World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/01-4

Shifting Political Power: From Citizens United to Wisconsin
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01

Not a Union Member? Why You Should Care About Wisconsin (or Ohio or Michigan)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-11

Nurses Offer to Buy Presidents Shoes to March With Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-0

Wisconsin Battle Crucial for Health and Democracy?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/01-13

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America could not deliver

CounterPunch
by Thomas Naylor

03/01/11

Is it possible that the Green Mountain state might actually help save America from itself and help save the rest of the world from America by seceding from the Union and leading the nation into peaceful disunion?

http://counterpunch.org/naylor03012011.html



Capital or community in Wisconsin

The Nation Blog
by Laura Flanders

03/01/11

It should be the sound of the other shoe dropping, but you?ll have to listen hard to Governor Scott Walker?s budget address because most media will miss most of it. It?s a funny thing about covering budgets. Cutting spending garners a whole lot more attention than cutting taxes. How many Americans know, for example, that Governor Walker gave $140 million in tax breaks to corporations -- right before he announced this fiscal year's deficit of $137 million?

http://tinyurl.com/6ywtnwp



A real conservative constitutionalist sues Governor Scott

Our Future Blog
by Bill Scher

03/01/11

Florida State Sen. Thad Altman describes himself as a 'conservative Republican' and a 'strict constitutionalist.' Unlike so many conservative Republican lawmakers and judges who claim to abide by the constitution while skipping the clauses that get in the way of their partisan agenda, Altman is walking the walk. Today, he joined a Democratic counterpart in the Florida state senate and sued Republican Gov. Rick Scott in the Florida Supreme Court for violating the state constitution when he ignored Florida law and refused federal funds for a democratically approved high-speed rail project that would create an estimated 24,000 jobs...

http://tinyurl.com/689xnzk



Budget crisis? Duh, tax the rich!

In These Times
by Robert Parry

03/01/11

A great tragedy of the United States is that the answer to many of the country?s domestic problems is obvious, even simple, but can?t be done because of a dominating political/media dynamic that rules that solution out. The solution to these many problems -- from the budget deficit to crumbling infrastructure, from mass joblessness to income inequality, from environmental degradation to educational shortfalls -- is to raise taxes on the rich and to use that money to get the United States back on track and advancing toward the future...

http://tinyurl.com/675arys



Debt approaches historic high

Liberty Unbound Liberty Unbound
by Gary Jason

02/28/11

A recent report went virtually unnoticed, given the uprisings of oppressed peoples from Libya and Egypt to Wisconsin and Indiana. (In the last two cases I refer to the uprisings of the taxpayers against the tax eaters.) It turns out that the government debt of this fabulously progressive nation now exceeds its GDP. Yes, if you add what the federal, state, and local governments owe to creditors, the sum exceeds what the county produces in a year, which is about $15.1 trillion...

http://libertyunbound.com/node/489


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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