Category Archives: POLICY

Dilemmas: Smaller Bonuses for the Rich 1% and Motel Room Homes for Those The Rich Have Screwed

COMPANION PIECE: How The Rich Are Living with Smaller Bonuses & How Those They’ve Screwed Over Are Barely Managing To Survive: Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal (1% Bonus Withdrawal) By Max Abelson Bloomberg   Florida Homeless Students Increase (Barely Surviving) By Christine Armario Huffington … Continue reading

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LISTEN!!! Richard Wolff on Capitalism Part 1 of 2

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LISTEN!!! Richard Wolff on Capitalism Part 2 of 2

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Racist NYPD Is Out-Of-Control

STOP STOP AND FRISK!!!

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Corporations Are Not People

This week marks the second anniversary of the infamous Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC.  In a nutshell, Citizens United declared that corporations are people, and money is speech.  This opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate cash in U.S. … Continue reading

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Occupying a New Reality

One of the things I’ve loved the most about the Occupy movement is the position that we just don’t give a fuck what political analysts, pundits, and “experts” think or project about the “strategies” and tactics that this global revolution … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (1 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (2 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (4 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend! For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries … Continue reading

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The Decline of Labour Unions in the US and Its Devastating Effect on The Economy

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The Growing Militarisation of Police in the U.S. and Around the World

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The Death of Kim Jong-il and the Future of U.S. Relations with the Two Koreas

Christine Ahn from the Korea Policy Institute and the Global Fund for Women weighs in on how the United States has impacted and shaped the ongoing war between North and South Korea through it’s heavy military presence (the Korean peninsula … Continue reading

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The Real Terrorists

Last night I watched the documentary “The End of America,” based on Naomi Wolf’s 2007 book by the same name. The film follows Wolf on a lecture tour through which she draws a parallel between the steps used by Hitler, … Continue reading

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Proof Obama will sign NDAA 1031 Citizen Imprisonment Law in a few days

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The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face

By E.D. Kain Forbes If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations … Continue reading

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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

By Naomi Wolf The Guardian The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police … Continue reading

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CBS 60 Minutes : Congress Trading Stocks on Inside Info Part 2 of 2

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CBS 60 Minutes : Congress Trading Stocks on Inside Info Part 1 of 2

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Massive police action cracks down on Occupy Oakland

Police Raid Occupy Oakland Camp, By MALIA WOLLAN; Re-posted from The New York Times, November 14, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment downtown on Monday morning, making arrests and flattening … Continue reading

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Rags to Riches: Who Should Really Care?

Not the 99 percent. We’ve let the cheerleaders for the richest among us get away with myths about mobility for much, much too long. By Sam Pizzigati Too Much Mobility, apologists for America’s grand fortunes love to argue, trumps inequality. … Continue reading

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