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The problem with the water debate, to the extent there is one, is the way it’s spun. Long dominated by eco-warrior do-gooders, the fight for water has been framed as boringly and abstractly as possible. How is the “environment” supposed…

Posted on: December 16th, 2009 | Comments (15)

Will Be Jailed For Food: To Poorest Americans Incarceration Is An All-Inclusive Welfare Getaway Opportunity

Article originally published by Vice magazine Prospects have never been good for ex-cons. Even during good economic times they hover between 50 and 75 percent unemployment, and generally take home about nine grand a year. No wonder 70 percent of…

Posted on: December 3rd, 2009 | Comments (41)

Elite Versus Elitny

This article was first published in The eXile on June 23, 2003. As Russians openly strive to become elitny, America’s dominant oligarchs and feeble intellectuals live in a state of grotesque denial about their elitism. Billionaires act like hicks and…

Posted on: November 29th, 2009 | Comments (40)

Bailed-Out AIG Goons Force Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

This article was first published on AlterNet What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, predatory credit card rates, exorbitant bank fees and obscene Wall Street bonuses. But we’re being robbed in other, sneakier ways, too. It…

Posted on: November 26th, 2009 | Comments (36)

California's Student Body Isn't Being Fleeced Just By Wall Street Scammers, But By Grandma and Grandpa As Well

This article was first published by TruthDig (truthdig.com). In recent days, students have been rallying and barricading themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent hike in tuition fees. Last Wednesday and Thursday, scuffles broke…

Posted on: November 25th, 2009 | Comments (45)

The Story of How Beverly Hills Billionaire Farmers Stewart and Lynda Resnick Have Privatized California's Water Supply

This article was first published on Alternet.org A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And they’ve pulled in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without any real public outrage. The amount of…

Posted on: November 19th, 2009 | Comments (27)

How To Solve The Housing Glut: Ship Poor People Into Abandoned Suburbs and Privatize Inner-city Projects

How about this for a plan for sprucing up our nation’s crumbling housing projects: ship lazy black folks out to the subprime suburbs, privatize their apartment buildings and hand them over to real estate developers. That’s what T.A. Frank, a…

Posted on: November 17th, 2009 | Comments (25)