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The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters
To put this in context, the size of this upward redistribution to the richest 1 percent over the last three decades is roughly large enough to double the income of all the households in the bottom half of the income distribution. Continue reading
Posted in activism, Blogroll, business, Civil Rights, class war, culture, disinformation, Economic Democracy, economy, Labor, life, media, news, Political Hypocricy, politics, propaganda, Rights, social engineering, society, Uncategorized, unemployment, work, worker benefits
Tagged Center for Economic and Policy Research, corporate bailouts, Corporate Welfare, deficit hawks, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Social Security, Wall Street, War on the Middle Css
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How corporations dodge taxes
Our government is in knots over ways to lower the federal budget deficit. Well, what if we told you we found a pot of money – over $60 billion a year [another report claims U.S. companies are holding $1.2 trillion overseas] – that could be used to help out? Continue reading
All-out Class Warfare!
It starts with the New Deal. The Chamber [of Commerce] “accused Roosevelt of attempting to ‘Sovietize’ America; the chamber adopted a resolution ‘opposing the president’s entire legislative package.’” Opposition to FDR continued, shockingly, through the Lend-Lease program, designed to supply the allies with critical material to fight the Germans, and which brought a tremendous boon to American manufacturing. But more, the Chamber opposed American involvement in the war, the war which “triggered the greatest boom in America’s economic history.” Continue reading
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Tagged business, Chamber of Commerce, class war, corporations, globalization, labor, sweatshops, UAW, world order
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Nike claims lies about sweathop conditions constitutes “free speech”
by Glen Emerson Morris A law suit in California may have a profound effect on how businesses defend their business practices in public, especially on the Internet. For those not familiar with the case, Nike is being sued by a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, corporate malfeasance, Corporate Personhood, globalization, Nike, sweatshops, truth in advertizing
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Wall Street Declares War on America (Yes, this constitutes Conspiracy!)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement Embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she … Continue reading →