The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Until Republicans actually adopt progressive policies and make them their own, like Dwight D. Eisenhower did in the 1950s, there s nothing they can do to make themselves look like they are the party of everyday working people.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20698-goodies-for-the-rich-pennies-for-the-poor
Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Increases in payroll taxes, opposition to the use of eminent domain to slow foreclosures, the implementation of Detroit bankruptcy to steal from public workers' pensions and the increase of repression against those who protest capitalism s depredations indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20550-capitalism-and-democracy-year-end-lessons
The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Ruth Rosen, openDemocracy: The US Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and their children are the poorest people in America, but strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate and have been absorbed into abstract "needy families."
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20754-the-war-on-women-the-newly-invisible-and-undeserving-poor-in-america
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Jeff Faux, Foreign Policy in Focus: Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20728-nafta-at-20-state-of-the-north-american-worker
The Political Economy of Predatory Capitalism
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The world is returning to the predatory laissez-faire capitalism that immiserated millions in the early 20th century and is predicated on neoliberal *voodoo economics* void of empirical reference.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21138-the-political-economy-of-predatory-capitalism
And So They Fall: Unions and Workers
Rowan Wolf, Cyrano s Journal Today: The goal in the pushback against unions has been to create a borderless world for goods and finance while building fences with razor wire to keep workers in place.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21320-and-so-they-fall-unions-and-workers
Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal
Joseph Natoli, Truthout: We cannot right our upside-down ship of state as long as oppressed and oppressors share the same dark dreams and values.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21139-dark-affinities-liberal-and-neo-liberal
The Financialization of Capitalism
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism, a stage of capitalism that cannot be reversed without developing new methods of public provision in housing, education, health, pensions and the other sources financialization has used to create profit.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21383-costas-lapavitsas-discusses-the-financialization-of-capitalism
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Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion
By shuffling his company stock in and out of more than 30 trusts, he's given at least $7.9 billion to his heirs while legally avoiding about $2.8 billion in U.S. gift taxes since 2010, according to calculations based on data in Adelson's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
http://www.moneynews.com/Personal-Finance/Accidental-Tax-Break-Wealthiest-Americans/2013/12/17/id/542255
Who Owns Your Congressman?
Here s a look at which industries have given the most to which parties.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/owns-congressman.html
Barack Obama and the Legacy of American Capitalism
By Charles Sullivan
Democracy is the antithesis of capitalism! But capitalism is the product the U.S. government, the Pentagon, and the commercial media are marketing to us as democracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37205.htm
Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than $20,000 Last Year
By Bryce Covert
Nearly 40 percent of all workers in the country made less than $20,000 last year, more than half of all workers made less than $30,000.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37243.htm
Capitalism in Crisis: Who are the REAL *Takers*?
By Bernard Weiner
There s an internal time-bomb inside this dysfunctional economic system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37276.htm
Obama Trade Deal A 'Neoliberal Assault' To Further Corporate 'Domination'
Video
*It s designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity," Chomsky said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37357.htm
FTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.
http://fpif.org/nafta-20-model-corporate-rule/
From Information Clearing House
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America s Greediest: The 2013 Top Ten
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-2
The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth in the Past Five Years
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/30-0
Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/13-4
NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/15-5
It s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Hikes for Working Families
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/01/16
27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-10
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Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/john-w-whitehead/government-of-the-rich-by-the-rich-for-the-rich/
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