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Monthly Archives: January 2012
21st Century Robber Barons
from the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University Read The Party People of Wall Street by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship at billmoyers.com
BPR Quote of the Day: Men in Suits
“Bear in mind, too, that experience has made it painfully clear that men in suits not only don’t have any monopoly on wisdom, they have very little wisdom to offer.” Paul Krugman from Confronting the Malefactors (NY Times, Oct. 6, … Continue reading
BPR Quote of the Day: Celibate Clergy
“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” Carl Sagan
Howard Zinn on the American Empire
What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American Empire By Howard Zinn originally from TomDispatch.com, 2008
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’
by George Lakey/ Waging Nonviolence/ Jan. 25, 2012 A march in Ådalen, Sweden, in 1931. While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, government, inequality, labor, Occupy Wall Street, politics
Tagged nonviolence, Norway, Sweden, the 1%, the one percent, Waging Nonviolence
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BPR Quote of the Day: American Hypocrisy, Part II
“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?” Kahlil Gibran
The U.S. Is So Unpredictable: Who Could Have Known…?
by Arlen Grossman “Too Big to Fail” Wall Street firms caused a worldwide financial crash, the government bailed them out and didn’t break them up, and yet these companies continue risky investments and reward their executives with outrageously large salaries … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Education, foreign policy, government, Iraq, Iraq war, politics, Republican Party
Tagged energy, family values, free trade, insurance companies, job creators, middle class, oil, poor, population growth, sex scandals, Supreme Court, tax rates, taxes, universal health insurance, Wall Street, wealthy
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BPR Quote of the Day: The Owners of Government
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Posted in Economics, economy, government, Quotations
Tagged Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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