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- Still Banking on Fraud
- Bleakonomics
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
Petar Pismestrovic
The Two Roads out of Recession, Shamus Cooke, Workers Compass
- There are only two ways out of this recession, the path sought by corporations and the one that will benefit working people. The two roads cannot be traveled on simultaneously. Nor can working people expect leaders of national labor unions or national liberal organizations to pick the correct path, let alone make one concrete step in any progressive direction.
- Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression
Still Banking on Fraud, William K. Black, Dollars & Sense
The Bush and Obama administrations have made an already critically flawed financial system even worse. The result is that the banking industry’s future is bad for banking, terrible for the real economy, horrific for the public—and wonderful for the top executives at the largest banks.
Reforms Fail to address the “control fraud” that caused the financial crisis.
Bleakonomics, Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York Times | NY
- A review of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ~ Naomi Klein
- It’s not the conspiracies that wreck the world but the series of wrong turns, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses that add up.
Union-Busting Is Theft -- a Weapon of Class Warfare from Above, Joshua Holland, AlterNet
- Union-busting allows bosses to rig the labor market in their favor.
- The War on Public Employees
- 12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin
Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression, Mark Ames, AlterNet
- The DC-Wall Street power circuit, with a big assist from the corporate media, is blindly pushing an agenda that could lead to massive social upheaval.
- Austerity - a sure path to a bad economy
- Citizens must be better educated about U.S. economic option
- Anti-Austerity Alliance Wins in Illinois
Restore the Original Wealth Tax, Polly Cleveland, Dollars & Sense
- The property tax is intrinsically the most progressive tax we have.
- Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression
Michael Moore: "America Is NOT Broke", Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com/truthout
- 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true.
- Chris Hedges on "The Death of the Liberal Class"
February budget deficit highest ever for any month, Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press/Google
- The widening deficit reflects the impact of the tax-cut package President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans brokered in December.
- Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression.
“My Fear is that Climate Change is the Biggest Crisis of All”, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Naomi Klein Warns Global Warming Could Be Exploited by Capitalism and Militarism
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Almost a year ago, the Guardian wrote that Britain was taking "a leap into the political unknown" when the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats "formed the first full coalition government in Britain since 1945." Many wondered if the new government would chart a unique course in history, pursuing policies that blended those of the old-line conservatives with those of modern progressives. Unfortunately, the resulting Cameron-Clegg government pursued a very old path -- that of balancing budgets on the backs of working class people rather than asking the rich to pay their fair share. The coalition government pushed for "the sharpest cuts to public spending since World War II," which would cost the country more than a half million jobs, dramatically cut back on social welfare spending, and raise the pension age to 66 by 2020, "four years earlier than planned." These cuts come on top of massive education cuts that doubled or tripled tuition for many students, and which broke one of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's own campaign promises. 
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