“The top 1 percent now accounts for 23.5 percent of the national income if you include capital gains. In 1979, they only had 9.8 percent of the nation’s earnings. During that same period, tax rates on the richest Americans have actually dropped. So as the economy went one way – toward more money going to [...]
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Among the numerous commentators writing and blogging on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, Chris Hedges is one of the most eloquent. In a posting in ReaderSupported News, dated Oct 11, he reports: The lords of finance in the looming towers surrounding the park, who toy with money and lives, who make the political class, [...]
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These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. These 70 photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America [...]
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In an article in The Nation Michael Pollan looks at the question of how and when the unhealthy and environmentally disastrous American agriculture and food system is going to change. Recognizing the present political obstacles in the way of reform is discouraging. Congress is stacked with hard-core supporters of the present system industrial agriculture system. [...]
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Few people anticipated that a small group of citizens practicing non-violent spontaneous street theatre on the doorsteps of the financial imperium would expand so rapidly to include demonstrations in other major US cities and galvanize a growing movement. Here is a link to its first, but surely not its last, popular song, spreading virally through [...]
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