http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/11/08-0
Shooting Ourselves: Mass Killings, Austerity, and the Breakdown of American Society
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/08-0
The LAX Shooting, Domestic Terrorism, and the NRA
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/08-4
Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/22-5
Pope Slams Rampant Inequality, 'Economy That Kills'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/26-9
Five Ways We Are Being Violated by Big Business
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/02
Austerity-Pushers Now Targeting Human Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-4
House Democrats and Republicans Mostly Agree on Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/13
The Republican War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/17-0
Economists Agree: US Inequality Is Killing the Economy
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/18
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You Will Be Shocked at How Ignorant Americans Really Are
What Americans don t know and don t understand is quite an obstacle to progress.
http://www.alternet.org/media/americas-information-inequality-least-shocking-its-economic-inequality
Why Does Congress Think It s OK for Working Americans to Go Hungry?
By Jerry Lanson
Alarming evidence that we live in a broken and declining society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36805.htm
It s Business That Really Rules Us Now
By George Monbiot
Corporate interests have captured the entire democratic process. No wonder so many have given up on politics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36823.htm
Approval Rating of US Congress at Four-Decade Record Low
A Gallup poll showed that the US Congress' approval rating has sunk to an all-time low of 9 percent, down from 11 percent during the government shutdown in October.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920822000090
Eternal austerity makes complete sense, if you are rich
Op-Ed
For David Cameron, cutting spending in a highly unequal society works because it doesn t affect those who matter to him. This used to be called class politics.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/eternal-austerity-makes-sense-if-rich-david-cameron
Elizabeth Warren on Social Security: "It s Values, Not Math"
Video and transcript
The suggestion that we have become a country where those living in poverty fight each other for a handful of crumbs tossed off the tables of the very wealthy is fundamentally wrong.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36917.htm
The 1% Are The Very Best Destroyers Of Wealth The World Has Ever Seen
By George Monbiot
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37003.htm
1 In 4 Europeans At Risk Of Poverty
125 million people in the EU were at risk of pverty or social exclusion. According to Eurostat, that is 24.8% of the population. Almost half of Bulgarians faced economic hardship and Greece had the highest poverty rate in the euro area at 34.6%
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-09/1-4-europeans-risk-poverty
Millionaires' Club: Most US Lawmakers Are Worth $1 Million-Plus
By Viveca Novak
Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012, according to disclosures filed last year by all members of Congress and candidates.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37342.htm
North Carolina Just Gave Millionaires A Tax Cut, Raised Taxes On The Poorest 900,000 Working Families
The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/14/3161521/north-carolinas-eitc-tax-hike-poor/
From Information Clearing House
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The Lostness of Man
Jason Flores Williams, Truthout: "The story of this life, this country, this world is a history of falsity masquerading as knowledge. We are muted explosions of failed and rejected prayers. Five thousand years of culture, a hungry child screaming on the kitchen floor banging pots and pans. Bam. Bam. Bam," writes Williams about the current state of our failing society.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19895-bam-bam-bam-the-lostness-of-man
Myths of Economic Statistics
Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org: While the US economy is slowly growing, our corporate focused structure continues to widen the gap of inequality and push Americans into deeper and more uncontrollable debt.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19958-myths-of-economic-statistics
Austerity Politics Doesn t Work
Sally Kohn, Yes! Magazine: Facts have been buried in a political era in which partisan ideology overrides reason. Take the case of "austerity politics." There is now conclusive evidence, both practical and theoretical, of the complete failure of austerity politics.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20412-the-facts-are-in-austerity-politics-doesnt-work
Dollarocracy: Corporate Cash in Politics
George Lavender, Making Contact: The cost of American democracy is the most expensive in the world. In the 2012 elections billions of dollars were spent on political campaigns. But there s a growing consensus that big business and wealthy individuals are buying power.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21306-dollarocracy-corporate-cash-in-politics
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How Big Business Targets Children
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/health-and-medical-1/childhood-under-siege.html
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