Category Archives: “class warfare” labeling

Alec MacGillis and Propublica: America’s original underclass. “Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 was published in 2012, and Robert D. Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis came out last year. From opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, they made the case that social breakdown among low-income whites was starting to mimic trends that had begun decades earlier among African Americans: Rates of out-of-wedlock births and male joblessness were rising sharply……the fatalism is clear: Things were much better in an earlier time, and no future awaits in places that have been left behind by polished people in gleaming cities. The most painful comparison is not with supposedly ascendant minorities—it’s with the fortunes of one’s own parents or, by now, grandparents.” read

John Dewey: Jake Johnson reminds us of his prescient perception of the corrupting political effect of big business. “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.” read

James Hoggan on how Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky interpret corporate propaganda. read

CFPB proposes rule to permit class-action suits instead of individual arbitrations. read

CFPB proposes rule to permit class-action suits instead of individual arbitrations. read

How deterrent will this sentencing of a coal-mine owner be? read

Paul Buchheit: Top tax should be raised to 80 percent to reverse the present class war. read

Howard Zinn on roles of taxation in history int. by Bella Lam (2008). read

Phil Matters: the 17 worst corporate crimes of 2015. read

David Korten on US corporate rule. read

D. Campbell on the bankers role in Greek collapse. read

Noam Chomsky on Greece (47 min). watch

Richard Wolff on Greece and failed “austerity.” read

Richard Wolff on history of class struggles. listen

Charles Derber: Democracy of Corporocrasy?” The Algonquin pipeline. read