"The
theory is that the legacy of racist policy can be met with colorblind
policy that helps the poor. There's not much evidence that that theory
is working."
Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize: Robert Scheer
truthdig.com
The
deal with Iran is potentially an international game changer comparable
to Richard Nixon’s opening to Mao’s Red China and Ronald Reagan’s
overtures to Soviet leader
With
House and Senate negotiators locked in a fierce debate over how to cut
the deficit, along comes an eminently sensible idea from Senator Bernie
Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison: ***Stop using our tax dollars
to subsidize pollution.***
Tell Congress: Pass the "End Polluter Welfare Act" now!
The
most important website this weekend and in weeks to come -- on which
the hopes and fears of countless Americans are focused (and the
President's poll-ratings depend) -- isn't HealthCare.gov. It's
Amazon.com. Even if HealthCare.gov works perfectly, only 5 percent of
Americans are in the private health-insurance market to begin with. But
almost half of the 140 million Americans now shopping for holiday deals
are doing so online, up 20 percent from last year.
The irony
is most of what's being sold this holiday season is coming from Asia,
which leaves retail jobs as the largest and fastest-growing segment of
the U.S. workforce. Yet as online shopping takes over, where will
Americans find jobs in the future? The biggest reason holiday
deal-shopping is especially frenzied is so many Americans are already
stretched to the breaking point (65 percent are now living
paycheck-to-paycheck, up from 61 percent last year) that they're more
desperate than ever for bargains. And the main reason the President's
poll-ratings are falling isn't because of HealthCare.gov. It's because
the economy remains lousy for most people. It will likely remain that
way: As technology and globalization take over the economy, the U.S. has
no national strategy for creating more good jobs in America.
pic. White men tell the children that their ancestors 'settled' here. When the truth is that they 'invaded' us, they murdered us, and they raped us until we barely existed. Happy Thanksgiving.
US
- Will Gov. Tomblin be held accountable for this fiasco over a call to
end mountaintop removal? “Ask him why is it that he doesn’t want to
simply analyze this dust,” said Goldman Prize winner and Ohio Valley
Environmental Coalition community organizer Maria Gunnoe. “Why put a man
in jail because he delivered the toxic dust and ask to have it
analyzed?”
"Students
from the UBC Social Justice Centre are calling on EVERYONE to stand in
solidarity with the land defenders in Elsipogtog. An injunction has been
issued by the New Brunswick provincial court which effectively denies
Elsipogtog and their supporters their right as Canadian citizens to
protest. The RCMP are being used to protect private interests, using
force to silence peaceful protests".
Econ
101 - Part II of III
Reagan lowered the top tax rate from 70% to 28% A full 70% of the tax
cuts went towards making the rich richer... much richer and tripled
the debt. The problem with Reagan's tax cuts is he didn't pull out soon
enough, but that wasn't his plan, increasing the debt was.
#memegop
What
other explanation is there? Never forget that the very people in this
photo voted for ALL of Bush's budget-busting proposals (remember the
stimulus checks?) and only discovered
fiscal purity and hatred for the federal government the day Pres. Obama
was sworn in. It's truly reproachable.
Image by Occupy Democrats.
GAZPROM - The most irresponsible company of the year?
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November
30, 2013
"For possibly the first time in Canadian history, middle class
households were talking about the same kinds of concerns that the
Indigenous people of the land have been discussing for literally
centuries."
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