Guardian.co.uk - Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals

This study of the amount of tax dollars that are stolen from the nations where the wealth is made is almost surely one of the main reasons Romney refuses to release more than a piddling two years of tax returns. Where is Romney's wealth?

Guardian.co.uk - Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals

Farewell, Alex, My Friend » Counterpunch

It was possible to have often disagreed with Alex Cockburn and still believe it's important to recognize his contribution to our struggle and know he will be missed.

Farewell, Alex, My Friend » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Recent right-wing nonsense

Mitt Romney: "To say something like that is not just foolishness, it's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in America."
What is "that"? Obama said that if an entrepreneur succeeds in business that he or she doesn't do it on his or her own but with the help of others and a government built infrastructure. Romney says that's insulting to every entrepreneur. I wish we could just LOL. In any sane society this man would be made to sit in the corner with a dunce hat on his head. In this society he is running for president.

Michael Goodwin in today's (7/22/12) N.Y. Post: "It was inevitable that a left-leaning news organization would be the first to inject politics into the Colorado massacre story."
Which "left-leaning publication" could he be talking about? He goes on: "ABC News performed down to type..." It certainly is nice to welcome ABC into the family of "left-leaning publications".

"I believe it was all god's plan and for me to second guess it or judge it...." So said George Zimmerman about his shooting and killing unarmed teen Trevon Martin. it would seem, if Zimmerman was carrying out amyone's plan, it was much more the devil's plan he was carrying out. But I suspect it was his own.

How much more insanity do we have to put up with before we collectively say Basta! Enough insanity.

"Fuel on the Fire": Author Greg Muttit on Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.

If you remember in 2004 & 2005 (and Chelsea neighbors even now)at every anti-war demonstration there were signs declaring "No Blood For Oil" and all the administration denials. Now we learn in Greg Muttit's new book "Fuel on the Fire" & in this interview from Democracy Now this morning that the spilling of American, allied & mainly Iraqui blood was in fact spilled to
enrich the oil companies. They seem to be the main beneficiaries of the invasion & occupation.

"Fuel on the Fire": Author Greg Muttit on Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq, Arab Spring

Your Friday the 13th Daily Kos Multimedia Morning - July 13, 2012

Your Friday the 13th Daily Kos Multimedia Morning - July 13, 2012

Woody Guthrie at 100: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Will Kaufman Honor the "Dust Bowl Troubadour"

Who better to acknowledge the founding of the U.S. than Woodie Guthrie & Pete Seeger. Who better to cut through the triumphalism that pollutes the air on July 4th. Here they are:

Woody Guthrie at 100: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Will Kaufman Honor the "Dust Bowl Troubadour"