Saturday, May 5, 2012

Common Sense: What We Choose Now Matters

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Click here to access article by Dan Hind from New Left Project. (This is the introduction to his new book entitled, Common Sense: Occupatio...

The Power of Plutocracy

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Click here to access article by Rob Urie from CounterPunch.  The author provides a good assessment of the current reign of the plutocrats...

The Corporate Hijacking of America’s Land-Grant Universities

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Click here to access article by Tim Schwab from Civil Eats.  This fairly brief article shows how the One Percent is taking over public ed...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Of Conspiracies, Critics, and the Crisis: Reflections on the 99% Spring

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Click here to access article by Edmund Berger from Dissident Voice.  This is a highly intelligent examination of various groups in the US...

Do You Know Who Owns Your Congressional Representative?

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Click here to access article by Robert Oak from the Economic Populist.  Even Bloomberg News, the premier TV news program of US capitalist...

US Health Care Still Radically More Expensive Yet Not More Effective

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Click here to access article by Jon Walker from FireDogLake. Few issues in the US can illustrate the contradiction better between cap...

A Maple Spring?

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Click here to access article by Jane Gatensby from Ceasefire. [Part 1 of ?]   Quebec is a place where people fight for the things that ...

New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years

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Click here to access article by Abrahm Lustgarten from ProPublica.  A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drillin...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention [23:52m video]

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Click here to access 23:52m video from Al Jazeera, a Fault Lines production. The system based on the private appropriation of socially pr...

Let the Games begin: London’s Dystopian Olympics

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Click here to access article by Matt Carr from Ceasefire.  The largest peacetime security operation in British history cannot be simply a...

Occupy May Day: the march on Wall Street — in pictures

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Click here to access pictures from Reflections on a Revolution.

"Connecting the Dots" Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change

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Click here to access article by Jamie Henn from Huffington Post. ...in the United States, 82 percent of Americans say that they've...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement

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Sourced from Real News where you can follow the transcript of this 15:33m video discussion with Leo Panitch and Sam Gidin.  They discuss ...

Only a Populist Movement Will Lead to True Freedom and an Inclusive Democracy

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Click here to access article by Greg Ruggiero from Buzzflash.  This is a revised introduction to a new book by Noam Chomsky entitled, Occ...

Unemployment in Europe. Where will it stop?

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Click here to access article by Merijn Knibbe from Real-World Economics Review Blog. What I think is really significant here are the high...

The Business of War in Afghanistan

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Click here to access article by Antony Loewenstein from Al Akhbar (Beirut, Lebanon).  It appears that private militias and spy services i...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Mayhem 2012: gearing up for a global spring of discontent

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Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution. In May, the 99 percent will open up new avenues of resistan...

The Working Class Hero Takes a Bow

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Click here to access photos celebrating Lebanese workers from Beirut based Al Akhbar.  This is an illustration of how international May D...

Workers' Rights

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A poem by David Chalk.  So far I haven't been able to find out much about this British poet except that he has written some great poem...

A short history of May Day

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Click here to access article from Libcom.  The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held ...