Thom Hartmann, Campaign for America's Future: 'Happy and blissful in their one percent paradise, the richest Americans think they can ignore how their policies have decimated the poor and the working-class,' writes Thom Hartmann as he takes a look at how the working class is losing quality of life at the hands of unregulated capitalism.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18093-were-all-being-poisoned-by-deregulated-capitalism
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Economist Richard Wolff is interviewed about the reckless abandonment practiced in today s economy and discusses strategies for protest.
http://truth-out.org/video/item/18121-taming-capitalism-run-wild
Murdering the Wretched of the Earth
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'The belief systems the oppressed embrace can be intolerant, but these belief systems are a response to the injustice, state violence and cruelty inflicted on them by the global elites. Our enemy is not radical Islam. It is global capitalism.'
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18223-murdering-the-wretched-of-the-earth
Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism
William I. Robinson, Truthout: 'We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world. We are facing a global crisis that is unprecedented, given its magnitude, its global reach, the extent of ecological degradation and social deterioration, and the sheer scale of the means of violence,' writes Robinson.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18280-global-capitalism-and-the-crisis-of-humanity
Crisis of Global Capitalism
Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: UC Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, discusses the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the financial, ecological and social crises wrought by this system.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18842-truthout-tv-interviews-william-i-robinson-about-the-crisis-of-global-capitalism
The New Global Capitalism and the War on Immigrants
William I. Robinson, Truthout: The present immigration 'reform' bill feeds the immigrant military-prison-industrial-detention complex, solidifies the criminalization of immigrants and the militarization of the border, and puts citizenship out of reach for one- to two-thirds of undocumented immigrants.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18623-the-new-global-capitalism-and-the-war-on-immigrants
Immigration "Bed Mandate" Requires 34,000 People Detained Each Day
Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Under the Obama administration, more undocumented immigrants have been deported than under any other president: 1.5 million people were deported as of last year, with the ACLU putting that figure as approaching 2 million deportations. That s an all-time record.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19706-immigration-bed-mandate-requires-34000-people-detained-each-day
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Postcard from the End of America: Cherry Hill
By Linh Dinh
With the economy tanking, thirty-six percent of Americans between 18 and 31 are still living with their parents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35855.htm
America s Gilded Capital
Moyers and Company
Video
The story of how Washington became an occupied city; its hold on reality distorted by greed and ambition.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35968.htm
Study Finds Wealth Gives Rise to a Sense of Entitlement and Narcissistic Behaviors
By Eric W. Dolan
'As a person's level of privilege rises, that person becomes increasingly self-focused, in a sense, becoming the center of their own world and worldview.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35966.htm
Elysium: When the Elite Ruling Class Makes Hell on Earth for the Masses
By Steven Jonas, MD
One doesn t have to imagine 2154 to see what life is like for many millions of humans, right now. For the future slum of Los Angeles in the movie was actually set in one of the present slums of Mexico City.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36029.htm
Richest one percent take home record share of US income in 2012
New analysis of IRS data finds that income gap has widened to its highest levels in a century.
http://is.gd/jHhDyx
Study: America s Public Pensions Are Even Deeper In Debt Than Previously Thought
Some funny bookkeeping practices mean that cities like Detroit face an even deeper public pension funding crisis.
http://is.gd/pirZYR
United State sets another food stamp record
Households on food stamps at new peak and more Americans live in poverty compared to the entire population of Spain.
http://is.gd/YmHsY0
Detroit Will be Democracy s Decisive Battle
By Glen Ford
Detroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating "the template for direct corporate rule."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36705.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Some Filthy Facts about the Rich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/26-0
The Leveraged Buyout of America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/26-2
Democracy vs. 'Wealthocracy': People Rally Against 'Next Citizens United'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/04-7
AIG Execs Got Bailout Bonuses, but Pensioners Get Cuts
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/10
President Obama: Deporter-in-Chief
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/05-3
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