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Wall Street Tycoons : Why Are None Behind Bars?
Royal / Capitalist Banker series / mejuan.Why haven’t any Wall Street tycoons been sent to the slammer? The absence of what many would call justice stands out all the more because past financial crises always had their villains. by Kevin … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Corporate Corruption, Criminal Justice, Financial Crisis, Wall Street
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A Few Bad Acorns and the Right Wing Crusade
In defense of ACORN: The right-wing crusade against ACORN is a far bigger fraud than any misdeeds a few employees might have committed By Joe Conason / September 21, 2009 For many years the combined forces of the far right … Continue reading
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Tagged ACORN, Community Organizing, Obama Smear Campaign, Right Wing Media
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Just What We Needed: A New Cluster Bomb
What cynicism – “clean battlefield operation.” There is no reality left in those in the power of the military-industrial complex. I believe even Dwight Eisenhower, as reactionary as he was, would be astounded at the thinking and the behavior of … Continue reading
Engelhardt: For America, War Is Peace
Graphic: Source.Is America Hooked on War?By Tom Engelhardt / September 17, 2009 “War is peace” was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in “Newspeak,” the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 … Continue reading
The Shoe: ‘Out of Loyalty to Every Drop of Innocent Blood That Has Been Shed’
Why I threw the shoe I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents By Muntazer al-Zaidi / September 17, 2009 I am free. But my country is still … Continue reading
Many Ways Industrial Agriculture Is Making Us Sick
Runoff of waste from farm animals is said to be a source of pollutants in drinking water. Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times.Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls WellsBy Charles Duhigg / September 17, 2009 MORRISON, Wis. — All … Continue reading
World Hunger Spiralling Out of Control Because of Capitalist Profit System
Copyright: WFP/Rein Skullerud.UN reports 1 billion of the world’s people going hungryBy Jerry White / September 18, 2009 For the first time in history, more than one billion people, or nearly one in every 6 inhabitants of the planet, are … Continue reading
The Tea Party Parade: Shouting at Phantoms
Mark Williams speaking during a Tea Party Express rally at the Cape Buffalo Grille in Dallas, Texas, on Sept, 4, before heading to Washington, D.C. Photo: Matt Nager.Working Class ZeroBy Timothy Egan / September 16, 2009 The first nine years … Continue reading
If There Is a Future of Peace for Humankind, It Will Come From the Artists
Subject: Why Music? Welcome address to freshman class at Boston Conservatory given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at Boston Conservatory. “One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me … Continue reading
B. Lee: ‘Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore’
Thanks to Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog
