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"

Democracy Now! Live Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling: Tune in Thursday 10-11am EDT

Despite the obvious inadequacied of the health-care law, it is a desperately needed 1st step needed by most of the 99%. If the Supes decide against it they will be acting to defeat Obama not uphold the Constitution, which of course is their sworn duty.


Democracy Now! Live Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling: Tune in Thursday 10-11am EDT

Opinion: Some Dems turning on Obama - by Juan Williams (TheHill.com)

The Republicans can't hurt Obama without help from right-wing Democrats. It seems that now they have it. Of course, it's been there all along, remember the congressional fight over the health-care law - Blue Dog Democrats were fighting Obama even  then, but it seems to be getting worse.

Opinion: Some Dems turning on Obama - by Juan Williams (TheHill.com)

Luke Kirby last night

Luke Kirby, one of the stars of "Take This Waltz", last night at The Sunshine Cinemas (on East Houston St.) after a Q&A following the NYT Film Club screening of the film
(photo by Dan Cohen)

PACBI-Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books

This is a letter from Alice Walker to an Israeli publisher explaining why she won't let them translate "The Color Purple" into Hebrew and publish it.

PACBI-Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books

Who are the immigrants?

"A fitting response to AZ's desire to repeal the 14th Amendment" This photo, I stole from Emma's Revolution's website, says it all

Guantanamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoners Still Held, but Cleared for Release at Least Five Years Ago

It seems as if the wrong people are in jail

Guantanamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoners Still Held, but Cleared for Release at Least Five Years Ago

South Ferry, Shelter Island

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested as Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Here's the full story from this morming's "Democracy Now"

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested as Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Have you seen/heard anything about this on our corporate-owned media? No, quelle surprise!

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Eugene Polley, 1915-2012

The next time your sitting on the sofa and turn on the TV or change channels or, most importantly, silence a commercial look at the device in your hand and think of Eugene Polley, its inventor. Mr. Polley died on Sunday. Yes, it's sadly true that he got paid only a thousand dollar bonus by his employer Zenith (capitalism, anyone) & his invention was replaced by one more like the remote in your hand developed by another Zenith employee, Robert Adler. It has also, as the NYT suggests, "caused decades of domestic discord." (We solve that problem by having two remotes.)

Ultimately Mr. Polley provided his own eulogy (NYT again): "The flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the remote control is the next most important. It's almost as important as sex."

Let's applaude the creator of one of the only twentieth century inventions that doesn't kill people or bring down the economy. Something very rare indeed.

Interview on 'Voices from the Edge' radio show | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Interview on 'Voices from the Edge' radio show | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama's Targeted Assassinations and Latin America's Break from the U.S.

Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama's Targeted Assassinations and Latin America's Break from the U.S.

Maurice Sendak has gone where the wild things are😱

After giving us many years of pleasure both as children 👫and then again as adults👨👵 Maurice Sendak has gone where the wild things are😪💔