Wétiko could be cured. The afflicted man was given warmth, contact and enough to eat; he was given services to the sick and the elderly and to be with children, always in the midst of the community. And at some point he knew again what life was about and who he actually was: part of a social fabric, child of the earth.
Audio: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, 3 hr 19 min (tags)
She was an anti-communist and anti-Soviet after being born as a Jew in St. Petersberg before the 1917 revolution.
Demonstrates how capitalism works using the board game Monopoly as an example. CC-BY-NC-SA
Feinstein And Boxer Want To Make Vaccines More Mandatory (tags)
Senators Feinstein And Boxer Want To End The Right To Refuse Vaccines For Personal Belief
The Socialist Origins of the Pledge of Allegiance (tags)
Francis Bellamy, a Christian socialist, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 as a critique of the rampant greed, misguided materialism, and hyper-individualism of the Gilded Age. But you'd never know that by reading CNN contributor Bob Greene's column earlier this week called "The Peculiar History of the Pledge of Allegiance."
Money can so easily change circumstances. Just a little bit can help ease the stress of worrying about how the rent or mortgage will be paid on any given month. A small amount extra can make the difference between getting your kid what they need for school or not, like a new or even used computer or some school clothes. With just a few extra in the way of cash, there may not have to be the monthly juggling act of figuring which bills to pay and which to put off. And making up such seemingly miniscule increments of ground regarding getting current on bills and/or debt can really help take a load off a person's mind, if only until the next paycheck. Most of us have been there, and if not probably will at some point or another in life.
Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality
Some Very Good Reasons To Support Single Payer Health Insurance (tags)
The american public well fall in love with single payer health insurance the more they learn about it.
Solidarity to Occupy Oakland General Strike (tags)
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the union of the ground staff of Philippine Airlines, and Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines), the independent party of the working class in the Philippines, stand shoulder to shoulder with the Occupy Oakland protesters. We too struggle against corporate greed and capitalist globalization with its destructive impact on the workers and the youth. Truly the movement against corporate greed and capitalist globalization is international in scope.
Video: Bernie Sanders, July 1, 2011 (tags)
Sign the letter on the debt and shifting costs to the lower and middle classes!
The Crisis, Money and Us (tags)
"One we had a coordinated social market economy. This `Rhine' capitalism embodied the insight gained in bitter experience that totally freed markets are self-destructive. This insight was lost somewhere between Friedman and Hayek, Thatcher and Reagan.."
Choosing your words wisely: The language of Obama's Oval Office speech (Steve's Grammar) (tags)
When the Water Dragon rises from the Sea as we have seen in 2010 it is time to pay attention to what the earth is telling us. We are all integrally connected on this planet and our mother is angry because of the arrogance and greed of men.
The Beauty of the Supreme Court's Decision on Corporate Personhood (tags)
Honesty is a beautiful thing.
VIDEO: Agenda for a New Economy - David Korten (tags)
Fallen Stars: On the Greed of Bankers and a New Morality (tags)
The economic ethicist Ulrich Thielemann explains how greed, false theories and the herd instinct caused the massive financial crisis. They had the theory when we make profits that is ultimately good for everyone.
Greed is the Nature of the System (tags)
Politics was corrupted byt he economy and lost control to the economy. In the private enterprise system, there are too many incentives that oppose the public interest. When company pensions end, workers speculate. When high profits are the norm, companies speculate.
NO TO BUSH-PELOSI BAILOUT OF WALL STREET GREED! TIME FOR PEOPLE’S ACTION AND REAL CHANGE! (tags)
The Bush-Pelosi proposed law bailing out Wall Street capitalist greed and hyper-profit,will hit the American poor and middle class even harder, and prolong the crisis. Time to stop the bill! Time to change Wall Street-coddling politicians! Time to go into the streets and make the people's voice heard!
Philippines: Greed, Corruption and Illegitimate Debt (tags)
Greed is defined as an excessive or uncontrolled desire for or pursuit of money, wealth, food, or other possessions especially when this denies the same goods to others. It is reprehensible acquisitiveness, an insatiable longing for power, and supremacy in order to advance individual interests at the cost of other's well being.
Banking- and Mortgage Fraud (tags)
The whole great world of money is infected by the banal greed for more and more. Wasn't the art of making more money out of money the most noble and top-paid pursuit? Deregulation and liberalization have consequences for democracy and the economy.
Global Capitalism: the Scourge of Democracy (tags)
global capitalism is an economic Colt 45 for the times
Greed and graduation.
Consevative's Almighty Values Debunked (tags)
Aren't you sick of hearing about the Conservative's Almighty Values?
Open letter to humanity (tags)
End all hostility, war, terrorism, imposition, oppression, destruction and violence, employed by or organized in the name of religion, politics, commerce, commodity, economics, revolution, greed, exclusion, equality, addiction, favoritism, monopoly, love, hatred, freedom or peace.
Corporate Greed In Health (tags)
Some short notes from health care column in the Peoples Weekly World on corporate greed in health care.
Another rant about survival (tags)
Hiya dear readers. Sometimes I just don't understand. We can do better than this. It requires justice however.
Pentagon's Betting Parlor of Assassinations and Coups (tags)
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we cant forget the past (tags)
the slaughter of 30,000 socialists remembered
132 anniversary of mass slaughter at Paris Commune (tags)
why have we forgotten the slaughter of over 30,000 visionaries in Paris in 1871
NeoCons have picked the next King of Iran.
Thousands rally in capital against war and greed (tags)
WASHINGTON – For four days last week, the capital echoed with marching feet and chants of “corporate greed has got to go” and “No war for oil!”
Main St. goes to Wall St. (tags)
NEW YORK – Workers chanting, “Who’s city? Our city!” rallied here outside the New York Stock Exchange with laid-off workers from WorldCom, Enron and Arthur Andersen to tell Corporate America, “No more business as usual!”
President Bush Announces Greed Office Defense Initiative (tags)
New cabinet-level office will help fight War on Capitalist Greed
Greed and the Gay Press (tags)
Greed has taken over the reins of the gay press - interlocking friendships and mutual assistance pacts keep the real news of the community from seeing the light of day.
America Did this to itself. (tags)
It is the last thing the "Flock" wants to admit. Why? Because arab terrorists are an easy target. Kind of like Hiroshima.
A protest sign used at Bush's appearance at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, May 29th.