Democracy 2.0

I'll let the fruit explain.

Egypt: Unrest continues throughout the country.

Taming wealthy, unproductive "moochers" will require a populist campaign to stop them. Here's how we can do it

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium, warns that recent cosmic activity should be seen as “a shot across our bow.”

The way to stop filling up prisons is to end the War on Drugs, curb inequality and change our perspective on class.

A closer look at five Republican Congressmen and women who have aspirations for a Senate seat in 2014 but who voted against VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act. 

A duo of Democratic lawmakers have spent the years since the financial crisis calling for a financial transactions tax, a small fee on individual trades that would slow down markets and make them safer for investors and the country as a whole.

This poster makes a good point. Something is clearly wrong when you treat your enemy prisoners worse than your own citizens. When enemies are entitled to better conditions than your average homeless person, it's worth a closer look.
To add insult to injury, while prisoners of war (pardon, enemy combatants) had, at the very least, free medical care, a roof over their heads and warm meals, past studies have indicated that up to a third of all of adult homeless men were US veterans and as such are, without the protections guaranteed by the Geneva Convention. 
(One bright spot: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported that the number of homeless ex-service men and women has declined by 7% in 2012- far better than the national rate. )
This informational poster, however, did its job. It got me thinking about the issue of homelessness and entitlements. 

We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and m...

It is suddenly the political fashion to denounce the high-spending habits of the country's civil servants after leaders denoted corruption a public evil.

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As Washington lawmakers pushes new austerity measures, economist Richard Wolff calls for a radical restructuring of the U.S. economic and financial systems.

More on what the Federal Reserve is really up to and how we got here (exposing the culprits behind the fed)

Andrew Weil says the health care system depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they show up. Prevention is key

Of the many critical moments in American history, the year 1963 stands out as one of the most climactic.

Perhaps it was mainly because that year culminated, as we all know, with the shocking murder of a president in Dallas.

Yet there was so many things going on and so many stories being told just before that awful moment that were lost in the shadow that fell over the nation after the assassination.
In this post, I'd like to follow a chain of change that was taking place in that year and why the events of that particular year still reverberate today.

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda   In 2008, a private sector financial cri...

I don't expect we'll see any Republicans willing to support his legislation, but good for Sen.