The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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7 Companies That Make Bank While Stiffing Their Workers
A handful of ultra-rich companies are raking in untold profits while paying their workers peanuts. Here is a list of the mega-billion corporations that specialize in offering low-wage jobs, including Walmart, Starbucks, McDonald's and Con Edison.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Southern California erupted, the Occupied Chicago Tribune won the battle to keep its name, The Tax Dodgers were honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and time is running out to prosecute the financial crimes of 2008.
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Lawsuit Calls Out NYPD For Violent Suppression of Occupy Wall Street
The City of New York must take immediate action to correct the clear pattern of abusive policing of Occupy Wall Street protests.
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LIBOR: When Finance Usurps Democracy
Titanic banks have hit the LIBOR iceberg. The charges of racketeering, antitrust violations, wire fraud, bid-rigging and price-fixing are adding up. Will lawsuits sink the ship?
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Victory in Minnesota as Ruby Brown Keeps Her Home
After five years of battling Bank of America for her home, a North Minneapolis woman wins the foreclosure battle -- and says "so many people in the same situation" can do the same.
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How Oil Companies Spend Their $375 Million In Daily Profits
The five biggest oil companies earned $375 million in profits per day last year – or more than a quarter of a million dollars per minute, more than 96 percent of American households make in a year. So just where, and on what, are they spending those billions?
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A New Middle-Class Squeeze
The ever-widening gap between rich and poor, by the numbers.
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The Careerists
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They enforce the laws and the regulations. And they do not ask questions.
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Cronyism: The One Thing Occupy and the Tea Party Can Agree On
New research is trying to project where the core grievances of the Occupy and Tea Party movements intersect. Whether it's outrage targeted at big banks and corporations, or at the failure of government, scholars say one word joins the two: Cronyism.
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The Revolution Equation
Politics is possibility. Politics is ideas, and ideas are dangerous. When the sum of the people's political expectations exceeds their economic expectations, they are ripe for revolt.
