Showing posts with label class discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class discrimination. Show all posts
Friday, August 23, 2019

The Missing Howls of Denunciation Over Major Sex Trafficking

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Click here to access article by Michael Brenner from Consortium News . Brenner is confused by the differential treatment in the Epstein a...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Corporate welfare

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Click here if you wish to access the cartoon by Max Gustafson directly from his website. 
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Capitalism = homelessness

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Click here to access article by Stephen Millies from Workers World .  The author reviews much of the housing history of the US, including...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Blankenship the imprisoned convict

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Click here to access article by economist David Ruccio from his blog Occasional Links & Commentary . This post provides another illus...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital

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Click here to access article by Mumia Abu-Jamal from CounterPunch . In a capitalist society, only capital matters. It’s all about the Be...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Inequality of opportunity (3 graphs)

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Click here to access article by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog . By posting these three graphs, Ruccio, and economist...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Policing and Profit

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Click here to access article from the Harvard Law Review . (Note: I was alerted to this article by a reader of the Real-World Economics Rev...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Matt Taibbi on Democracy Now: Banks Admit to Crimes, Pay $5 Billion, And Still No One Goes to Jail

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Click here to access article by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism. As we learn of another white cop shooting unarmed African-Americans sus...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Capitalism, the working class and the fight against police violence

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Click here to access article by David Walsh from World Socialist Web Site. ...the fundamental division in Baltimore—as in American societ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Income Inequality Costs The Middle Class $18,000 A Year

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Click here to access article by Bryce Covert from ThinkProgress.  This article provides jargon-free analysis and charts to reveal the inc...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Supremacy: A Social Order of Division, Control and Enslavement

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Click here to access article by Kali Ma from The Hampton Institute . (Commentary that follows was modified slightly at 8 AM 8/22/2013. Ov...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer

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Click here to access article by Hannah Levintova, Jaeah Lee, and Brett Brownell from Mother Jones .  Back in 1963 at the height of libera...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Morgan Stanley Sued for Racial Discrimination in Pushing Predatory Loans to Black Homeowners

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Click here to access article from American Civil Liberties Union. Morgan Stanley discriminated against black homeowners and violated fede...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Occupy Empathy

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z from World News Trust. The author describes a recent visit to Saks department store in New York ...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy to be reviewed by US department of justice

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Click here to access article by Ryan Devereaux from The Guardian.  This report supports my argument that police state methods consistent...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Lying to Eat

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Click here to access article from American Civil Liberties Union. Dishonesty, in its various incarnations, is not an admirable trait. But ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A Tax Break Nobody Needs

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by Gerald E. Scorse from Dissident Voice .  While the tax code is extremely unfair, this author focuses much too narrowly on one provision...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Austerity for workers, tax cuts for business—Europe’s class policy

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from World Socialist Web Site. Class war is raging in Europe as in the US. Big business, the banks and the super rich are being increasingl...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Slick Operator: The BP I've Known Too Well

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by Greg Palast from TruthOut. The author gives us his scoop on how Big Oil really functions. I've seen this movie before. In 1989, I wa...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Global warming means local (super) storming

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from Climate Progress. The article provides evidence to suggest that we can expect more and more extreme weather events in the future. The...