The Best Reason for the Very Rich to be Paying a Lot More in Taxes
by Aimee Allison
on March 05, 2012
Before getting into the best reason, here are some of the usual -- and always good -- reasons. First of all, for every dollar the richest 1% earned in 1980, they've added three more dollars. The poorest 90% have added ONE CENT.
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Four Fiscal Phonies
by Paul Krugman, The New York Times
on March 02, 2012
Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama’s deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.”
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The Ghost and the Machine
by Kathy Kelly and the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
on March 01, 2012
Voices for Creative Nonviolence offers a first-hand account of the drone attacks - and the aftermath: Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal, that his father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled by computer.
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Video: Foreclose the Banks
by Aimee Allison
on March 01, 2012
This spring, the 99% is taking on Bank of America. For too long they’ve preyed on us — but now, we’re turning the tables. Instead of letting the bank foreclose on us, we’re going to foreclose on the bank. On February 29th , and March 15, April 15th and May 15th we will move our money, put our bodies on the line and bring their crimes to light. It time to break up the bank and create real alternatives.
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Hunger Strike at University of Virginia Reaches Day 10
by Eva McKend, Ms. Magazine Blog
on February 29, 2012
Twenty students at the University of Virginia are starving, but not only because they haven’t eaten in 10 days.
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"Stealing" Free Education? Homeless Mother Gets Jail Time For Sending Her Son to a Better School District
by Kristin Gwynne, Alternet
on February 29, 2012
Thirty-three-year-old Tanya McDowell enrolled her son in a Connecticut school district better than the one in which she lived. McDowell, who was homeless when prosecutors charged her with felony larceny charges for "stealing" an education that is free for others, may only have been trying to help her son find a life better than her own. But those efforts ended disastrously. Last week, she pleaded guilty to felony larceny. McDowell will likely spend five years in prison, and her son will be without his mother.
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Wikileaks releases "Global Intelligence Files" -- 5MM emails from private spook outfit Stratfor
by Cory Doctorow via BoingBoing
on February 27, 2012
Today, Wikileaks releases its "Global Intelligence Files," a trove of more than 5,000,000 emails from Stratfor, a Texas based "global intelligence" company. The dump includes emails detailing Stratfor's work with the US government on discrediting Wikileaks itself, as well as a lot of extremely dirty geopolitical laundry.
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VIDEO: Warren Buffett: ‘It Is A Myth’ That U.S. Corporate Taxes Are High
by Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress
on February 27, 2012
2012 GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to lay out his economic plan, reiterating his desire to cut the corporate tax rate in order to “restore America’s competitiveness.” During an interview on CNBC, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, in response to Santorum’s piece, noted that is is actually “a myth” that America’s corporate taxes are high. “Corporate taxes are not strangling American competitiveness,”
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6 Pathetic Right-Wing Attempts to Defend the Indefensible Citizens United (Debunked)
by Stephen Rosenfeld via Alternet
on February 24, 2012
Imagine this: in a week when the latest presidential campaign finance reports reveal a growing list of million-dollar donors to super PACs, right-wing bloggers and Republican lawyers are defending the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 Citizens United decisions as maligned by media and of course, liberals.
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Three Candidates that Deserve RootsAction's Support: Solomon, Kucinich and Lee
by RootsAction
on February 23, 2012
Lets face it: U.S. elections often pit heartless Republicans against spineless Democrats.But there are rare candidates of exceptional courage and compassion who can be counted on to fight – alongside RootsAction activists – for a fair economy, environmental sanity, civil liberties. . . and against amilitary machine that is draining our society while creating ever more enemies overseas. Today we want to tell you about three outstanding candidates for Congress: Norman Solomon, Dennis Kucinich, and Barbara Lee.
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