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Started July, 2009


 

 

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Capitalism (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary):

"An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market."

 

"Thomas Jefferson made one thing very clear in his notes and letters. The First Amendment clause that states "congress shall make no law with respect to the establishment of religion" was not so much to foster freedom of religion, though that is certainly a by product, but to make sure the government of the United States was, and always would have, freedom from religion."

- Mark Rubin, Journalist
Obama and Pelosi Violate First Amendment on Healthcare Abortion Amendment


“We must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without” 
 
   - Eisenhower

 

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else"

   - Winston Churchill

 

"We probably know more about tribes in the Amazon jungle than we do about the real nature of power in the United States. Neither political science, nor history, nor economics do very well on this."

   - Tom Ferguson

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

Lonnie J. Burris
Activist & Concerned Citizen
 

 

 

 

Related Issues:

Economy
Capitalism
Democracy

Psychopathy
Political Corruption
Corporate Corruption


Resources
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The Founding Fathers

Book: "A People's History of The United States" by Howard Zinn


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10 Ways Our Democracy Is Crumbling Around Us

Thomas Frank: How Americans Have Gotten Played -- Over and Over Again

The Horrors of an Ayn Rand World: Why We Must Fight for America's Soul

Is America on the Verge of a Theocracy? 4 Fundamental Ideologies Threatening U.S. Liberty

Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse

America: The Best Country in the World at Being Last -- How Can We Change That?

America's Billionaire-Run Democracy

Noam Chomsky: "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours" (Video)

Why 'Going Back to Normal' Is Not an Option for the American Economy -- and Where We are Headed Now

How the Sexual Revolution Changed America Forever

130 Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR's World

7 Signs the Corporatocracy Is Losing Its Legitamacy -- And 7 Tools to Help Shut It Down

Zin on Class in America (Videos)

Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Jingoist Politicians Think

America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Equality Matters

5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism of Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today

Dissent Is the Highest Form of Patriotism (Video)

The Decline of the Public Good

No Longer the Land of Opportunity

How the GOP Tries to Transform American Into a Selfish,  Souless Place

America Beyond Capitalism (Video)

If You Are Not Outraged, Then You Are Not Paying Attention: 5 Major Ways Corporate Elites Are Degrading America

Why Do We Feel We Can't Escape a System We Created?

Bankers Are the Dictators of the West

Moyers: Why 'We the People' Must Must Triumph Over Corporate Power

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over the GOP

An Idiot's Overview of Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing

When Governments Go Rogue

Comfortably Numb

The Rebirth of Social Darwinism

Democratic Governance Is Becoming Discredited (Video)

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Big Lies Launch Wars. "All Wars Are Based on Deception"

The Era of American Dominance Is Coming to a Close

The 1% Are the Very Best Destroyers of Wealth the World Has Ever Seen

10 Reasons America Will be Judged as the Most the Most Brutal Empire in History

The Moral Force of OWS is Tackling the Devastating War on the Poor

How Wall Street Occupied America

"We've Had Our Eyes Opened..."  Veterans Joining the 99% Movement

A New Declaration of Independence: 10 Ideas for Taking Back America from the 1%

Occupy Wall Street: No Demand Is Big Enough

Class War in America

Beyond Occupy Wall Street: 11 American Uprisings You've Never Heard of That Changed the World

A Manifesto for the Impending Second American Revolution

How Occupy Wall Street's Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative World View

We Are the 99% Who Want Peace, Harmony and Love on the Planet

Occupy Wall Street Is a Movement Too Big to Fail

What the New Deal Accomplished

US: Nader, Paul, Kucinich and Chomsky: "End the Left-Right Delusion. Corporatism Is the Real Eneby"

Conservatives Want America to be a 'Christian Nation' -- Here's What That Would Actually Look Like

America's Dirty Secret: How a Psycho-Sexual Cult Holds America Prisoner

5 Signs That America Is Moving Away form Religion

Psychologists on Coping with 9/11 Truth (Video)

The Meaning and Importance of Dissent

Can We Invent a World Based on Moral, Ethic and Empathy?

How America's Decline is Linked to Oil

Land of the Free, Home of the Turncoats

5 Reasons Capitalism Has Failed

Are We Still a Nation of Science?

The Current Political Landscape, Ideology vs. Reality

Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary Americans Absolutely Crazy

United States of Narcissism

How Fundamentalist Religion Is Destroying the World

 Making the World Safe for Democracy

The Painful Collapse of Empire: How the 'American Dream' and Exceptionalism Wreck Havoc on the World

How Twisted American Exceptionalism Leads to Criminal Behavior on a Global Scale

How Our Government Has Merged with Corporations

10 Great Things About America That Drive Conservatives and the Religious Right Insane

The Corporate State Wins Again

Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail? The Contours of Global Order

We're #1 : Ten Depressing Ways America Is Exceptional

How Socialists Built America

Imperial Decline: How Does It Feel to Be Inside a Dying Empire

Are We in the Process of Creating a New and Enduring American Underclass?

Why Washington Isn't Working for the American People

Wall Street Stands at the Pinnacle of 5,000 Years of Human Exploitation

Building the New Paradigm for Money Politics

Reclaiming Middle-Class America

Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?

Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States

How the Oligarchs Took Over America

Vision: Why the Fall of the American Empire Can Be a Good (and Peaceful) Thing

America: Why R Your Peeps So Dumb?

Religion As a Tool of Repression

The Empire Is Collapsing. and Americans Will Be the Last to Know

Dissolving the Union

Don't Be Complicit in Your Own Demise

4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire

The New American Oligarchy

Why Europeans Think We're Insane

War Is a Lie (Video)

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

Chalmers Johnson: Visionary Scholar on Empire and Decline of American Passes Away

America: The Silence of a Nation (Video)

The Madness of a Lost Society

Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans

Derrick Jensen: Consumer Culture Is Killing the Planet -- We Need to Build a Culture of Resistance

Is American Public About to Toss Israel?

Mourning in America: Death of the Middle Class

Hedges: We're Losing Our Intelligence -- How the Purge of True Dissent Has Starved Our Discourse

As the Country Falls Apart, It's Time for Our Revolution

The Empathetic Civilization

How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP

Clash War Spurs Violent Clashed in Europe -- Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?

Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?

The Perfect Storm that Threatens American Democracy

Hedges: Meet Progressive Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Why Germany Has It So Good -- and Why America is Going Down the Drain

Honoring Common Cause's John Gardner: "Now It's The Citizen's Turn"

How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master

The Secret Team and America's Censored History

Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the Native American Genocide

The Truth About Terorism - James Corbett (Video)

American Psychosis

American Fascism and Musical Chairs

Michael Moore: Woodward Book Reveals that Civilian Control of the Military is a Joke

Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Hearts and Minds

The Dismantling of Civilized Society

15 Shocking Facts Show That the Middle Class is Being Wiped Out

Why the Decline of America Can Be a Good Thing for America

Is America's Military Prepared for the Israeli Threat?

Bitter Tales from the Massive White Underclass in Joe Bageant's "Redneck" Memoir

This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Anymore

Two Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

America's Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country

Hightower: If You Don't Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye

Are We a Kleptocracy and What Does That Mean Anyway?

America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy

How Conservatives and the GOP Destroyed the "Traditional Family" They Claim to Treasure

America, Land of Paradox: The Country that Launched Corporate Globalization Should Be the First to End It

America Won the Cold War But Now is Turning into the USSR

Post-Anti-Americanism

The Ecstasy of Empire: How Close Is America's Demise?

Honk If You Like Caviar! Understanding America's Class System

It's the Beginning of the End for the American Empire

What a Collapsing Empire Looks Like

The New Aristocrats of Finance Pose a Serious Threat to Our Democratic Way of Life

How to Dismantle the America Empire Before This Country Goes Under

America Can't Afford Its Empire

America's Tragic Descent into Empire

America: Hooked on War and Getting Poorer

Treason In America Conference: Stating the Painfully Obvious to Save America

The State of the Nation: I Am Afraid

Democracy in America is a Useful Fiction

Zinn said "Largest Lie" was "War on Terrorism"

America: the Bullies Now Run the School

A Sign of Empire Pathology

US Is Increasing Its Hegemony As the "Global War  Gladiator" Under Obama

Mega Giant Corporations Are Very Bad for America

One Day We'll All Be Terrorists

America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation

Monopoly Capitalism Is the Root of All of America's Problems

6 Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End

10 Steps to Disastrous Financial Reform We Can't Allow the Government to Take

Is America Hooked on War?

'The End of America', Liberty: Use It or Lose It

The Many Ways Our Future is a Mess

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back?

 

 

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