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Occupy Wall Street, Italy
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 [...]
Planet Greed vs Planet WeAreOne
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 [...]
It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold Trillions
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 [...]
Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
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 [...]
Drug Test the Unemployed? Is Hatch a Conservative, or not?
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 [...]
How Haiti Got This Way and Why We Owe Them Help
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 [...]
Forced Labor (Slavery?) in Florida!
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 [...]
Remembering the Preventable Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
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”.
Right-Wing Organizes Unruly Mobs to Prevent Healthcare Discussion
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.
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