by Y. B. Normal FAST is the 1% controlling the 99%; is a military budget almost equal to all the rest of the world’s combined; is governmental surveillance; is the government persecuting whistleblowers instead of honoring them; is the school-to-prison pipeline for people of color and the poor; is having more than 25% of the world’s prisoners with less than 5% of the world’s population; FAST is the banksters in bed with [...]
By John Johnson There always has been wars between economic interest, in fact other than religion, this has been the prime reasons for war. In the United States one of the most vicious war was in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century of monopoly industries and robber barons in the new Industrial/Gilded Age. There was a very small middle class and conditions for most workers was abdominal. 14 hour work days, [...]
By Ted Rall —The Supreme Court says that corporations have the same rights as individuals. When they misbehave, shouldn't they face consequences as serious as those imposed upon an individual? It goes without saying that a person who commits a crime ought to face punishment proportional to the offense. Large and midsize corporations, which employ thousands of employees, have far vaster reach and power than even the wealthiest ordinary citizens. So their crimes can be breathtaking in [...]
