Goldman Sachs’ profits soar as economic injustice continues…
Last Sunday (July 12, 2009), the New York Times reported on Goldman Sachs’ soaring profits (“For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits”). Here’s a telling passage: “The obsessive speculation has...
View Article“Another World Is Possible”– the struggle for Black and Palestinian freedom
As an African-American male, people have wondered why I chose to study Arabic and am involved in anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism. It’s an image that people are not used to seeing. However, if I...
View ArticleWhy Obama’s Debt Deal is Bad
After months of political theater coming across as partisan bickering over raising the debt ceiling limit to avoid default, the U.S. Congress passed a debt deal that President Barack Obama signed into...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t We Talking about the People’s Budget?
This week has been a rough week for the global economy. The stock market fell dramatically. S&P downgraded the U.S.’s credit rating from AAA, its highest rating, to AA+ for the first time in...
View ArticleOur deep economic crisis and the inadequacy of Obama’s jobs plan
The state of the economy remains one of the top issues in the media and in people’s minds. And rightly so. Last week, the Labor Department released a report stating that no new jobs were created in the...
View ArticleTrader tells truth to BBC…”Goldman Sachs rules the world”
This video has been sparking a lot of controversy on the Internet and the media — and for good reason. In a shocking display of honesty, independent trader, Alessio Rastani, openly said: “For most...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: a movement against oligarchy
It has been three months since the Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011. For the first few days, the movement was largely ignored by the mainstream media. Now it has gotten to the...
View ArticleWall Street was founded on slavery
Wall Street is a highly influential financial district but its history is rarely talked about. In order to understand the largesse of Wall Street and the system of global capitalism, it is crucial to...
View ArticleThe $1 trillion national security budget
With high unemployment, massive poverty, inequality, and a weak economic recovery, the economy is obviously the number-one issue in public consciousness. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney continue...
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