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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com ALEC's So-Called "Right to Work" Bill as Political Revenge in Michigan Posted by jacob on 11 December, 2012 Lisa Graves As concerned workers come together across Michigan in protest, partisan politicians are poised to make one of the strongholds for America's blue-collar worker rights into a so-called "Right to Work" (RTW) state -- in accordance with the ALEC blueprint to change to state laws at the behest of some of the biggest corporations in the world. read more Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense in the Next Decade? Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 David Callahan Washington is in a fiscal panic, yet surprisingly few people are asking an obvious question: Why in the world is the Obama Administration proposing to spend $8 trillion on security over the next decade? read more Right to Work: As Goes Michigan, So Goes The Nation Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 Ruth Conniff As the world watches massive labor protests at the state capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, today, Wisconsinites are seeing a repeat of the struggle in Madison two years ago. read more The Gospel of Wealth Fails the Inequity Test in Primates Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 Eric Michael Johnson Fairness is the basis of the social contract. As citizens we expect that when we contribute our fair share we should receive our just reward. When social benefits are handed out unequally or when prior agreements are not honored it represents a breach of trust. read more Democracy and the Ecology of Transportation Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 John Buell (Image: via communitybridge.blogspot.com)There is no question as to whether New York City and the surrounding coastal communities of the tri-state area will be rebuilt. But will these communities be reconstructed to serve the vast majority of working people or the interests of the economic and cultural elites that have dominated city life? read more Why Race Matters After Sandy Posted by andrea on 11 December, 2012 Manissa McCleave Maharawal Isabelle Nastasia During the fall of 1962, residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn saw the trash accumulating on their sidewalks and realized that the city didn’t care about them the way it did about others. Their children had to play in stinky garbage while other neighborhoods had trees and parks. They complained to elected officials and the Sanitation Department, but the problem never got better. read more How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet Posted by andrea on 11 December, 2012 David Vine “Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog. “Ah, sì,” I replied in my barely passable Italian. “Bene,” he answered. Good. read more Mr. President, End This War Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 Jann S. Wenner As a teenager, Barack Obama liked to get high in the back of a friend's VW bus. His hallmark: a smoking technique he called Total Absorption. He knows, as did George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him, what we all know: that pot is essentially harmless. read more John Boehner Has No Mandate Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 John Nichols House Speaker John Boehner has grown increasingly belligerent in his “fiscal cliff” fight with the Obama administration. read more The Budget Thugs: What Do They Know About the Economy? Posted by jon on 11 December, 2012 Dean Baker Ed Haislmaier, a senior scholar at the Heritage Foundation, made himself famous in this video where he appears to be assaulting people protesting a conference organized by Fix the Debt. While this act of bad temper may be uncharacteristic of the public behavior of this corporate-sponsored crusade to cut Social Security and Medicare, it does reflect the way in which they hope to bully their agenda through the political process. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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