First, props to SueInCa for her brilliant article, The Next Credit Bust – 2012? which inspired me to post this as a kind of companion article.
For those who have expressed interest in GROW and/or focusing on addressing...
During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit. At the time I thought, in a tunnel vision sort of way, Commercial Real Estate, which could be partially true but...
Probably not but in another amazingly corporate friendly decision a Federal appeals court struck down the FCC ability to prevent Comcast from punishing it's own internet users. The court vacated a 2008 "net neutrality" ruling that guaranteed users...
I think we all recognize that poverty in our nation has increased in the past three years, but what is not so much discussed is that it has been increasing steadily over the past 10 years. In the past...
Joe Stack had reached the end of his sanity. He was not a hero, he was not a martyr. He was an American who was driven into mental illness by despair.
According to the letter he left behind, he saw...
A New York Times reporter asked a man the following question, What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they? The man answered,
The really dangerous American fascist....is the man who wants to do in the...
With huge kudos to javaz for conceiving of and inspiring this, SueInCA for organizing, Chernynkaya for writing the Mission Statement and all the other members contributing, following is a list of all names suggested for a new populist organization...
Wellpoint, LLC, parent of Anthem/Blue Cross which announced a record single increase of customer's premiums by up to 39%, just delivered a letter to The White House to explain the necessary marketplace reasons for their outrageous increase. They sent...
We need to start a movement, a splinter group from the Democratic Party.
I am not talking about “media” or “profits” but am talking about starting a movement that somehow...
After a Superbowl that symbolically saw the city of New Orleans make a statement of defiance and resilience against social and economic injustice, CBS (Corporate Broadcasting System) debuted a show that was a disturbing piece of pro corporate propaganda...
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