Category Archives: Progressive Politics
Arise And Bow Down to All Nations. Central Park, Manahatta – World View
1 you wear the city on your sleeve, a mustard seed in the heart your garden-variety prophecy ready to blossom while the long-arm of the sommelier law keeps the lock-kneed drunk on fake power O, you city of throngs hovering nea...
Spain Faces Bank Run – Economy
“I have been working all my life, and if someone takes my money, I will kill someone.” - anonymous woman to Minister of Finance May 21, 2012 The latest available statistics on bank deposits show that €50 billion euros have left Spain...
Chicago Police Frame Antiwar Activists on “terrorism” Charges – World News
21 May 2012 A total of five men have been arrested in Chicago and charged with planning to make bombs or Molotov cocktails to use during the NATO summit, Chicago police officials have announced. The bogus character of the charges is
Chicago Anti-NATO March: Upbeat, Massive, Conscious, Determined – World News
Our informal guess was over 10,000. I thought it had quite a radical vibe. There were common themes of opposing empire, war, and the oppressions of capitalism. Anyone watching would have seem many diverse voices and creative expressions — but
United States. CDC Targeting Baby Boomers for Mass Vaccination Agenda – Health/Medicine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has drafted a recommendation that ALL Baby Boomers (people born between 1945 and 1965) be tested for the hepatitis C virus and subsequently vaccinated. The CDC estimates 800,000 people are infec...
Message From SYRIZA to Chicago Anti-NATO Protests + Photos: Massive, Conscious, Determined – Greece
May 20, 2012 Dear comrades, dear brothers and sisters of the anti-war movement We salute your mobilisations against the NATO Summit [in Chicago] and we send you our solidarity from Greece. We don’t need to say much about the reasons to rais...
Quebec: Students Mobilise Against Draconian Law Aimed At Breaking Four-month Strike – World News
The strike of post-secondary students in Quebec has taken a dramatic turn with the May 18 approval by the provincial government of a special law to cancel the school year at strike-bound institutions and outlaw protest activity deemed disruptive of
Public Opinion Snapshot: Millennials Want a More Equitable Society
College-age voters are tired of our economic system favoring the wealthy, and their views contrast sharply with conservative ideology, writes Ruy Teixeira.
The Global Importance of Government Guarantees in Mortgage Finance
David Min details the several ways the U.S. government guarantee on residential mortgages works and then compares those processes with the very different but equally important government role in guaranteeing home mortgages across Europe.
6 Reasons Why the Obama Administration’s Iran Strategy Is the Best Way Forward
A new series examines why the Obama administration's multifaceted campaign to prevent Iran from acrquiring nuclear weapons can succeed.
