Murder, Spies and Voting Lies: Rigged elections exposed

“The ‘corporatization of America’ during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.” Noam Chomsky Part 1 “The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” Noam Chomsky Part 2 This is an [...]

Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess

(Foreclosures are being processed like goods on a factory floor. They brought in hand selected retired judges, the kind that support neoliberal austery measures, to “decrease the backlog” of cases in Florida at the expense of the rights of the homeowners. The War on the Middle Class keeps rolling along…) by G. Morgenson and G. [...]

Waking Up in the 1930s

by Howie Steir, Truth Dig In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line. That distant, faded, iconic black-and-white image of the Great Depression has re-emerged across the nation, waiting to be updated fully into HD color. Just as we seldom see pictures of American war dead returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, we [...]

US unemployment rose in August

by Barry Grey, WSWS US payrolls fell by 54,000 and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent the previous month, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department. The net job loss in August marked the third straight month in which the US economy shed jobs. [...]

Hightower: If You Don’t Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye

by Jim Hightower, Alter Net America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions — while [...]

We’re Being Conned on Social Security — How We Could Easily Raise Benefits or Allow People to Retire Earlier

by Joshua Holland, Alter Net Allow me to take a moment to fix that whole “Social Security crisis” that has everyone in Washington gnashing their teeth. When you see how easily it’s done, you may begin to realize that whenever our elites start chattering about “tax-gaps,” they’re almost certainly trying to rip you off — [...]