Jail the Thieves

Senators Warren, McCain, Cantwell and King (two Dems, one Rep, one independent) unveiled the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson lucidly explains why it is excellent legislation.

One Planet, One Justice

Solidarity from the people of Syria:

Planetquake

Anyone who read this blog regularly over the past two years knew it was coming: the planetquake against neoliberalism which was going to make the protest wave of 2011-2012 look like the prologue it indeed was. And now it begins.

Mass protests from Gezi Park to Rio Janeiro.
 Global dissidents are revealing that neoliberalism is nothing but the freedom of the 0.1% to put the 99.9% in a planet-sized prison.

Economists demolish the plutocratic swindle of euroliberalism.

The women of Planet Earth will not be silenced by Third World ethno-fundamentalists or First World petro-fundamentalists.

It's our planet.

And we're going to take it back.

Feed by feed, blog by blog, pixel by pixel.

And the Children Will Lead Us...

Egyptian school-child explains Tahrir 2.0, in a performance which puts most sociologists, mainstream journalists, pundits and politicians to shame.