Phil Rockstroh, Commondreams.org “. . . the financial elite (and their political operatives) are arrayed in a defensive posture, even as they continue their global-wide, full-spectrum offensive vis-à-vie The Shock Doctrine. “Concurrently, […]
By RJ Eskow, ourfuture.org “Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people.” He did not go on to sing that […]
An articulate piece worth a complete read at Aljazeera. Tea Party Terminators by Cliff Schecter, President of Libertas, LLC and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. “. . . After its humble […]
Haig Simonian in Zurich, Financial Times, US presses Switzerland over secret accounts: Almost two years after Switzerland signed a landmark agreement with the US to identify certain bank customers, the two countries […]
Journalist/Commentator/Blogger Harvey Oberfeld provides excellent views about street disturbances currently troubling a number of poor British communities: UK Uprisings Now, France Last Year, Vancouver in June Not Just Thugs. Harvey O. says: […]
Opinion by Drew Westen, New York Times, Aug 6/11 “As I stood with my 8-year-old daughter, watching the president deliver his inaugural address, I had a feeling of unease. . . there […]
Oh, What a Tea Party! by Richard Reeves, Truthdig “. . . The big winners in the budget “deal” were the people who understood the least: the tea party folk, a minority, generally […]
Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Aug 01/11 “. . . So, months ago, when Washington embarked on a frenzied search for ways to reduce the massive U.S. deficit, a tax loophole that allowed […]
From The Atlantic July/August Ideas Issue, Dispatches – Food, by Corby Kummer: “[Las Vegas] a congenial city to set up shop and even raise a family. And restaurant workers who can’t afford […]
The Resolution Foundation, an independent research and policy organisation working to improve the lives of people with low-to-middle incomes: “The share of national income going to the bottom half of earners in […]
Annihilating Democracy with the Tea Party Commentary by Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, correspondent in the Washington office of DER SPIEGEL: Democracy depends on compromise and the American government depends on all branches […]
From Tomgram, July 26: China’s economy soars on one side of the planet (though with a multitude of half-hidden problems). . . On the other side of the same planet, from Greece […]
Bloomberg: Koch, Exxon Mobil Among Corporations Helping Write State Laws: Koch Industries Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) are among companies that would benefit from almost identical energy legislation introduced in state […]
Question are being asked now in the USA. Canadians should pay attention. Right wing influencers are also working in our country to advance the interests of plutocrats: From commondreams.org: How have the […]
Jim Hightower, a veteran progressive commentator in the USA, recently published From Democracy to Plutocracy at OtherWords.org. He discusses misuse of the term ‘conservative’ and his words are relevant to British Columbians as well. […]
By RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW, Campaign for America’s Future Selling the Middle Class Sell-Outhttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/53450699/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list
During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s—a scandal whose dimensions, by today’s standards, seem almost quaint—the banker Charles Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5 million he had spread […]
Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz writes about inequality in Vanity Fair, Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%. Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth […]
This follows my post of the Ralph Nader video. I have read much lately about the growing unfairness of income distribution in North America and the organized efforts of our richest citizens […]
In A Democracy, Freedom Of Assembly Trumps “Free Enterprise” by Leo Gerard Julia & David Koch It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone […]
Let's ask an expert.. Consider The House of EL’s analysis of “thought” as it functions among the AI and business…
If anything could keep sleep-deprived President Trump busy threatening new tariffs it is likely to be Europe’s decision to remove…
Hi Norm, I think you might find this book review, from the New York Review of Books, interesting. I think…
What’s so hilarious about twenty-first century geopolitics? The irrepressible analytical wit of Sarah Paine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDGrLRJhQI
Thanks for this article Norm. The BC Greens are breaking new ground this election by promising to introduce a wealth…