ZeroHedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Robert Reich. The Story of Broke (2011) Did You Hear the One About the Bankers? A progressive dialogue: Occupy the future -- A new generation reaches for the emergency brake. When students take to the streets of Paris or London today, it is no longer to bring about a better world, but to defend what they can of the world their parents took for granted. - Dougald Hine, 'Remember the Future?
', Dark Mountain II If someone has compiled an Occupy Wall Street reading list, investigative journalist Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia is surely on it. Taibbi argues: "The financial leaders of America and their political servants have seemingly reached the cynical conclusion that our society is not worth saving and have taken on a new mission that involves not creating wealth for all, but simply absconding with whatever wealth remains in our hollowed-out economy. " Capitalism has always been driven by naked self-interest, of course. It's the prisoners' dilemma on a planetary scale. The nature of the beast For all that has been written about the financial crisis, there have been precious few efforts to connect it to its shadow: the planetary ecological crisis. 'Our one demand' How the Rich Subverted the Legal System and Occupy Wall Street Swept the Land. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.
As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding—indeed, an integral part of it. About the Author Glenn Greenwald Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator and a current contributing writer at Salon.... Income inequality has worsened over the past several years and is at its highest level since the Great Depression. During the late 1980s and the late 1990s, the United States experienced two unprecedentedly long periods of sustained economic growth—the “seven fat years” and the “long boom.”
Americans understand this implicitly. Merge Left. New Deal 2.0. Rortybomb. Corey Robin. Guest Post: Corey Robin on the Deep Roots of Conservative Radicalism. In New York on Thursday, October 6th, CUNY, the Roosevelt Institute, and The Nation will present “What is Conservatism? ,” a conversation between Professor Corey Robin and Christopher Hayes focused on Robin’s new book, The Reactionary Mind. Click here for more details on the event. I really hope you can all make it, should be an excellent discussion. I’m still absorbing Robin’s provocative thesis — that conservatism is, and always has been, “a meditation on — and theoretical rendition of — the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back.” Long before Ron Suskind tangled with the media and the White House for telling truths or tales about the Obama administration, he was the hero of liberals.
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. They spoke neither to the understanding nor to the heart. Opinion: GOP backs tax hike -- for the poor - Robert L. Borosage. Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future. Tea with Joseph Stiglitz economist.com/video. Opensocietyinstitute's Channel.