The Massachusetts senator sure won’t let big banks get away with the kind of blatant robbery other members of Congress seem perfectly happy to allow. Friday, Elizabeth Warren gave a scathing speech against bank bailouts on the Senate floor that has some proclaiming it may be the kind of address that gets her elected president of the More
Plutonomy and the Precariat> On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained More
Plutonomy and the Precariat> On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained More
The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street Robert Reich December 10, 2011 via LA Progressive Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making the public more distrustful than ever. The Street’s biggest lobbying More
Dear Editor- LAPD Arrests the Truth at Occupy LA Culver City Crossroads My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 More
You Can Arrest an Idea Robert Scheer Dec 1, 2011 truthdig via RSN A Los Angeles Police Department officer stands guard on the eve of the city’s eviction of the Occupy L.A. protest. AP / Dan Steinberg The bankers slept well. Their homes in Beverly Hills were not spotlighted by a noisy swarm of police helicopters, More
