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Max Eternity, Truthout: 'Even after the ... hip, hip, hurrah of President Obama s ordered assassination of Osama bin Laden, a cornucopia of catastrophic socioeconomic horrors still face this nation... endless war, long-term unemployment, swelling prison populations and multiple years of record-breaking home foreclosures... But they won t be here to stay if a certain brilliant, black man of prophetic word and deed can help it - namely, Dr. Cornel West. West equates America s banking elite with gangsters and deplores President Obama s choice to surround himself with their minions... This well-heeled phalanx of criminals is, in West s view, to blame for many, if not most, of Americas current ills.'

http://www.truthout.org/dr-cornel-west-greetings-21st-century-prophet/1306877190



Secret Cash: The Worst Political Scandal of All

Michael Winship, Truthout: 'Give me a scandal, any scandal, and I ll show you how the corrosive influence of money on politics is at its root and makes what s bad even worse (okay, maybe not in the case of Anthony Weiner -- yet)... Citizens United and other court decisions that have unleashed a monster of unlimited and frequently anonymous private and corporate campaign cash against a nearly defenseless citizenry... The Greeks had a word for it - 'oligarchy' - political clout based on economic dominance.'

http://truthout.org/secret-cash-worst-political-scandal-all/1307291080



Why Washington Isn t Doing Squat About Jobs and Wages

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: 'The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why? Republicans don t want to do anything about jobs and wages... Democrats, meanwhile, don t want to admit the recovery has stalled.... But there s a third reason for Washington?s inaction. It s not being talked about - which is itself evidence of the problem. The unemployed are politically invisible. They don t make major campaign donations. They don t lobby Congress. There s no National Association of Unemployed People.'

http://truthout.org/why-washington-isnt-doing-squat-about-jobs-and-wages/1307250719



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