August 2016

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Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR30NJI
Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR30NJI
09 Aug 2016

The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today

Just as past public policies created the racial wealth gap, current policy widens it. By Joshua Holland AUGUST 8, 2016 WN:…
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030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
09 Aug 2016

The Neocon Project for a New Democratic Party

photo above: White House Monday, 08 August 2016 08:45 J.P. SOTTILE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt: Unlike Hillary Clinton,…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
08 Aug 2016

The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism

Posted on Aug 8, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage…
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A light from the crowd is seen past Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, during a goodbye reception at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, July 22, 2016. A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in a speech that signaled a more serious turn heading into the general election, Trump ripped into former primary competitor Ted Cruz, revisiting their ugly feud over Cruzs wife and father. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A light from the crowd is seen past Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, during a goodbye reception at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, July 22, 2016. A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in a speech that signaled a more serious turn heading into the general election, Trump ripped into former primary competitor Ted Cruz, revisiting their ugly feud over Cruzs wife and father. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images
05 Aug 2016

Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad

Wired: Author: Issie Lapowsky  Business Date of Publication: 08.03.16. Donald Trump is incredibly dangerous! PERIOD. an excerpt: This morning on…
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