Do Businesses Hate Their Workers? (Income Disparity Myths Edition) (Yves Smith)

Nov. 10, 2009 (Naked Capitalism) -- In America, it isn’t hard to answer the question in the headline “yes.” The oft recited, “Our employees are our greatest asset” is pure Orwellian prattle; most com ...

Obama's Real Death Panels (Ted Rall)

Oct. 27, 2009 -- NEW YORK (uExpress) -- Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under intern ...

An interview with Stoneleigh - The case for deflation (Ilargi)

Dorothea Lange Family Travel June 1938. Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, bound for Krebs. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County. ...

Take America back from the banks (Dean Baker)

Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought Oct. 12, 2009 (Guardian) -- The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large nu ...

Afghanistan - The Proxy War (Andrew J. Bacevich)

Oct. 12, 2009 (Boston Globe) -- No serious person thinks that Afghanistan - remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nation-state - seriously matters to the United States. Yet with the war in its ...

War and peace prizes (Howard Zinn)

Nobel peace prize winer Henry Kissinger (right) with Richard Nixon. Photograph: AP The dismaying gift of the Nobel prize puts Barack Obama on the list of its winners who promised peace but prosecuted ...

TOON: Hollingsworth Hound "To Catch A Banker" (Ruben Bolling)

LINK: Democratic Underground

War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide In Iraq (The Brussels Tribunal)

Legal Case Filed Against 4 U.S. Presidents and 4 UK Prime Ministers Oct. 8, 2009 -- MADRID (Information Clearing House) -- Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pr ...

Genocide Forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey (Robert Fisk)

Robert Fisk A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people Oct. 8, 2009 (The Independent) -- In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping buil ...

I was so wrong (Garrison Keillor)

Even people who oppose regulation and don't mind manufacturing hamburger contaminated by E. coli deserve healthcare Oct. 7, 2009 (Salon) -- OK, it was wrong of me to say last week that we should deny ...

The War on Language (Chris Hedges)

Sept. 28, 2009 (TruthDig) -- There is a scene in “Othello” when the Moor is so consumed by jealousy and rage that he loses the eloquence and poetry that make him the most articulate man in Venice. He ...