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Posts Tagged ‘history’
REQUIRED VIEWING: Four Horsemen
Posted: 2014/02/12 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: economics, Four Horsemen, history, propaganda
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BTR News: Woman locked up and kids taken away for being poor in SC? | BLACK TALK RADIO NETWORK™
Posted: 2014/01/31 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: history, justice, poor, revolution, Trotsky
BTR News: Woman locked up and kids taken away for being poor in SC? | BLACK TALK RADIO NETWORK™.
We tried to hope that we escaped this ugly history in the humanist era but we’re getting back to the old historical trend: getting rid of the poor unless they are readily exploitable has been the age-old goal of the elites; the one political-economic principle that has held since stratified societies emerged in what we call “civilization”. Sometimes people were able to make themselves valuable and thus get some scrapes off the table, and very rarely, people were able to organize and topple an elite. This is the constant struggle that is required to go beyond survival and what Trotsky called “revolution in permanence” (or at least my interpretation).
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A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give to the few. (Martin Luther King, Jr, 1959)
Posted: 2014/01/20 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: civil rights, equality, history, justice, Martin Luther King, MLK, opportunity, propaganda, socialism
A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give to the few.
(Martin Luther King, Jr, 1959)Watch Glenn Ford (from Black Agenda Report) on The Real News Network talk about Dr. King’s legacy here:
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The Tragic History of U.S. Military Supremacy Having the most expensive and destructive military does not make the American people safer (Sandy Davies, Alternet)
Posted: 2013/10/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: alternet, empirialism, Foreign Policy, history, military, military industrial complex, Sandy Davies, United States, Vietnam, Wars and Conflicts
Did you realize that, since the end of the American War in Vietnam, we have spent at least $17 trillion – our entire national debt – on war and preparation for war? But the US still hasn’t won a major war since 1945. As Richard Barnet wrote in 1972, “…at the very moment the number one nation has perfected the science of killing, it has become an impractical instrument of political domination.” So why do we do it?
Sandy Davies, the author and frequent guest on the show
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Yes it’s true that America’s income gap is widest since the Great Depression (NPR), but It’s even worse that that:
Posted: 2013/09/11 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: capitalism, Economic inequality, Great Depression, history, income, justice, Kleptocracy, lobbying, NPR, unions, United States, Wall Street, wealth
Yes it’s true that America’s income gap is widest since the Great Depression (NPR), but It’s even worse that that:
- This is just income and doesn’t include the wealth already amassed by the wealthy so the real difference in economic well-being is much larger.
- Back in the 30s Americans had effective labor unions and most were aware of the situation they were facing. Today, this is no longer the case so the efforts to correct this imbalance are very weak.
- The political parties in the 30s had some accountability to the majority and not only to their wealthy corporate owners. Hence FDR was willing and able to represent “main-street” and not only “Wall-street” despite strong pressure, and even an attempted coup, by the “banksters.”
- While it was certainly a painful collapse of the economy, the Great Depression was in the middle of a very long period of growth in wages and standards of living for the majority of Americans. This period ended in the mid 70s and for the vast majority of Americans, things have been getting worse for 3 decades and getting catastrophic in the last few years. In this context, the long term, irreversible, damage is much worse today than in the 30s.
Consider a bad flu hitting a strong young person as opposed to a chronically ill old person: same disease but worse effects and dismal prognosis :'(
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 