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Salvatore Babones – Inequality and Growth

As the recession that began in late 2007 drags through its sixth year, people are finally starting to ask if maybe inequality is to blame. After all, slow growth throughout the 2000s was associated with rising inequality, and inequality today is greater than it has ever been. Perhaps America’s falling …

Greg Palast – I UPSET MY LEAST FAVOURITE BIG FAT GREEK MINISTER

Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Newsnight and in The Guardian. Palast eats the rich and spits them out. Catch his reports and films atwww.GregPalast.com, where you can also securely send him your documents marked, “confidential”. It wasn’t too difficult picking out the …

Experts: Fed’s Push for More Wiretapping a Recipe for Security Disaster

A group of security experts have issued a report on Friday warning that the FBI’s wiretapping expansion proposal is “unwise, ineffective” and “poses serious security risks.” As the New York Times‘ Charlie Savage reported, the FBI plan would entail a “sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using …

Ralph Nader – The Age of Corporate Treason

Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military. Yet these corporate goliaths work …

Mike Adams – Angelina Jolie part of a clever corporate scheme to protect billions in BRCA gene patents, influence Supreme Court decision

(NaturalNews) Angelina Jolie’s announcement of undergoing a double mastectomy (surgically removing both breasts) even though she had no breast cancer is not the innocent, spontaneous, “heroic choice” that has been portrayed in the mainstream media. Natural News has learned it all coincides with a well-timed for-profit corporate P.R. campaign that has been planned for …

George Monbiot – La Nouvelle Trahison des Clercs

In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published a piercing attack on the intellectuals of his day. They should, he argued in La Trahison des Clercs (the treason of the scholars) act as a check on popular passions(1). Civilisation, he claimed, is possible only if intellectuals stand in opposition to …

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Peter Hart – The Sick Madness of Tom Friedman’s Culture

According to reports of the interrogation of  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers weremotivated in part by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And this has the Timescolumnist scratching his head about the problem with Muslims: New York Times columnist Tom Friedman doesn’t understand how on earth the Boston bombers could rationalize their act of violence–and …