Category Archives: Politics

America’s corporate tax obscenity

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

A new report about companies’ finances won’t just enrage you — it’ll make you run to the nearest protest BY ANDREW LEONARD In 2010, Verizon reported an annual profit of nearly $12 billion. The statutory federal corporate income tax rate … Continue reading →

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China Trade: Another Chapter in the 2000s Weak Jobs Story

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

A friend was commenting on this post from the other day wherein I hypothesized as to why employment growth was so much slower in the 2000s than in earlier decades. He suggested the sharp acceleration in Chinese imports after their … Continue reading →

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Too Big to Jail

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

Robert Scheer Editor, Truthdig.com; Author, ‘The Great American Stickup’ Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that Citigroup agreed last week to pay a $285 million fine to settle SEC … Continue reading →

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Exxon Profits Ironically Jump 41% While Our Government Snoozes Away

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

Raymond J. Learsy Author, ‘Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption’ Like many, I was a skeptic the first time I encountered the Occupy movement. I longed to see a populist movement for economic justice, but it was hard to believe … Continue reading →

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What Does Wall Street Really Want?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Senior Religion Editor for the Huffington Post What does Occupy Wall Street want? This has been the continual question from the media, and the critique from skeptics. The question “what do they want?” has been used to … Continue reading →

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Bankers’ Salaries vs. Everyone Else’s

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

By CATHERINE RAMPELL Why are the Occupy Wall Streeters so angry at bankers? This chart might give you some idea: Via New York State Comptroller report. That chart is from a new report from the New York State Comptroller’s office … Continue reading →

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A Letter to the #Occup(iers): The principle of Non-contradiction

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Lawrence Lessig Author, ‘Republic, Lost’; Founder, Rootstrikers Like a fever, revolutions come in waves. And if this is a revolution, then it broke first on November 4, 2008, with the election of Barack Obama, second, on February 19, 2009, with … Continue reading →

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Corporate Citizenship: How Public Dissent In Paris Sparked Creation Of The Corporate Person

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Ryan Grim & Mike Sacks WASHINGTON — Of all the Occupy Wall Street refrains, one of the most memorable is, “I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one.” But, clever as it is, the quip looks … Continue reading →

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Old White People Who Think They Can Just Check Out Should Think Again

Posted on October 5, 2011 by admin

By Jim Schutze Categories: Get Off My Lawn ​So what is all this anger among the old white people really all about? Why are old white people wearing odd costumes and hating the president all the time? We old white … Continue reading →

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And Hate Begat Hate

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin

By Ahmed Rashid September 13, 2011 “Today Online” — IN their shock after Sept. 11, 2001, Americans frequently asked, “Why do they hate us so much?” It wasn’t clear just who “they” were – Muslims, Arabs or simply anyone who … Continue reading →

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