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Wealth is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
The holiday season exerts a lot of pressure to spend what you don’t have and go deeper into debt in the name of “giving.” This year, let us all support each other to be financially responsible and engage in building wealth instead of destroying it.
Ratcheting up the Rhetoric on Iran
Nothing is certain except for death and taxes. But in campaign season, it’s awfully predictable that Democratic politicians will do a little chest-thumping about foreign policy. As the 2012 presidential contest approaches, the Obama administration is ratcheting up its rhetoric against Iran, right on cue.
Occupy the Food System
Farmers have been through this before — our lives and livelihoods falling under corporate control. It has been an ongoing process: consolidation of markets; consolidation of seed companies; an ever-widening gap between our costs of production and the prices we receive. Some of us are catching on, getting the picture of the real enemy.
The Rich are Profiting Like It’s 1929
No wonder the American people are confused — about the economy, the nation, the Middle East, the onrushing election, and everything else. People keep feeding them bad information.
Influence Peddler for President
Mea culpa, I misspoke, my bad. I stand corrected. I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has indeed gotten very wealthy by taking big bucks from such special interest outfits as IBM, Astra Zeneca, Microsoft, and Siemens in exchange for helping them get favors from federal and state governments.
We’re Not Even Paving a Road to Nowhere
The term “American transportation policy” is an oxymoron. The United States has no policy regarding the nation’s transportation networks, no strategic plan, and no capacity to carry one out. We harbor only competing special interests.
GOP Closets
No Execution For Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal will no longer be facing execution. He should be getting a new trial.
The Other 99 Percent: How the U.S. Compares
Occupy movements have now sprung up in at least 20 countries, and probably more. They all speak, in one way or another, for the other 99 percent. But the other 99 percent means different things in different places. In some countries, the other 99 percent are truly oppressed. In others, they manage reasonably well.
The Lineup: Week of Dec. 5-11, 2011
Jim Hightower lampoons a luxury tent Neiman Marcus is marketing to the uber-rich this holiday season.
