- “…it seems that our remedies are instinctively those which aggravate the sickness: the remedies are expressions of the sickness itself“. --Thomas Merton
- 11 New Items including:
- Ghost of the New Deal Haunts Democrats' Agenda, but It's Time to Summon FDR
- The Betrayal of America's Middle Class Was a Choice, Not an Accident
- The Game-changing Implications of Bain v. MERS
- The Right Wing Shafts Our Veterans
- Where Are the US Jobs? Ask the Corporate Cash Hoarders,
- U.S. Income Inequality Worse Now Than In 1774
- The Mismeasure of All Things
- Bill Moyers | Chris Hedges on Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones'
- Why It Matters: Wall Street regulation and reform
- Corporatism is Killing America
- Poverty Rate Remains Steady While Income Inequality Grows
David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Chris Britt
Ghost of the New Deal Haunts Democrats' Agenda, but It's Time to Summon FDR, Richard D Wolff, Truthout
- Because they developed no effective counterstrategy to affirmatively defend what the business community and the rich assaulted, Democrats lost parts of their electoral base and, thus, strengthened the Republicans. Keeping FDR's achievements away from their 2012 convention marked another step in the Democrats' decline.
- These Words Of Warning From FDR Still Ring Eerily True Today
- Why It Matters: Wall Street regulation and reform
The Betrayal of America's Middle Class Was a Choice, Not an Accident, Amy B Dean, Truthout
- The outsourcing of good jobs, the elimination of pensions, rampant home foreclosures; skyrocketing higher education costs and mounting debt: Given these stark realities, the American middle class seems to be sinking fast. The renowned reporting team of Donald Barlett and James Steele insists it is no accident.
- Corporatism is Killing America
The Game-changing Implications of Bain v. MERS, Ellen Brown, Huffington Post
- Two landmark developments on Aug. 16 give momentum to the growing interest of cities and counties in addressing the mortgage crisis using eminent domain.
- Fixing the Mortgage Mess
- How Wall Street Gutted Our Schools and Cities
The Right Wing Shafts Our Veterans, Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future
- In one final vile act before adjournment for the elections, Senate Republicans used a point of order to block passage of the Veteran’s Jobs Act, which would have provided a modest $1 billion to give work to the more than one in 10 veterans who are unemployed. This is disgraceful politics.
- Good Jobs First: No Grand Bargain Without A Jobs Trigger
- Where Are the US Jobs? Ask the Corporate Cash Hoarders
Where Are the US Jobs? Ask the Corporate Cash Hoarders, Moira Herbst, Guardian UK
- The sorry facts are these: job growth is still half of what is needed to keep up with population growth. Meanwhile, more than 14% of the US workforce is unemployed, underemployed or discouraged from looking for work.
- Corporate tax breaks won't boost the economy. If unemployment is to fall, giant companies must invest in job creation
- Obama’s Vision versus Economic Reality
- Mitt Romney on "Freeloaders," Mideast, and Why He's Scared of the Women on 'the View"
- Paul Krugman | The Optimism Cure
U.S. Income Inequality Worse Now Than In 1774, Harry Bradford, Huffington Post
- The American colonies were exceptionally egalitarian, compared to both other nations at the time and the U.S. today. And their data even factors in slavery.
- Income inequality today is worse even than it was during the Roman Empire
- Bill Moyers | Chris Hedges on Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones'
- The Mismeasure of All Things
Ken Catalino
The Mismeasure of All Things, Steven Stoll, Orion
- We're all familiar with Gross Domestic Product, the measure of national income, as a way of framing the success of a nation and its individuals. But Steven Stoll argues that there are better ways to measure--ways that value society's connectedness to nature, instead of asking, "What has this salt marsh done for me lately?"
- How GDP distorts economic reality
- Bill Moyers | Chris Hedges on Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones'
- The Collapsing US Economy And The End Of The World
Bill Moyers | Chris Hedges on Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones' Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company
- There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed.
- Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor
- Mitt Romney on "Freeloaders," Mideast, and Why He's Scared of the Women on 'the View"
Why It Matters: Wall Street regulation and reform, Daniel Wagner, Associated Press / Asbury Park (NJ) Press
- Four years after the financial crisis, the economic recovery remains painfully slow.
- The debate over banking rules is, at its core, a dispute about how to prevent another economic cataclysm.
Corporatism is Killing America, Rob Kall, OpEdNews
- They have already killed people. They have already put millions of people, millions of family into havoc, chaos, misery and ruin.
- How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps
- Walmart did WHAT now?
Poverty Rate Remains Steady While Income Inequality Grows, Theresa Riley, Bill Moyers & Company
The number of people living in poverty is the highest the Census Bureau has ever recorded, but when will rhetoric give way to results?
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November 5, 2012 | In case you haven’t noticed (I sure haven’t), we’re in the midst of an economic recovery — one where the top 1% has gobbled up 93% of it, according to economist Emmanuel Saez. Here’s a handy little chart to see who the One Percent’s "legal enablers" — aka congressional legislators — truly are. Find your district, help your friends find theirs as well, and rock the vote!
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November 1, 2012 | Poll after poll has shown that the public rejects the millionaire-oriented, tax-cutting, government-slashing austerity plan known as “Simpson Bowles.” And yet politicians in both parties keep trying to force it through the legislative process under the banner of a “Grand Bargain.” Word is they're going to try again, either during the lame-duck session or when the new Congress convenes in January.
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October 19, 2012 | The One Percent is not only increasing their share of wealth — they’re using it to spread millions among political candidates who serve their interests. Example: Goldman Sachs, which gave more money than any other major American corporation to Barack Obama in 2008, is switching alliances this year; their employees have given $900,000 both to Mitt Romney’s campaign and to the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Why? Because, says the Wall Street Journal, the Goldman Sachs gang felt betrayed by President Obama’s modest attempts at financial reform.
