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Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse
Seeded on Mon May 21, 2012 12:18 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. Deregulation permitted banks to leverage a small amount of capital with enormous debt in order to maximize return on equity, thereby maximizing …
Barack Obama, the Great Deceiver
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:14 PM EDT ()
Those times of heady promise are now a cruel memory. Again and again, Obama has shown his true colors. It isn’t simply that Obama lied. Politicians lie.
Class Warfare on Two Fronts: From Afghanistan to Middle America, the Untold Story of Sgt. Bales
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:45 AM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
This past Thursday, a Modesto, California, man whose house was in foreclosure shot and killed the Sheriff's deputy and the locksmith who came to evict him from his condominium unit. Modesto authorities responded by sending 100 police and SWAT snipers to counter-attack, and …
Romney's Economic Fix and the Inequity of Private-Equity Hustlers
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:12 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
What are these phantasmagoric money machines that they call "private-equity firms?" They're much in the news these days, because a fellow who was a private-equity magnate is presently running for president. Mitt Romney piled up a quarter-billion-dollar personal fortune thro …
There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Economic Problems On The National Level
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:48 AM EDT ()
For those waiting for our economic problems to be solved, you can quit holding your breath. There is simply not going to be a solution to our economic problems on the national level. So why is that the case? Well, it is because the economic policies of both …
The cruel stupidity that is economic austerity
Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:06 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
When right wing politicians talk about deficits you can be certain that they're waging class warfare. When right wing politicians pursue economic austerity you can be certain that they're waging class warfare.
Oligarchy is the new Fascism
Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:20 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
When the super rich can break laws and face zero consequences because they have bribed the politicians and law enforces then we don't have a Democracy under the rule of law. We have an oligarchy for the super rich and a fake rigged democracy. Through a legalized system of b …
The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh Says About America
Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:31 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
These “going postal” rampage killings like the one that just took place at the Oikos University campus happen so often and with such relentless rhythm, a lot of people might easily assume that these mass-shootings at American schools and workplaces have always b …
45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor
Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 8:36 AM EDT ()
The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today. America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer. So why is this happening? Well, i …
Save Wall Street! Congress Passes JO(BS) Act
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 8:54 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this time of "The Great Hurt" — with widespread unemployment, middle-class incomes …
Wall Street's Huge Bet on Romney
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:17 AM EDT (Center for Responsive Politics)
Let there be no doubt where Wall Street's political loyalties lie: Of all the money the securities and investment industry has poured into the 2012 presidential contest so far -- to the candidates and the super PACs behind them -- an unambiguous 92 percent has gone to the GOP …
Conservative Bullying Has Made America Into a Broken, Dysfunctional Family: But There Are Ways to Regain Our Well-Being
Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:58 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Here are a few broad-brush examples of how this screw-you attitude toward the idea of a balanced, strong, cooperative American family is playing out right now: Most conservatives now openly reject the very idea of democracy.
80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago
Seeded on Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:00 AM EDT ()
The federal government is trying to convince us that the unemployment rate is going down, but that is not really true. The key is to look at the percentage of working age Americans that actually have jobs. During the last recession that percentage fell dramatically as …
Rush Limbaugh Is No Joke
Seeded on Fri Mar 9, 2012 8:37 AM EST (Common Dreams)
One wonders what the political landscape would look like without Limbaugh. Arguably, with fourteen million people needing to find another braying jackass to serve as their mentor, his absence would have a salutary effect. But Limbaugh ain’t going anywhere.& …
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2012 10:31 AM EST (Rolling Stone)
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent
ILLUSION OF RECOVERY: FEELINGS VERSUS FACTS
Seeded on Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:16 PM EST ()
The last week has offered an amusing display of the difference between the cheerleading corporate mainstream media, lying Wall Street shills and the critical thinking analysts like Zero Hedge, Mike Shedlock, Jesse, and John Hussman.
Are Income And Wealth Inequality Inevitable?
Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:21 AM EST ()
Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street slogan We Are The 99%, growing income and wealth inequality in the United States was a source of much discussion in 2011. That talk has largely disappeared now, replaced by the great distraction called the presidential political campaign.
The Party People of Wall Street
Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:17 AM EST (Common Dreams)
This year, the butt of many a joke were the protesters of Occupy Wall Street.
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.
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