There are few (if any) "free markets" in the largest sectors of the US economy. The health care industry is a labyrinth of public and private payers. Sectors known as "guard labor" are also larded with subsidies.
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America’s economy isn’t doing great, but it’s better than the rest of the world’s. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from the monthly surveys of manufacturing firms across the globe that were released on Thursday. Almost everywhere, manufacturing …
Pepper spray is banned for use in war by Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention which bans the use of all riot control agents in warfare whether lethal or less-than-lethal.
The now-viral video of police officers in theirRobocop costumes sadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis shows a police state in its pure form.
Gov. Rick Scott announced today that he has sold Florida to the Koch brothers.
Noah Rothman reported yesterday on the mass exodus from her campaign in New Hampshire, but today, Bachmann has released a statement claiming that the story was fabricated by the media.
At the end of his remarks, Obama turned to Warren and kissed her on the cheek. She smiled gamely, though if there are kisses a woman can do without, this was one of them. A Judas kiss, some would say. But if so, the betrayal was not just of Elizabeth Warren.
Photoshop this proud patriot...
Today I traveled to Occupy Pensacola. Yes, folks, it's spreading. I went for two reasons: I wanted to see this so-called progressive stack in action that I had heard was all the rage (and was basically reverse-discrimination) and I also was very interes …
Police arrived at 11:30 and gave eviction notices to a group of 70 occupiers - 30 of whom vowed to remain. Bo Diddley Jr.
This Occupy Wall Street Movement has been brought to you by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. “The Ben & Jerry’s board of directors … wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement,&rdqu …
A small Florida bank took a swipe at larger rival institutions and their newly announced fees Tuesday by offering to actually pay new customers who open checking accounts. Community Bank & Company, with 17 locations in the Tampa-St.
As Troy Davis faces his fourth execution date, the effort to save him has come to rival the most celebrated death row campaigns in recent history. On Monday, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will give Mr.
In a bit of payback for what it sees as their attack on workers' rights, one Wisconsin union has barred Republican officials from marching in its annual Labor Day parade.
Here’s a shocker: If you run headlines all day every day for a month saying the economy may go to hell because the government can’t get its act together, people pay attention. They really pay attention when the value of their retirement savings drops by 10% or 20%.
Less than three years ago, Dick Cheney was presiding over policies that left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead from a war of aggression, constructed a worldwide torture regime, and spied on thousands of Americans without the warrants required by law, all of which res …
As the society's resources continue to dwindle, the problem of the "surplus population" becomes more acute for the ruling class. The State now controls a population which is far larger than the ruling class finds useful for its purposes.
Apologies to all who have 'lost everything,' but this is too funny … YouTube removed the video. Go to:
My wife Joyce and I were renting a car for the week this morning at a Hertz office just outside Philadelphia.
In the deadliest day for American forces in the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan, insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter on Saturday, killing 30 Americans and 7 Afghan commandos on board, American and Afghan officials said.
(CNN) -- Hackers apparently broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news early Monday and used it to announce -- falsely -- that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Obama was "shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa while campaigning.
Joe Bageant was an extraordinarily gifted writer and thinker.
It's rare to be able to write in praise of a high elected official, but Eric Schneiderman -- New York's recently elected state Attorney General -- thus far deserves it. As a State Senator, he was one of the leaders in reforming that state's decades-old, oppressiv …
As long as their corporate-sponsored media can keep us talking in terms of conservative/liberal; Republican/Democrat; right-wing/left-wing, then the rich control the conversation–and it will always be directed toward THEIR best interests, not the best interests of the majo …
Myths about marijuana convince people that alcohol is safer, but science shows pot is the healthier choice. Alcohol kills approximately 70,000 people per year.
Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million over the last three months of 2011 for her challenge to Republican Senator Scott Brown who currently sits in the seat once occupied by Ted Kennedy.
1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W.
I've been told that Republicans are not "obstructing" Obama or the Democrats, since Republicans were elected in November of 2010 on a platform of "stopping Obama". It's a claim that-- while utter nonsense-- certainly deserves a closer look. It is certainly true that …
Here are the relevant words: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there, good for you. But, I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
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