World-News

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''Given the frustration at impacting the grip of the plutocracy on the US and our government, let s start off with the subtitle of your book: 'Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.' What are some of the activities individuals can do to create change, because the oligarchs have control of Congress, for the most part, and the backing of a one-vote majority on the Supreme Court?''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9721-how-the-1-percent-and-transnational-corporations-hijacked-our-political-system-and-what-to-do-about-it



1% Pathologies

Chris Hayes, Crown Publishers: ''Nearly all of the commentary on America s growing inequality focuses on the ways in which skewed distribution of income and wealth is bad for those on the bottom of the pyramid: the way it leads to stagnating wages and competition for scarce positional goods; the way it alienates the middle and working classes and the poor. But we largely ignore the effect of extreme inequality that is, in the long run, the most destructive: the way it makes those at the top of the social pyramid worse.''

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/9813-one-percent-pathologies

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Crooked Elections, Crooked Markets, and Crooked Numbers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/06/12/283-crooked-elections-crooked-markets-and-crooked-numbers/

Romans 13 and Obeying the Government
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance293.html

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Hubris as the Evil Force in History

By Paul Craig Roberts

Washington asserts the superiority of the American way and the right to impose it on the rest of the world. Hubris is in full flower despite its defeats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31567.htm



Poorer US Citizens Live Five Years Less Than Affluent Countrymen

By Amy Hodges

The United States still trails many of the world s countries when it comes to life expectancy, and its poorest citizens live approximately five years less than more affluent persons, according to a new study.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31682.htm



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