World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-2

Only Thing Clear About Obamas Afghan Policy: Its a Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-0

The Rich Get Richer While Nurses, Teachers, and Firefighters Get Trounced
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-4

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The New American Dream

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'If you are wealthy, you are living in the Golden Age of your American Dream, and it's a damned fine time to be alive. The two major political parties are working hammer and tong to bless you and keep you. The laws are being re-written - often by fiat, and in defiance of court orders - to strengthen the walls separating you and your wealth from the motley masses. Your stock portfolio, mostly made by and for oil and war, continues to swell. Your banks and Wall Street shops destroyed the economy for everyone except you, and not only did they get away with it, but were handed a vast dollop of taxpayer cash as a bonus prize.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-new-american-dream68847



Banding Together for the Common Good

Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 'American revolutionaries Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and decades later even the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville, fretted about a return to America of a despotic government running roughshod over the rights of citizens. Few, however, seriously considered the possibility of corporations rising up to take over the people of the world and then to take control of the peoples governments. It was only after he had left the presidency that Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816 about the rise of power of the 'moneyed corporations.'

http://www.truth-out.org/banding-together-common-good68845



The Collapse of Globalization

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources, including food and water, jobs and security, are becoming scarcer and harder to obtain. They presage growing misery for hundreds of millions of people who find themselves trapped in failed states, suffering escalating violence and crippling poverty. They presage increasingly draconian controls and force - take a look at what is being done to Pfc. Bradley Manning - used to protect the corporate elite who are orchestrating our demise.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-collapse-globalization68839

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This can be our moment

In These Times
by Stephen Lerner

03/29/11

Working people are losing when we should be winning. Wall Street, the Koch brothers, greedy CEOs, and the super-rich have seized the economic crisis they created and are exploiting it. They are slashing public budgets; attacking nurses, teachers and firefighters; destroying public employee unions; and cutting healthcare, education, childcare and other critical community programs. Their campaign will intensify as they dedicate themselves to destroying the remaining islands of private-sector union strength ? slashing benefits and pay for all workers. Their goal: lock in their political and economic dominance...

http://tinyurl.com/4a9cqp6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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