World-News

Bill Moyers, TomDispatch: There is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20583-the-great-american-class-war-plutocracy-vs-democracy

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Gunfighter Nation
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/12/13-0

As Congress Targets Food Stamps, Working Poor Get Whacked Again
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/28-0

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Global Leadership: It s Broke and it Needs Fixing

By Anthony Evans

We are constantly brainwashed by our trusted leaders with the illusions of freedom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37122.htm



Is America becoming a plutocracy?

More than half of all members of Congress are millionaires. While the US is faced with unprecedented issues surrounding unemployment, food stamps, social assistance and minimum wage rates, it begs the question: has the US turned into a plutocracy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3VA2pTI5KE



Freedom is Something to Use or Lose

We Must Fight the Antisocial Behaviour Bill

By George Monbiot

Consumerism s petty liberties have made us inhumanly passive. We've forgotten what freedom is, and how easily it is lost.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37425.htm



The Global Plutocracy

By Andre Damon and Barry Grey

The people of the world are confronted with the question: What is to be done with this anti-social and criminal layer that is strangling the planet?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37429.htm



Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. s Solution to Poverty

By Jordan Weissmann

In his final book, the civil rights leader laid out his vision for a universal basic income that would raise all Americans into the middle class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37423.htm



Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013

The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal 2013, an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/record-20-households-food-stamps-2013



The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans

In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps, a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_STAMPS_INCOME_INEQUALITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-26-10-54-18



House passes bill cutting $8 billion from 'food stamps' program

The US House approved a five-year, nearly $1 trillion farm bill Wednesday reforming the federal government s crop subsidy system but cutting food stamps to pare the deficit.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/house-passes-bill-cutting-8-billion-from-food-stamps-program/


From Information Clearing House

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When Happiness Died in America...

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: For hundreds of years, we have stood by the idea that through hard work and perseverance, and given the right opportunities, anyone can be happy in America and achieve the American Dream. But today, the American Dream is on life support, and happiness is more elusive than ever before.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20671-when-happiness-died-in-america

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Welcome to the American plutocracy

The Progressive

01/27/14

Relatively few of us have even begun to understand how compromised by corporate greed and power our system of government has truly become. Even those who recognize the problem and take to the streets to speak out against Wall Street and the big banks only address the tip of this massive, opaque iceberg we have crashed into. The truth is, the United States no longer has a government of, by and for the people. We are ruled by amoral multinational corporations that exercise their dictates by purchasing our government and flexing its muscle against the only thing that threatens their vast wealth and opulence: the people. Welcome to the American plutocracy...

http://progressive.org/welcome-to-the-american-plutocracy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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