A Festival of Lies - NYTimes.com

In Afghanistan, I laugh out loud whenever I hear Obama administration officials explaining that we just need to train more Afghan soldiers to fight and then we can leave. Is there anything funnier? Afghan men need to be trained to fight? They defeated the British and the Sov …

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Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com

First, families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t — all they need to do is ensure that debt grows more slowly than their tax base. The debt from World War II was never repaid; it just became increasingly irrelevant as the U.S.

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Naomi Wolf: How I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

"You are unlawfully creating a disruption. You are ordered to disperse." I approached him peacefully, slowly, gently and respectfully and said: "I am confused.

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» Dear "53 Percenters" — Jack Lewis, Author

I am 47 years old.  I put myself through college after serving as an army sergeant in Korea during the Cold War. I went on to earn a pilot’s license, professional certifications and a master’s degree.

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The Way Forward to Renewed Growth and Competitiveness

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What caused the wealth gap? - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com

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A Just Act of War - NYTimes.com

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'Reckless Endangerment': Morgenson, Rosner Name Names — Point Finger at Fannie Mae - Yahoo! Finance

‘Reckless Endangerment’: Morgenson, Rosner Name Names — Point Finger at Fannie Mae

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More Than a Résumé - NYTimes.com

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Guernica / Joshua Holland: Did Osama bin Laden Win the "War on Terror"?1;?

His goal was not some fantasy about establishing a worldwide caliphate or imposing “Sharia law” on Greenwich Village; having seen the Soviet Union decline in large part by bankrupting itself in an arms race with the U.S., with a huge assist from the Mujahade …

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The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness - NYTimes.com

IT is obvious that the nation’s desperate fiscal condition requires higher taxes on the middle class, not just the richest 2 percent.

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The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

The Republican position, set out in detail by Paul Ryan, the Republican chair of the congressional budget committee, is not really a budget plan at all.

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Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Whether one finds this state of affairs desirable or not, no rational person can describe them as the by-product of a Marxist, business-hating egalitarian. Quite the opposite.

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The national-greatness imperative: Why neocons think we need war | The Economist

Many neocons, I'm sure, earnestly believe American global hegemony is the way to worldwide peace, democracy, and liberty. However, it is also thought that striving to fulfill this role will save Americans from the amoral meaninglessness of liberal-democratic capitalism.

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Robert Reich: Budget Baloney: Why Social Security Isn't a Problem for 26 Years, and the Best Way to Fix It Permanently

Back in 1983, the ceiling was set so the Social Security payroll tax would hit 90 percent of all wages covered by Social Security. That 90 percent figure was built into the Greenspan Commission's fixes.

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Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution - NYTimes.com

Peaceful protest is best, he says — not for any moral reason, but because violence provokes autocrats to crack down. "If you fight with violence," Mr. Sharp said, "you are fighting with your enemy's best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero."

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The Experience Economy - NYTimes.com

As Cowen notes in his book, the automobile industry produced millions of jobs, but Facebook employs about 2,000, Twitter 300 and eBay about 17,000.

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John Fugelsang: Three Reasons the GOP Should Love the Public Option

it should have been you, Republicans. Can you imagine if YOU guys had led the fight for a public option? You'd have called it the 'Freedom of Care & Long-Term American Strength & Stability Bill.'

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What if the worst really is yet to come?

As Altman and Haass point out, the national debt was only about 35 percent of GDP just 12 years ago. Furthermore, the debt had been shrinking to the point that some thought it might even be paid off.

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Obama, the candidate of Goldman Sachs (unwilling to step on toes)

an extended analysis of the Obama administration from a perspective you rarely see fully aired on television(although those of us who read blogs are familiar with it.)

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Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Interactive Budget Puzzle.

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Safer Social Security - NYTimes.com

The White House has been handed a highly progressive reform plan for Social Security that could attract Republican support as well.

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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.com

Inequality is instead the result of specific policies, including tax policies, championed by Washington Democrats and Republicans alike as they conducted a bidding war for high-rolling donors in election after election.

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Kathleen Parker: I Led Media Assassination Of Sarah Palin (VIDEO)

After accusing Parker, a conservative opinion columnist for the Washington Post, of falling for Obama during the 2008 election, Ziegler than claimed that she

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National Greatness Agenda - NYTimes.com

In this climate, asking politicians to end the mortgage deduction and tax employer health care plans and raise capital gains taxes and cut benefits for affluent seniors is like asking them to jump on a buzzing sack full of live grenades. They won't do it.

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