Detroit collapsing into Third World status. Coming to Your City soon?
Editors note: The Power Elite must be over joyed when they pick up their morning news paper (most of which they control) and read a story like this. Does it not fall into their plan [...]
View ArticleCongresswoman Calls for Drug-Testing the 1%, Not just the Poor
‘We might really save some money by drug-testing folks on Wall Street, who might have a little cocaine before they get their deal done.’ — US Rep. Gwen Moore By: Deirdre Fulton A Wisconsin...
View ArticleCorporate CEO Pay 276 Times the Average Worker’s Last Year
Corporate CEO Pay Was 276 Times the Average Worker’s Income Last Year Chief executives at the most powerful corporations in America earned an average of $15.5 million in 2015 By: Nika Knight As global...
View ArticleOne Photo of the Olympics Sums Up Everything Wrong With Society
This One Photo of the Olympics Sums Up Everything Wrong With Society By: Vic Bishop The 31st Olympic summer games are underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and thousands of athletes and spectators from...
View ArticleAn Escalating War On Low-Income Americans
Escalating the War on Low-Income Families By: Paul Buchheit For the nation’s poor, things are not getting better. They are getting worse. Illinois Governor Rauner recently cut “Meals on Wheels” for...
View ArticleTent Cities Full Of Homeless Booming In Communities Across America
Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikes By: Michael Snyder Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over...
View ArticleAfter Watching the Presidential Debate … My Thoughts
By TLB Contributing Author: Lucille Femine After suffering through the last presidential debate, here’s what I think. A friend posted this today: I have many types of friends on facebook. Some are...
View ArticleThis Is How a Vaccine Billionaire Lives…
Preface by Christopher Wyatt | TLB staff writer/documentary producer This is all anyone really needs to know about vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry. We live in a world where there is a pill for...
View ArticleHalf Of The Population Of The World Is Dirt Poor – And The Global Elite Want...
Half Of The Population Of The World Is Dirt Poor – And The Global Elite Want To Keep It That Way by The Economic Collapse Could you survive on just $2.50 a day? According to Compassion [...]
View ArticleTrump Budget: Real Cuts vs. Media Version of “Cuts”
The Trump Budget: Real Cuts vs. the Media Version of “Cuts” By: Ryan McMaken One of the cardinal rules of government accounting and rhetoric is to call any slowdown in the growth rate of government...
View ArticleNonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. By TLB Contributing Author: Robert J. Burrowes Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated....
View ArticleGermany: Migrant Crisis Delusions Fed by Media
Germany: Migrant Crisis Delusions VIJETA UNIYAL A report commissioned by the German government found that newly-arrived asylum seekers were behind more than 90% percent of the increase in violent...
View ArticleThe New Poverty: How austerity works to impoverish millions and leave...
The New Poverty – How austerity worked to impoverish millions and leave millions more close to crisis PADRAIC SCANLAN . The New Poverty. Stephen Armstrong. Verso. 2018. The aesthetic of neoliberalism...
View ArticleHepatitis Spikes as Poverty and Isolation Take Hold Among America’s Forgotten
Hepatitis Spikes as Poverty and Isolation Take Hold Among America’s Forgotten What’s happening in Michigan is the largest outbreak of hepatitis A in the state’s history. But Michigan is hardly unique:...
View ArticleAusterity is Just a Fancy Schmancy Name for Class War
Austerity is Just a Fancy Name for Class War TOMMY SHERIDAN The Tories and their billionaire backers and lickspittles in the mainstream media rarely mention the ‘class war’ because they are too busy...
View ArticleTHE DIALYSIS INDUSTRY… REGULATING IT WOULD PUT IT OUT OF BUSINESS
THE DIALYSIS INDUSTRY IS SPENDING $111 MILLION TO ARGUE THAT REGULATING IT WOULD PUT IT OUT OF BUSINESS by David Dayen THERE’S A NEW winner for the coveted title of most expensive ballot initiative...
View ArticleDemocracy Is Not For Sale: The struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Age of...
Democracy Not For Sale: The struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Age of Austerity in Greece On the 20th of November 2018, Agroecopolis, FIAN International and Transnational Institute will launch the...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Proposes Paying 1,000 Residents $1,000 A Month “With No Strings...
Chicago Mayor Proposes Paying 1,000 Residents $1,000 A Month “With No Strings Attached” (ZeroHedge) When it comes to US cities in dire financial straits, one stands out: the one that has the nation’s...
View ArticleRise in UK opioid prescriptions contributes to surge in overdose fatalities
ER Editor: This brief BBC report from a year ago titled NHS accused of fuelling rise in opioid addiction reveals that “GPs in England prescribed 23.8 million opioid-based painkillers in 2017, the...
View ArticleSanta Cannot Visit the UK This Year Due to COVID-19
Santa Cannot Visit the UK This Year Due to COVID-19 By TLB Contributing Partner: Christina England, BA, Hons Due to current Covid restrictions in the UK, Santa is unable to deliver any presents this...
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