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Commentary :: Economy

MLK Economics

How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment and foreclosure.
Schooled at Crozer Theological Seminary in the teachings of the Protestant Social Gospel movement, King's theological vision included an economic critique. In a November 1956 sermon, King presented an imaginary letter from the apostle Paul to American Christians, which stated, "Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes… God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty."

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Announcement :: Right Wing

Impeach Justice Roberts!

to sign the petition to impeach Chief Justice John Roberts, click on

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Commentary :: Economy

The President's Leadership Challenge: A Call to Bold Action

Mr. President, there has never been any doubt you are a brilliant orator. And it is also clear that nothing you have said will cause the Republicans in the Senate to break their stranglehold on progress, using threats of filibusters to destroy the majority rule that is the hallmark of every other democracy in the world. People are asking for results they can understand.

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News :: Culture

VIDEO: J. D. Salinger Dies at Age 91

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in "The Catcher in the Rye," became a symbol for the angry and rebellious modern teenager and of adolescent angst. Sales of the book, according to the Associated Press, have reached more than 60 million copies worldwide.

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Commentary :: Economy

"The World Crisis and Beyond" - 177p pdf file

"The World Crisis and Beyond" conference was held in Brussels, Oct 28-Nov 1, 2009.
Elmar Altvater, Michael Brie, Hilary Wainwright and Rick Wolff contributed at the Rosa Luxemburg conference.

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Commentary :: Right Wing

Keith Olbermann on Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling

The next nine men and women on the Supreme Court will get there not because of their judgement nor even their politics. They will get there because they were appointed by purchased presidents and confirmed by purchased Senators. This is what John Roberts did today. This is a Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual Democracy is left in this Democracy. It is government of the people by the corporations for the corporations. It is the Dark Ages. It is our Dred Scott. I would suggest a revolution but a revolution against the corporations? The corporations that make all the guns and the bullets? Maybe it won't be this bad. Maybe the corporations legally defined as human beings, but without the pesky occasional human attributes of conscience and compassion maybe when handed the only keys to the electoral machine, they will simply not re-design America in their own corporate image. But let me leave you with this final question: After today who's going to stop them?

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News :: Education

STUDENT STRIKE

STUDENT STRIKE WELCOME TO STUDENT STRIKE THIS IS THE STUDENT STRIKE SITE FOR WORLDWIDE COORDINATION WE WANT TO MOVE TOGETHER WORLDWIDE AND COORDINATE THE STUDENT STRIKE TOGETHER. SOON AS POSSIBLE WE WILL LINK ALL THE CAOUNTRIES WHERE STUDENTS ARE STRIKING World http://united-sign.com http://studentstrikeworld.wordpress.com/student-strike Germany http://streik.unileaks.org http://bildungsstreik.net for information please e-mail to: student-strike@united-sign.com tags: “STUDENT STRIKE” STUDENT STRIKE STUDENT STRIKE

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Commentary :: Economy

Lessons From America's Lost Decade

"The fact that the United States has embraced "voodoo economics" for 30 years and refuses to recognize the statistical evidence of Reaganomics' abject failure suggests that the larger lesson of this era –– is that the U.S. political process is dysfunctional." "Whoever controls the past controls the future." (George Orwell) Crisis and chance are represented by the same Chinese letter. When R. Emanuel, T. Geitner, L. Summers and B. Bernanke define crisis and chance, we are in the perilous world of elite democracy, doublespeak and selective remembrance. In a thought-provoking age, we have lost the ability to think. (M. Heidegger) and the ability to mourn and remember.
In a world of consumerism and one-dimensional vulgar materialism (E.Bloch), we have lost memory and hope, festivity and fantasy. (Harvey Cox). Bush Jr and Clinton are not friends of Haiti but examples of rewriting history. Roosevelt railed against "economic royalists," "banksters" and "moneychangers." We need an FDR, not a Boris Yeltzin! to read Robert Parry's article published on http://www.truthout.org January 15, 2010, click on

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