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Six Proposals for Helping the 99% Solidarity, social justice and sharing open doors while tax cuts for the super-rich only lead to exploding inequality. double standards and cynicism. Access could replace excess. The empire could be superseded by the republic.
Public necessities (housing, education, work, health care, food, airwaves, water and the air) must remain public rights and not private privileges....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 6:33am PDT
Capitalism and the 1% By definition, capitalism is: An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production (industry, banks, technology), where through the process of market competition, production occurs for private profit — if something cannot be sold for a profit it is not produced.
In practice, private ownership has evolved into giant corporations, which monopolize production, markets, and government via campaign contributions, corporate lobbying (often legalized bribery) and promising po...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 2:01pm PDT
Obama Regime's Hypocrisy Re Jobs, Outsourcing and Free Trade Japanese closed markets, Korean high tariffs, Colombian
trade unionists murdered... etc...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 8:37am PDT
Rose Kennedy Would Have Allowed The Protesters To Camp On Her Lawn Maybe Mayor, you should think a little about what Rose Kennedy would do....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 4:56am PDT
Collapsing Debt Towers The crisis is 30 years old, not three years old. The causes of the crisis should be tracked down in the real goods-producing economy, not in the financial markets. The wildly proliferating financial markets did not drag goods-producing industry to the abyss. Rather these financial markets were kep alive up to the collapse of the speculative bubble by credit-financed demand. The financial crisis changes into a state debt crisis....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 5:47am PDT
Ed Schultz Co-opts Occupy Wall St. for Democratic Party! Last night while I was watching MSNBC...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 4:02pm PDT
Occupy Wall Street: Protesters arrested 900--Bankers 0. We are the 99% The Labor hierarchy is concerned about the influence the Occupy movement might have on the Unions' rank and file and will enter the Occupy movement in order to temper it, derail it and send it in to the Democratic Party as they did with the Madison events. The Occupy movement should beware the hierarchy and Labor's "official" representatives and welcome the rank and file worker....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 1:56pm PDT
Ed Schultz Co-opts Occupy Wall St. for Democratic Party! Last night while I was watching MSNBC...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 8:00am PDT
Learning Nothing in 80 Years The crisis began in the US where the government became heavily indebted after September 11, 2001 in the war against terror and where property owners, banks and hedge funds long lived openly on credit. Now banks and hedge und unhinge whole states. The German government was laughed at when it prohibited short-selling in 2010....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 4:50am PDT
The War At the Port Of Longview, Washington And the ILWU 
A major labor war is going on at the Washington port of Longview. A multi-national conglomerate EGT is seeking to bust the ILWU and turn the terminal into a Wal-Mart type operation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 11:06am PDT
Philippine Airline workers intensify protest actions 
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) today asserted that Philippine Airlines (PAL) President Jaime Bautista’s announcement that they no longer acknowledge Gerry Rivera and Bong Palad as union officers exposes union busting as the real aim of outsourcing. “Truly a fish is caught by its mouth. Actually PAL is not just recognizing me and Palad as union officers but 62% of PALEA’s leadership and 70% of its membership who have been illegally lockout and terminated. Outsourcing th...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 6:14am PDT
Occupy Demands And Civil Disobedience Guidelines 
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage....
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:04am PDT
Are Kaiser Employees in Downey working on top of a Nuclear Reactor? 
New documents have been discovered that show that there was
radioactive waste that was disposed of on the Downey Property in
Southern California.
This is now the site of a Kaiser Hospital complex....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 4:51pm PDT
ILWU Stands Up Again Against Anti-Union Attacks Corporations Try To Break the Unions at Washington and Oregon Ports. ILWU Fights Back!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 12:58pm PDT
Health And Safety Threatened At Pfizer: Stop Injuring Biotech Workers 
Health and safety is threatened for Pfizer biotech workers and the public. A rally was held by an injured Pfizer biotech worker Becky McClain at the Groton CT laboratories and she talks about the situation for biotech workers at the company. Other CT workers talk about their struggle for justice...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 5:57am PDT
Is Capitalism Devouring Its Children? The state was extorted by the banks. Bailing out the banks was regarded as without alternative. Disadvantaged population groups bear the consequences of a protection of the creditors and an extreme public indebtedness.. Rating agencies should become public institutions and system-relevant banks dismantled.. Growth- and stability funds should be established as the credit-givers of last resort....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 5:29am PDT
Stagnation as a Trend-Life with Satiated Markets, Stagnating Economies and Reduced Work 45 years ago JKGalbraith was shocked at the public squalor alongside privgate affluence. in 2008-10 trillions were given to banks and Wall St so private losses became public losses. By relieving corporations of wage costs, non-wage labor costs and taxes, neoliberal supply strategy worsened growth and employment. The growth phase moves into a stagnation phase. Stagnation cannot be annulled, only mitigated by increasing wages, mass demand and purchasing power. Reducing working hours is central ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 5:25am PDT
Obama Taxes the Rich for the Wrong Reasons President Obama may have opened Pandora's box with his latest tax-the-rich rhetoric, but he'll try to keep the lid half-shut.
Truly informing the public about just how rich the rich are — and just how much their taxes have been lowered over the decades — would certainly cause working people to demand much more from the wealthy than Obama is. Equally important to what is being demanded is where the new tax money is to go. Working people would prefer that Obama put the deficit on the back bur...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 8:52pm PDT
The Truth About "Class War" in America According to the myth, higher profits lead to greater investment and more jobs. In truth, higher profits lead to speculation on foreign currencies and corporations buying back their own stock....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 6:51am PDT
Chavez's health, the 2012 elections and the future of the Venezuelan revolution The Bolivarian revolution...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 12:14pm PDT
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