by Vi Ransel

"Just Another Word...For Nuthin' Left to Lose". ⁽¹⁾ Read more »

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Keane Bhatt

Counterpunch, March 9, 2010

Keane Bhatt: Recently you signed a letter to the Guardian protesting the militarization of emergency relief. It criticized a prioritization of security and military control to the detriment of rescue and relief. Read more »

By Noam Chomsky

January 21, 2010 will go down as a dark day in the history of American democracy, and its decline. The editors of the New York Times did not exaggerate when they wrote that the Supreme Court decision that day "strikes at the heart of democracy" by having "paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and intimidate elected officials into doing their bidding" -- more explicitly, for permitting corporate managers to do so, since current laws permit them to spend shareholder money without consent.

Nor does Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at N.Y.U. School of Law, exaggerate when he writes that this exercise of the radical judicial activism that the rightwing claims to deplore "matches or exceeds Bush v. Gore in ideological or partisan overreaching by the court. In that case, the court reached into the political process to hand the election to one candidate. Today it reached into the political process to hand unprecedented power to corporations." Read more »

“Capitalism” is regarded favorably by a majority of the Americans, but it is a thin majority.

Certain segments of the American public – specifically, young people and Democrats – rate both “isms”, "Capitalism" and "Socialism", almost equally.

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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

- Nelson Mandela

The End of Poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary film by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. Poverty began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, global poverty has reached daring new levels due to unfair debt, forced privatization, economic colonialism, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.

Watch Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interview filmmaker, Philippe Diaz. Read more »

Just 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% of Americans say socialism is better. 27% are not sure which is better.

Adults under age 30 are evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. But take note that 66% of young Americans do not prefer capitalism. Thirty-somethings are more supportive of capitalism, 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better. Read more »