because somebody has to say it
The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading not only throughout the US (200+ occupations in progress or planned); it is starting to spread around the world. For example, I found this quote on http://www.evanfleischer.com: “ It was incredible. Unification of so many different types of people from all over Italy and the world. Almost the [...]
Many people are so propagandized that they really cannot see what is happening to us and Earth. It is like expecting fish to notice that their water is slowly being poisoned…or the old frog-in-boiling-water analogy. But the following video is so important, so cleverly done, that you can show it to kids, or to people [...]
A former Wall Street manager turned muckraking journalist gets inside how the banks looted the Treasury, stole the bailout, and continued with business as usualWe all watched as packs of former Big Financiers commandeered posts in Washington and lavished trillions in bailouts to “save” big Wall Street firms that used that money for anything and [...]
From an acclaimed, original observer of media and culture: how we can draw upon popular fantasies to create an alternative politics through imagination and spectacle—a twenty-first-century manifesto for the left.What do Paris Hilton, Grand Theft Auto, Las Vegas, and a McDonald’s commercial have in common with progressive politics? Not much. And, as Stephen Duncombe brilliantly [...]
So now GOP Senator Orrin Hatch is proposing a law to mandate drug testing all unemployed workers. You would have to test negative for drugs to receive unemployment compensation. Small, minor detail: Such a law would be unconstitutional. It would be a major violation of rights. OK, we all know that the Republican claim to [...]
Haiti is an amazing country. Sure, it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. But that is not the fault of the brave and generous Haitian people. Haiti was formerly one of the most brutal French plantation colonies. Some of the planters there were monsters of sadism and depravity. Read the history. The rum [...]
What is it with Florida? The reports just keep coming in about Immokalee County, where poor immigrant workers are lured with the promise of jobs and then trapped in brutally inhumane conditions and not allowed to escape. Over and over we have been asked to boycott this or that fast food restaurant in the last [...]
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, only 19 percent of residents have returned to the poorest neighborhoods. That is not an accident. As a wealthy New Orleans resident told the Wall Street Journal in 2005, “we do not want them back”.
The Insurance industry is spending $1.4 million a day to fight reform. The right-wing is organizing “unruly mobs” to disrupt healthcare town meetings across America. The behavior is so obvious, obnoxious, and antidemocratic that reporters have written about it all over the country.
Anne Dunev urges us to do away with insurance entirely, because it costs too much and contributes nothing to healthcare. In fact, she feels that insurance companies by their nature are bad for healthcare.
She also shows that the pharmaceutical industry spends more on advertising and promotion than on research and development. Properly prescribed prescription drugs now kill 2 1/2 times as many people as car wrecks ever year.
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