Mother Jones on the Plutocracy Game

ARTICLES YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE FIRST TIME AROUND BUT MISSED— Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About How screwing unions screws the entire middle class. By Kevin Drum | MOTHER JONES | March/April 2011 Issue Read more: MoJo’s Andy Kroll is in Wisconsin, [1] follow his updates. Plus: The 10 richest members of Congress, [...]

A July Fourth Shame On The Founders

Editors’ Note: We tend to have a far less glowing image of the Founders than McGovern, who, after all, has spent most of his life as an active part of the capitalist inteligence services, but we appreciate his courage in standing for his convictions. ________________________________ By Ray McGovern— •••  Yes, that was I standing before the [...]

Killing the healers with impunity

If the corruption of American politicians makes you sick, take heart: those in Brazil and other parts are not much better, as the condition is systemic and fully transnational. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife,  Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva,  were shot from ambush on May 24,  2011 near their home in [...]

Soft-powering Cuba

Regime-Change in a Box The malicious intrigues and hypocrisy never stop in Washington and the Republic of Miami to topple socialist Cuba, or damage the socialist project enough to insure a return to full-fledged capitalism, or something in between, as the “Chinese road.”  The next decade will be critical for the people of Cuba if [...]

Freedom Rider: The Evil of Two Lessers

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war,” but he abandons core Democratic programs “at the first sign of Republican resistance.” As a consequence the GOP, which has fought and schemed for decades to “starve the beast” by cutting social programs while [...]

Security Grifters Partner-Up on Sinister Cyber-Surveillance Project

by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Last week, the White House released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, a macabre document that places a premium on “public safety” over civil liberties and constitutional rights.

Typical: Obama now betrays whistleblowers

Prosecutions Up, Transparency Down By LINDA GREENE Teresa Chambers is the luckiest whistleblower in the United States. She lost her job as the first woman chief of the U.S. Park Police after she told the media in 2004 that the department was below the number required to perform the job adequately. She sued, and in [...]

Is human nature doomed, as conservatives claim?

June 29, 2011 By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall See also related article: Human Nature—How the media whitewash the face of capitalism Chimps grooming each other. What would Ayn Rand think? This is the first of two articles exploring the age-old Human Nature debate and the question of whether human beings are capable of achieving true participatory [...]

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