A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?

Noam Chomsky
On the History of the US Economy in Decline

Don’t Buy the Spin: How Cutting the Pentagon’s Budget Could Boost the Economy

more than double that of China, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and Germany COMBINED

How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform

Matt Taibbi ……It’s bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it – with a big assist from Congress and the White House.

Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity

PAUL KRUGMAN —- concentration of income at the top has reached levels not seen since 1929….another depression was imminent? …… Well, whaddya know?

Social security is not going broke

David Cay Johnston — it took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans out of poverty

The real job creators

Joan Walsh — Consumers, not the wealthy, are the key to an economic rebound, and GOP austerity is shackling them

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