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Category Archives: GREED
Is US democracy being bought and sold?
The Stream Al Jazeera Has money corrupted US politics beyond repair? The landmark Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruled that individuals working through corporations, unions, or independent political action committees, known as SuperPACs, could make unlimited … Continue reading
Working Poor: Almost Half Of U.S. Households Live One Crisis From The Bread Line
Don’t be fooled by the latest numbers released by the Labor Department reporting that unemployment has dropped to 8.3% due to a hiring surge … or the idea that the country’s problem is just a “crisis of confidence.” This is … Continue reading
Occupy stands firm – solidarity with Longview continues!
OCCUPY THE EGT! Don’t stop mobilizing until the workers declare victory! From Occupy The EGT: As you may have heard, EGT and ILWU are back at the bargaining table and scab work at the Longview grain terminal has stopped. Did … Continue reading
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
300 Chinese Workers at Apple/ Sony / Microsoft Global Partner Foxconn ‘Threaten Mass Suicide’ At XBox Plant
By Michael Rundle HUFFINGTON POST Around 300 Chinese workers who manufacture XBox consoles took to a factory roof and threatened bosses with mass suicide over a dispute about pay, unconfirmed reports have claimed. The workers were employed at the Foxconn … Continue reading
Wall Street Whines for Bonuses
By Jillian Berman HUFFINGTON POST For some on Wall Street, a less-than-stellar bonus is simply too much to bear. Brokerage executives at one Wall Street firm, Jefferies Group, have threatened to leave the company if their bonuses aren’t up to … Continue reading
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
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