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Michele Swenson, Truthout: 'Washington rhetoric waxes Orwellian in proportion to inside-the-Beltway disconnect around cause and effect of the US economic crisis. Ranging from the Ryan Budget - 'kill Medicare to save it' - and some Democrats - 'cut Medicare and Social Security to save them' - to claims that deficit reduction (not jobs) is 'what the people want,' to the 'greed is good' creed that assigns entitlements in the form of taxpayer bailouts to wealthy financial institutions that take for granted the ability to shift risk for their liar's loans and speculative transactions.'

http://www.truth-out.org/america-held-hostage-two-party-failure-government-and-corporations/1311345019



Why the GOP Aims to Sink the Economy

Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future: 'If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans would be like an ambitious first mate, so eager to seize power from the captain that he steers the ship of state into an iceberg, thinking he will take over when the captain goes down with the ship. Republicans have forgotten - or no longer care - they are on the boat too, and they are working very hard to ensure that the country will be nearly ungovernable should they succeed in seizing the reins of government.

http://www.truth-out.org/why-gop-aims-sink-economy/1311875512



War and the True Tragedy of the Commons

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: 'The 'Tragedy of the Commons,' Garrett Hardin s 1968 controversial essay published in Science, essentially targeted overpopulation (read: poor women) as the prime threat to sustainable life on our finite earth. Hardin, and many who consumed this thesis, failed to single out the very small, but politically powerful, population responsible for a mammoth environmental impact - the military. Per capita, the military complex (read: powerful men) is the most polluting human population.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-and-true-tragedy-commons/1311181265



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