By David Green | CounterPunch | March 3, 2017 One does not have to plow through Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) in order to grasp the radical changes in income and wealth inequality over the past four decades which fundamentally determined Donald Trump’s victory last November. Instead, one can examine a few […]
RT | March 3, 2017 Excavations at the site of a former Catholic home for unwed mothers, their children, and orphans in Ireland have uncovered “significant quantities” of human remains buried on the grounds. An investigation was launched after reports surfaced in 2014 of a mass grave on the grounds of the former ‘mother and […]
By Jennifer Calfas – The Hill – 02/21/17 Hillary Clinton is urging President Trump to speak out against the surge of anti-Semitic threats and attacks around the country. “JCC threats, cemetery desecration & online attacks are troubling & they need to be stopped. Everyone must speak out, starting w/ @POTUS,” Clinton tweeted early Tuesday. Vandals […]
By Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism | February 3, 2017 The Wall Street Journal has an important new story, The End of Employees, on how the big company love of outsourcing means that traditional employment has declined and is expected to fall further. Some key sections of the article: Never before have American companies tried […]
By Gilad Atzmon | February 2, 2017 Today, the Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported that the number of antisemitic incidents in Britain in 2016 were the highest on record. The CST’s statistics show that there were 1,309 incidents of ‘Jew hatred’ last year — a 36 per cent increase on the previous 12 months. Of course, […]
By Hunter Wallace | Occidental Dissent | January 30, 2017 You can never please these people. You really can’t. “Holocaust denial is alive and well in the highest offices of the United States. It is being spread by those in President Trump’s innermost circle. It may have all started as a mistake by a new […]
RT | January 27, 2017 Hundreds of native Hawaiians are preparing to gather at Mark Zuckerberg’s large Kauai estate to protest a six-foot wall erected to keep them out from their ancestral land. “People are furious down here with him,” said protest organizer Joe Hart, as quoted by Business Insider. Hart, a farmer who lives […]
By Charles Hugh Smith | of two minds | January 23, 2017 Meanwhile, back in reality, household income for the bottom 95% has declined while the owners of capital and their privileged, protected servants in the Establishment have gorged themselves on private wealth. As noted yesterday in The Collapse of the Left, the working class has […]
By Brian Foley | CounterPunch | January 25, 2017 I get it. You don’t like Trump. I’ve wanted to say that to Facebook Friends who’ve spent the past several months hate-posting against Trump. Most posts aren’t funny, creative, or informative. When not merely petulant, they’re raw unfiltered anger. People might as well post videos of […]
Oxford Trinity College High Table. I doubt these professors have anything to fear from a food tax. By Winky from Oxford, UK (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | November 19, 2016 A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive […]
