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Category Archives: Labor
Theatrical Trailer: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
Lincoln: “Labor Is the Superior of Capital,” By Alan Grayson
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. . .”
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The Other Debt Crisis: Climate Debt
The climate crisis in Bolivia is not a headline or an abstraction – it is playing out in people’s lives in real time.
Melting glaciers are threatening the water supply of the country’s two biggest cities. Increasing droughts and floods are playing havoc with agriculture.
So it is no surprise that in climate negotiations, Bolivia is emerging as a leader in the global south – advancing both radical solutions and analysis that make rich countries distinctly nervous.
On this edition of Fault Lines, Avi Lewis travels to Bolivia to explore the country’s climate crusade from the inside.
It is the story of an emerging movement, based in the global south, raising questions about who owes what to whom in confronting the climate crisis.
And it is playing out in Bolivia’s epic landscape – from the tropical glaciers to the endless salt flats. A landscape that in normal times seems to mock the very idea that human beings can change the course of nature.
Bill Looman, Georgia Business Owner, Draws Fire For ‘Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone’
A west Georgia business owner has been deluged with calls and emails after posting signs on his company’s trucks that say he’s not hiring anyone until President Barack Obama leaves office.
A redneck small business owner in the deep south, who could have imagined that? He draped himself in the flag with his non subject related mention of military service, but failed to thump the bible while he was at it. What kind of Neoliberal Reactionary is he? [MSH]
Occupy Best Buy
Gingrich to OWS: Get A Job And Take A Bath
George Carlin: On Bankers
Wall Street Wankers – An Irishman Abroad
Privatization Nightmare: Five Public Services That Should Never Be Handed Over to Greedy Corporations
The justification for privatization is the old argument that private companies do everything better and more “efficiently” than government, and will find ways to cut costs. Over and over we hear that companies do everything for less cost than government. . . When government does something they don’t have to pay millions to someone at the top.
Private Not Public Interest
There is a fundamental conflict of interest between public and private. When things are privatized of course profit comes first, not public interest. Public functions are supposed to serve the public, us, We, the People. The ‘private’ in ‘privatization’ means that it is done for the private gain of a few. When a public function is privatized it means that instead of operating for the benefit of We, the People – the 99% – it is operated for the benefit of a few – the 1%.
Always Question Authority 