Politics ~ Progressive

Who is Standard & Poor's to tell America how much debt it has to shed in order to keep its credit rating?

Bruce E. Levine is a clinical psychologist and author of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011). www.brucelevine.net.

The Pentagon power elite is waging a global war of secret scope...although the public knows more after Osama bin Laden's killing...read on.

Eisenhower was talked out of saying "military industrial congressional complex," but the meaning nonetheless came through. David Swanson is the author of "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at davidswanson.org and warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization rootsaction.org

Chris Christie says 'climate change is real' while vetoing climate action ~ @grist http://t.co/1qKpnYw

Qaddafi's Downfall, Obama's Victory - The Atlantic: http://t.co/o5MD7lo via @AddThis

A Peek at the Military's Budget for Eternal Salvation ~ @Truthdig http://t.co/8dDs1Gm

The Latest Chapter Features Misinformation About Boeing and Its Unions

It's intellectually dishonest to have a discussion over the fairness of the tax code and welfare programs without FIRST addressing the inherent inequality of our labor markets, capital markets, access to education, access to the judicial system, access to infrastructure, and intellectual property laws. Fundamentally, if a business leader makes his profits from paying his employees minimum wage at $7.50/hour in an area where a decent livable wage is $15/hour, but where workers have little negotiating leverage and few other options, then it is RIGHT to expect government to tax the business/owner at a high percentage and the workers at a low percentage, and to use tax funds to provide the under-compensated workers with housing and food assistance, as well as other forms of aid. In that scenario, the scenario in which most of our country operates (accounting also for middle-class wage-earners that are under-paid), it is disturbingly unfair to demand that "equality" be applied only at the tax code (even moreso that it only be leveled at the income tax, specifically), as if wealth is earned solely in proportion to some fantastical Randian ideal of personal worth and NOT heavily influenced by real-world power dynamics.

C.I.A. Fights Memoir of 9/11 by F.B.I. Agent in Terror Fight http://t.co/7Gl0caG

Fed and other regulators need policing: economist http://t.co/AqDLKPd

RT @avivajazz: Koch Bros wage war on Obama - billionaire libertarians .…with NO limits ? * http://t.co/FQUWPGi

C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight http://t.co/4UejUxA

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RT @manyko2: New Exposé Reveals Rick Perry's Close Ties to Radical Evangelicals and Self-Proclaimed Prophets by Amy Goodman http://t.co/ ...

RT @ThePeoplesCause: Mainstream Economist: Marx Was Right. Capitalism May Be Destroying Itself > http://t.co/H4tiZRy

RT @Emperor_Bob: Austeridiocy: Budget Cuts Take Money Out Of The Economy http://t.co/2MSPmKU

RT @ThePeoplesCause: Why is Microsoft More Creditworthy Than U.S. Government?: How Corporate Tax Avoidance is Killing Our Economy > h ...

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