Note: This is our first Middle Class Death Watch roundup. Building off of our extensive report on the financial destruction of the United States, this will be a regular feature moving forward.
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