Category Archives: GOVERNMENT

State Of The Ocean: ‘Shocking’ Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress

Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 by meganwilson

By Travis Donovan HUFFINGTON POST If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming, an expert panel of scientists warns in an … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, ENVIRONMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, FOOD, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, Health, POLICY, RESOURCES | Leave a comment

Want To Pay Higher Prices with Lower Quality? Privatize!

Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 by meganwilson

Toll Road Privatization: As Ohio Considers It, Indiana Serves As A Cautionary Tale By Dave Jamieson HUFFINGTON POST what can’t be denied is that the road is getting more expensive to travel on. And no one knows how expensive it … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, GREED | Leave a comment

SOLUTIONS: Moody’s, S&P Could Be Charged With Fraud For Role In Crisis

Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 by meganwilson

REUTERS U.S. regulators could file civil fraud charges against some credit-rating agencies for their role in developing mortgage-bond deals that helped bring about the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The Journal said … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY | Leave a comment

Global Commodity Prices Only Getting Higher This Decade: Report

Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 by meganwilson

REUTERS PARIS (Gus Trompiz) – World commodity prices will keep up their relentless push higher this decade compared to previous years, supported by burgeoning demand for food and fuel as well as knock-on effects from energy costs, the FAO and … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, FOOD, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, RESOURCES | Leave a comment

SOLUTIONS: Progressives Demand Action From Senate Democrats

Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by meganwilson

Will Democrats propose a major jobs investment bill, fight for it, rally the public around it, bring it to a vote, and dare Republicans to vote against it? Or will they pre-emptively capitulate before the fight even begins? Chuck Shumer … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, POLICY, PROTESTS, SOLUTIONS | Leave a comment

Obama 2012: Courting The Greed

Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 by meganwilson

Obama Seeks To Win Back Wall Street Cash By Nicholas Confessore NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT, GREED | Leave a comment

Hillary Clinton Warns Africa Of ‘New Colonialism’ … Joining the Colonialism of Corporate America

Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 by meganwilson

CIO!:  Clinton clearly needs to read the True Cost of Chevron:   Hillary Clinton Warns Africa Of ‘New Colonialism’ By Matthew Lee HUFFINGTON POST LUSAKA, Zambia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned Africa of a … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, EMPIRE, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY | Leave a comment

WE ARE BEING LIED TO

Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by meganwilson
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITALISM, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY, PROTESTS | Leave a comment

IMPACT OF WAR & CONFLICT SPENDING ON WOMEN & POVERTY

Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Eliza

Panel on Women-Poverty-Crises-Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Council 17 3 June 2011 IMPACT OF WAR & CONFLICT SPENDING ON WOMEN & POVERTY Beatrice Fihn, Reaching Critical Will – WILPF www.reachingcriticalwill.org According to the new report released by Stockholm International … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, Health, INTERNATIONAL, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

The Sky Really Is Falling

Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by meganwilson

By Chris Hedges truthdig I’d like people to go to climatedirectaction.org and sign up … We are going to be issuing calls for people to be involved in civil disobedience. I’d like people to join in this campaign against the … Continue reading →

Posted in CAPITALISM, ENVIRONMENT, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY | Leave a comment