Month: March 2012

Failed Trade Policies Have Erroded The Middle Class

From Economy In Crisis. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– There have been a lot of allegations of “class warfare” lately. Republicans screamed it when President Obama proposed a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans as part of the way to pay for his jobs plan. But the same Republicans who are quick […]

How England Helped Start the Great War

Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— A vastly underexplored topic is the British government’s role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally comfortable judgment that “authoritarian Germany” unleashed the Great War out of militaristic arrogance. […]

Protestantism, Capitalism, & Americanism

From Terre and Peuple. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Martin Luther Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the […]

Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Article by Greg Johnson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. If the debt exceeded the debtor’s total assets, he and his […]

FREE FRED REIO! Police arrest young African over Facebook and music video

From UhuruNews. Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— On February 7, police in riot gear came to arrest Fred Reio and said the “probable cause” was the music video here was the reason they locked him up. The guns in the video are just props and ain’t even real. They also had […]

The NYPD spying controversy: a microcosm for the 9/11 era

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- In this Dec. 29, 2011, file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly speaks at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, in Brooklyn, N.Y.  (Credit: AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File) (updated below) The NYPD spying program exposed by Associated Press […]

On Brandon Darby and “Sanctioned Use of Force”

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In a recent column (“Should Occupy Use Violence? I Dunno — Should the Cops?” Center for a Stateless Society, February 10) I deny that the state is a morally privileged entity. State violence — and police violence in particular — is subject to the […]

"They Can’t Take Away My Dignity…" Actually…

Article by Andy Nowicki. Glad to see I’m not the only one who always thought Whitney’s music was torturously unlistenable. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- After several painful years of committing what may be called slow-motion suicide, pop singer Whitney Houston has perished at the age of 48, another wretchedly pitiful casualty of […]