Category: Politics
Major Media Sing Nuclear Praises
by Joseph Mangano | Jan 7, 2014 | EnvironmentThe nuclear power industry is having its roughest time since reactors were first conceived in the 1950s. Health risks are at the core of the problem. At Fukushima, huge amounts of radioactivity continue to pour into the Pacific Ocean. Nobody knows exactly where the three melted reactor cores are—somewhere in or under the buildings—since it […]
The Case for a Working Capitalism
by David Akadjian | Jan 7, 2014 | PoliticsI stumbled on the following quote from economist Ha-Joon Chang over the holidays: Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are—a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told. […]
2013: The Year of the Great Redistribution
by Robert Reich | Jan 6, 2014 | PoliticsOne of the worst epithets that can be leveled at a politician these days is to call him a “redistributionist.” Yet 2013 marked one of the biggest redistributions in recent American history. It was a redistribution upward, from average working people to the owners of America. The stock market ended 2013 at an all-time high—giving […]
Pope Francis and the Working Class
by Brian R. Corbin | Jan 6, 2014 | EconomyA simple “letter” can cement a tradition, forge alliances, defend the voiceless. Indeed, Catholic Social Teaching began with one. James Gibbons, the Archbishop of Baltimore, hand-delivered a letter to Pope Leo XIII in 1887, protesting the Archbishop of Quebec’s earlier condemnation of the newly formed Knights of Labor. In it, Gibbons positions himself and the […]
The Politics of Faith and Fusion
by Lou Dubose | Jan 6, 2014 | PoliticsRaleigh, North Carolina From a distance, North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement reads like a spontaneous reaction to Republican Governor Pat McCrory and the Republican supermajorities that control the General Assembly. Before adjourning this past September, North Carolina’s Tea Party-dominated General Assembly eliminated 5,200 teaching positions and 4,580 teacher assistants, they cut pre-K classes for […]
Bad Faith Documentary
