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An Answer to Unemployment: A Jobs-for-All Bill | Commentary
Written by By Rep. John Conyers Jr. and Philip L. Harvey | Roll Call
Act would boost employment now for the many who need it, eliminate residual joblessness even in times of prosperity
It has been five years since the financial crisis struck, and progress in putting the unemployed back to work still lags, with no end in sight.
How America Became a Third World Country
Written by Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford | The Nation
The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace.
Child poverty is the real scandal
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson | Chicago Sun Times
Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this diversion of dust and smoke as partisans hype mock “scandals” for political profit.
Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred
Written by Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence | RSN
"Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here."
A woman was giving my husband a hard time because our 10-month-old son had dropped his banana on the ground. Patrick picked it up, licked it and was about to hand it back to our boy. Seamus grabbed for it eagerly and scarfed it down. A minute or two later, he was grunting for more.
Pentagon officials ask Congress to shift $9.6B
Written by Zack Colman | The Hill
The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense Department budget toward expenses for the Afghanistan war, transportation and other items.
Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives
Written by Phyllis Bennis | Open Democracy
What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.
Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal
Written by Tony Capaccio & Gopal Ratnam | Bloomberg
The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, according to administration officials.
One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brown. In a time when America’s politicians strive to be everywoman and everyman, Brown goes his own way. While a nation frantically chases youth, the 75-year-old governor who glories in his age and experience, is at the top of his game.
No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
Written by David Swanson | War Is A Crime .org
After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale. And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers. And wow are people outraged!
Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing
Written by Democracy NOW | Huffington Post
Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
An urgent message to 200 members of Congress
Written by Robin Hood | RobinHoodTax.org
They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign.
Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a liberal church.
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record
Written by Jim Hightower | Hightower Lowdown .org
Here's who is buying America's democracy
The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups.
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar
Written by Jim Hightower | Hightower Lowdown .org
The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats
Some of you might remember "CREEP" from 1972's Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could've been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself, but instead it referred to the "Committee to RE-Elect the President."
PDA In Your State
