By: Chaz Valenza @ OpEdnews.com Shared from Alternet.org Editor's note: Today is the fifth day demonstrators have staged an "occupation" of Wall St. and other parts of lower Manhattan in protest of America's staggering economic inequality and the influence of big finance on our politics. As of Tuesday night,…
By Jim Hoover Paul Krugman’s “The Bleeding Cure” oped this week in the NY Times provided the comparison of the Middle Age practice of bleeding the patient to make them healthy, to the mistaken notion that our recession can be cured with reduced deficits. The problem with this analogy…
By: Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America This morning, the President proposed the "Buffett Rule," which would require those earning more than $1 million a year to pay the same share of their income in taxes as middle-class families do. This proposal makes sure millionaires and billionaires share…
Gender inequality has maintained the suppression of women worldwide and unfortunately has impacted Sub-Saharan Africa with the greatest magnitude. Everyday in these countries are countless occurrences of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse that must be acknowledged as a primary concern for governments across the world. A prime example of…
By Jim Hoover Commercial banks normally provide important services as financial intermediaries, collecting funds for safe, liquid and secure investment opportunities. Since the great depression, gambling and speculative activities were always kept separate, that is until greed was successfully infused into the process beginning in the 1980s. Since then…
By Jim Hoover You have seen the scale of justice held by the Lady Justice, often depicted wearing a blindfold to denote justice being meted out objectively. The personification of the moral force in judicial systems dates back to Ancient Egypt’s Goddess Maat, but the image is actually patterned…
By: Fredrick Munculok Often when the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks rolls around for the past half-decade we’ve very cursorily glanced over what happened that day, remembering fuzzy memories and accounts we can recall, and then filling the rest in with 24 hour news coverage of the planes going…
Ever since President Obama was elected I have noticed a lot of insanity from a certain segment of the White population. President Obama has been accused of taking away civil liberties of “real Americans” and not actually being an American at all but a Kenyan socialist-communist-fascist who is going to…
By: David Palsman Talking to a Communist friend of mine—though we usually disagree on most things political—he pointed out something that I hadn't thought about before: maybe we should elect a fundamentalist right-wing Republican as the next President. Not for the sake of saving our country, but to jumpstart…
By: Midnite Writer Recently, there has been quite a flurry in the media about who they are. In case you haven’t run across it on one of the major news sites and without mentioning any names to keep their identity private (snicker), you know who they are. You can find…