Noam Chomsky: Occupy Has Created Solidarity in the US (0)
5/17/12 •
By Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now! 15 May 12 Noam Chomsky says the Occupy movement has helped rebuild class solidarity and communities of mutual support on a level unseen since the time of the Great Depression. “The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn’t really exist in the country: communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces [...]
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The Stall Has Arrived (0)
5/06/12 •
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog The economy has stalled. Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the March number upward to 154,000, but that’s still abysmal relative to what’s needed). We need well over [...]
The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden (0)
5/05/12 •
By Gareth Porter, Truthout | Report A few days after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a “senior intelligence official” briefing reporters on the materials seized from bin Laden’s compound said the materials revealed that bin Laden had, “continued to direct even tactical details of the group’s management.” [...]
Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life (0)
5/04/12 •
By Henry A Giroux, Truthout Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence and punishment as both a media spectacle and a bone-crushing reality have become prominent and influential forces shaping American society. As the boundaries between “the [...]
Tax fallacies invented by the 1% (0)
5/04/12 •
We hear these claims often, even though they’re entirely false. An analysis of the facts should make that clear. (1) The Rich Pay Almost All the Taxes That’s simply not true. The percentage of total taxes paid by the very rich (the top 1%) is approximately the same as the percentage paid by middle class [...]
