7.11.2015
Paul Krugman on the inconceivable success of Obamacare: But this wasn’t supposed to happen — and therefore, given the epistemology of the modern American right, it didn’t. Failure was inevitable, success inconceivable, and therefore failure must have happened.
***** IF YOU ONLY READ ONE ARTICLE THIS DECADE..... Greece’s solidarity movement: ‘it’s a whole new model – and it’s working’
***** Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real and God is not 'a magician with a magic wand'
Leader of Christian Zionists Named Head of Campus Anti-BDS Group
How Solar Power Is Learning To Share: The Rapid Growth Of Community Solar Gardens
Coalition of Churches Calls on Obama to End Israeli “Occupation”
Israeli women launch fast for peace on Gaza war anniversary
I srael Locks down Hunger Striking Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
7.10.2015
30 school principals from Malvani on hunger strike
******* ******* ******* ******* *******..... Local restaurant owner declines Baltimore Restaurant Week to feed the homeless instead.
If you feel that capitalism works, then what you feel, is that capitalism works for you and yours, careless of the horror it is for the masses, for all of Creation, and for the universe if we allow it to escape earth. May Creator have mercy on your black-heartedness, if you are 1 of these zealots
If you feel that capitalism works, then what you feel, is that capitalism works for you and yours, careless of the horror it is for the masses, for all of Creation, and for the universe if we allow it to escape earth. May Creator have mercy on your black-heartedness, if you are 1 of these zealots
7.09.2015
*****Breathtaking! Must read! Astonishing! Glenn Greenwald interviewing Max Blumenthal!!!
***** Jenny Horne's tearful Confederate flag speech shakes S. Carolina statehouse
***** The hallmark of the stupid is that they do not know what they do not know and couldn't care less...which is why they do not know... And why they will never know.
The hallmark of the stupid is that they do not know what they do not know and couldn't care less...which is why they do not know... And why they will never know.
***** Robert Reich People seem to forget that the Greek debt crisis -- which is becoming a European and even possibly a world economic crisis – grew out of a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein.......
Robert Reich
People seem to forget that the Greek debt crisis -- which is becoming a European and even possibly a world economic crisis – grew out of a deal with Goldman Sachs, engineered by Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein. Several years ago, Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt -- and in the process almost doubled it. When the first debt deal was struck in 2001, Greece owed about 600 million euros ($793 million) more than the 2.8 billion euros it had borrowed. Goldman then cooked up an off-the-books derivative for Greece that disguised the shortfall but increased the government’s losses to 5.1 billion euros. In 2005, the deal was restructured and the 5.1 billion euro debt was locked in. After that, Goldman and the rest of Wall Street pulled the global economy to its knees – whacking Greece even harder.
Undoubtedly, Greece suffers from years of corruption and tax avoidance by its wealthy. But Goldman Sachs isn't exactly innocent. It padded its profits by catastrophically leveraging up the global economy with secret, off-balance-sheet debt deals. Did any of its executives ever go to jail? Of course not. They all got fat bonuses and promotions. Blankfein, now CEO, raked in $24 million in 2014 alone. Meanwhile, the people of Greece struggle to buy medicine and food.