World-News

The Christian Science Monitor
by David R. Francis

03/15/11

There?s something missing in the Washington political scene -- a genuine populist, a prominent politician persistently pointing out a decades-long drift of income and wealth to a tiny fringe at the top. Maybe this person should be organizing a peaceable march on the Washington Monument to draw attention to today?s extraordinary distortion in the American economy. After all, the concentration of wealth in the United States is more extreme than the much-observed build-up of wealth in Egypt that helped lead to the recent revolution...

http://tinyurl.com/4aq6dyg



Workers against the bosses? economy

Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

03/14/11

The state, though, born out of economic exploitation and class subjugation, has never been anything but a tool of the elite. The idea that it can be used for good is the great illusion, the deceit through which the state makes us participants in our own enslavement to it. The bold actions of workers in Wisconsin remind of the truth, that the state never intrudes into economic life but for the interests of the powerful...

http://c4ss.org/content/6433


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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