Category Archives: Justice
Fischer: The Tea Party Ended Slavery In America
Robertson On Occupy Wall Street “Clowns”
Hartmann: We are the 99% – now, let’s get to work
We are the 99%
Banking Has Become an Oligopoly Instead of a Competitive Business — And That’s Really Bad News for Us 99%
Banking is not really a competitive industry. In reality, it’s more like an oligopoly — a scenario in which an industry is controlled by a small number of firms . . . Because they aren’t really a competitive industry, they can get away with huge cost v. returns gaps . . . We’re all familiar with the term “Too Big To Fail,” which sums up what happens nowadays to the biggest banks even when they commit fraud against consumers, poison them with toxic products, grossly neglect their duties to shareholders, and blow up the economy. They are rescued with public money . . . The alternative is to find a credit union or small bank, if for no other reason than to give your support to local businesses and to invest in Main Street. Read more . . .
Documentary: “The Canary Effect”
This documentary is a MUST WATCH!
The grim legacy of America’s treatment of its native peoples is explored in detail in this documentary. Filmmakers Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman take the perspective that if one is to define “genocide” as the a deliberate effort by a government to exterminate a people, then the United States is clearly guilty of the crime given their actions against America’s indigenous population over the past 300 years . . .
Bill O’Reilly vs. Tavis Smiley & Cornell West
Matt Barber Bravely Reveals The “Glee” Conspiracy
It is amazing how unsettling tearing down the walls
of homophobic prejudice is to the religious bigots! [MSH]
Paul Krugman, “Panic of the Plutocrats”
. . . the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called “economic royalists,” not the people camping in Zuccotti Park . . . The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is . . . [all Street’s Masters of the Universe] . . . have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose.
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