TIm A. Wise (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University): US food reserves at an historic low as biofuels, climate change and speculation exacerbate food crisis.
‘The Union List’
The Drought and the Coming Food Price Bubble
by n0madic, posted on Monday, August 13th, 2012 at 9:05 amMoveOn.org presidential campaign ad: Pickpocket
by n0madic, posted on Friday, August 10th, 2012 at 10:30 amfrom MoveOn.org Political Action
“Mitt Romney’s creepy hand wants your $2k to pay for tax breaks for his millionaire and billionaire friends. Tell Mitt Romney: Get your hand out of my pocket!”
Grassroots Collaborative: Fulton on the River Action, Chicago, August 7th
by n0madic, posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2012 at 9:27 amPDA-Chicago: Don’t Take Our Children’s Money!
by n0madic, posted on Monday, August 6th, 2012 at 8:00 amfrom PDA-Chicago
Join PDA Chicago as we stand with the Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign this Wednesday, August 8, to protest public tax money going to corporate welfare.
5:30-8:00 p.m., Lake Park Ave. and E. 53rd St., Chicago, 60615
$5.2 million of property taxes intended for our public schools is going to Hyatt Hotels, a company that doesn’t need it. No more corporate welfare!
Found Objects for a Friday Afternoon: Gore Vidal on the History of the National Security State
by n0madic, posted on Friday, August 3rd, 2012 at 11:00 amThe legendary author discusses his thesis on the construction of the national security state.
Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
by n0madic, posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 at 1:59 pmOnce Upon a Trickle Down: The Rise and Fall of Trickle Down Economics
by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 at 11:02 pmfrom the Center for American Progress
Barlett and Steele on “The Betrayal of the American Dream”
by n0madic, posted on Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 10:42 amfrom Democracy Now!
The famed award-winning investigative reporting team of Donald Barlett and James Steele have just published a new book, “The Betrayal of the American Dream,” a followup to their landmark bestseller, “America: What Went Wrong.” As Republicans and Democrats continue disputing who should bear the brunt of the tax burden, Barlett and Steele argue that America’s middle class has been decimated over the years due to policies governing not only taxes but also bank regulations, trade deficits and pension funds. Their book chronicles how the American middle class has been systematically impoverished and its prospects thwarted in favor of a new ruling elite. Barlett and Steele have worked together for more than 40 years, sharing two Pulitzer prizes and two National Magazine awards. The duo joins us for the hour to discuss the assault on the middle class, the great tax heist, deregulation, the end of retirement, the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, the 2012 election and more.
Parts Two and Three after the jump.
Robert Pollin: Full Employment Is Possible
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 1:31 pmfrom GRITtv with Laura Flanders
The latest book from Robert Pollin, economics professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the Political Economy Research Institute, is “Back to Full Employment.” If the title seems bold, the road map Pollin lays out behind it is hardly outlandish. In this conversation with Laura Flanders, Pollin explains how the Federal Reserve can grow employment tremendously, without the need for any legislation.
