Philip Palij

  • Shared This Is What Tyranny Looks Like (News Headline)
    May 24, 2012 - 5:29am

    Land Of The Free? Don't fool yourselves - You've been had!

    "If you want to see what tyranny looks like, consider what happened to the estimated 75,000 protesters who took on the military-industrial complex at last weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago, after the mayor revoked protesters' attempts to lawfully assemble."

  • Shared The Rise of the New Economy Movement (Progressive Opinion)
    May 23, 2012 - 6:30am

    Just beneath the surface of traditional media attention, something vital has been gathering force and is about to explode into public consciousness. The “New Economy Movement” is a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up.

    Gar Alperovitz

    Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Among his most recent books are America Beyond Capitalism and (with Lew Daly) Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back.

  • Shared Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto! (Progressive Opinion)
    May 3, 2012 - 3:19am


    Between May 1 and May 26, a broad coalition of food, farm, health, public interest, and environmental groups all over the country, joined by leading organic food companies, will attempt to raise one million dollars to support the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, a citizens' ballot initiative, and other state GMO-labeling campaigns.

    Passing this law in California is the first critical step toward requiring GMO labeling in every state.

    The scientific evidence is clear: GMOs are hazardous. You have the right to know if your food contains GMOs. But you don't. Not yet. Because Monsanto has bought off the politicians and the regulatory agencies.

    It's time to stand up to Monsanto.
    It's time to take back our food supply.

  • Shared Vermont Legislature Passes Resolution Challenging Citizens United (News Headline)
    April 21, 2012 - 4:23am

    From 'Pipe Dream' to 'Mainstream' citizens fight back against corporate personhood

    Vermont joined Hawaii and New Mexico on Thursday to become the third state to have its legislature pass a resolution calling on the US Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would reverse the Supreme Court's 2010 'Citizens Unit

  • Shared Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont over GMO Labelling (News Headline)
    April 15, 2012 - 5:16am

  • Shared American Coal City Switching to Solar (Progressive Opinion)
    April 8, 2012 - 4:44am

    OK so the title of the peice should read "Chinese Coal City Switching to Solar" but it makes the point just how locked in is the US mindset to the carbon centric world of big coal and oil.

    To change the status quo would be a revolutionary act. That may be just too revolutionary.

    :-)

  • Shared How America's Security-Industrial Complex Went Insane (Progressive Opinion)
    April 7, 2012 - 6:39am

    I had thought about references to "Alice in wonderland" or perhaps "Nutjobs in Washington" to illustrate the top down lunacy of spending $5Bn a month on creating a colony of temples dedicated to the church of latter day military-intelligence-complex in a far off land.

    It's all so consistently irrational I think I will go with "Alice in wonderland"

  • Shared Report: Worldwide Opposition to Monsanto Growing (News Headline)
    April 5, 2012 - 10:02am

    A report released today shows that worldwide opposition to the biotechnology giant Monsanto and "the agro-industrial model that it represents" is growing.

  • Shared New Study Finds Skyrocketing Increase in Autism (News Headline)
    March 30, 2012 - 7:06am

    A just released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) had a skyrocketing increase of 78% compared to results from a decade ago. The CDC report shows that one in 88 children are now diagnosed with the disorder.

  • Shared WALL STREET CON: "Interest Rate Swaps" Are Bankrupting Local Governments (Progressive Opinion)
    March 25, 2012 - 12:54pm

    The “toxic culture of greed” on Wall Street was highlighted again last week, when Greg Smith went public with his resignation from Goldman Sachs in a scathing oped published in the New York Times. In other recent eyebrow-raisers, LIBOR rates—the benchmark interest rates involved in interest rate swaps—were shown to be manipulated by the banks that would have to pay up;