Losing Our Way by Bob Hebert The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its [...]

Interview with Amy Goodman: AMY GOODMAN: Well, let me ask you about Michigan. About a thousand people rallied in Michigan— NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah. AMY GOODMAN:—reminiscent of Wisconsin. Talk about the proposal there. NAOMI KLEIN: … there’s so much going on that these extraordinary measures are just getting lost in the shuffle. But in Michigan, there [...]

Good news! Monumental economic collapse on the horizon. (via stansberryresearch.com) This credentialed accountant sounds like a Zeitgeister regarding debt. Reminds me of this by Louis CK – maybe this pampered generation needs this major kick in the ass. If it takes rampant inflation to cut down on consumption of shit we don’t need, then maybe [...]

Rachel Maddow’s been good recently talking about Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s plan to “help” the budget crisis in his state by cutting education – only to turn around and give that money as tax breaks to corporations. In turn saving no money and enriching his donors. It’s storm the castle kind of infuriating. Visit msnbc.com [...]

Corporate America has best quarter in US history as real unemployment rate soars Even amid the most turbulent economic conditions since the Great Depression, US corporate profits are at an all time high, according to a Tuesday report [PDF link] by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. At the same time, America’s poor and middle classes [...]

In case you were getting optimistic: Right Now, A Complete Collapse Of The Financial System Is Not Out Of The Question Where are we now? Many governments reacted with fiscal stimulus packages as well as bail-outs of financial systems. While many have proclaimed that the worst is behind, by all objective measures, nearing the end [...]

There’s an interesting discussion going on at Dangerous Minds after they published a couple of pictures of lard-assed Americans, such as: A few got annoyed with that, saying it was mocking the working class and taking aim at the wrong targets. Instead of paraphrasing myself, here’s what I wrote: Every stupid person in the world [...]

More Alex Jones madness – again linked by the Drudge Report, which I find interesting because Jones is such a rabid Bush-hater. It was 2017. Clans were governing America. The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the [...]

Recently watched three documentaries that paint a pretty alarming picture of the state of things. But also bring to mind the activism on the right against financial regulation, environmental regulation, or changing tactics in the War on Terror. Maybe if tea baggers watched these documentaries, they’d realize the hole that bad government has put us [...]

A Youtube video by the protester against the flotilla attack who lost an eye. Yesterday on the drive home, went past the protest at the Turkish consulate on Wilshire Blvd. Looked like this: Felt physically revolted.  I’m Jewish – by birth only. But hard not to feel some tug in support of Israel.  Except they’re [...]