Class Warfare

Election 2012, Iranian Style

Jess Coleman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Class Warfare, Tax Rates, Income Inequality, Unequal Representation, Election 2012, Wealth Gap, Voter Turnout, Buffett Rule, Teen News
Jess Coleman

Historically, only about half the nation votes for the president every four years. That reality makes equal representation a far-fetched goal: How can everyone be represented when only half of us vote?

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America: Home of the Bewildered Serf and Land of the Feudal Lords.

Dave Pederson | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Adam Davidson, Debt, JP Morgan, Ed Conard, Neo-Feudalism, Class Warfare, Ronald Reagan, Bain Capital, Ows, Mitt Romney, Trickle-Down Economics, Arthur Laffer, Economic Inequality, Reaganomics, Occupy Movement, Nypd, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, Politics News
Dave Pederson

Two news items popped this week that highlight the ever-growing Neo-Feudalism that has become our new economy. First, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) filed ...

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May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Workers, May Day, May 1, Class Warfare, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Corporations, American Federation of Labor, Eight-Hour Day, Labor Unions, Unions, Occupy Movement, May Day Protests, Working Class, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, May Day History, Culture News
Lawrence Wittner

Many people might be surprised to learn that the May Day celebrations that occurred around the world in 2012 were born more than a century ago out of a struggle by American workers for the eight-hour day.

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A Dickens of a Dichotomy

Arnie Reisman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Internet, Politics, Polarization, Republican Party, Bush Tax Cuts, Class Warfare, Trickle Down Economic, Politics News
Arnie Reisman

The national motto of France, which had its roots in the French Revolution, is "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." And how is that working for us here in the U.S.? Our liberties are being threatened by rightwing power grabs and over-reactions to threats of terrorism.

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Occupying With Noam Chomsky

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Global Occupy, Occupy, Noam Chomsky Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Class Warfare, May Day, Income Inequality, Books News
Greg Ruggiero

"Occupy," says Noam Chomsky in his new book, "is the first major public response to thirty years of class war." One of the movement's greatest successes has been simply to put the inequalities of everyday life on the national agenda, influencing reporting, public perception and language itself.

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Why So Snarky to Those Trying to Make a Difference?

Toni Nagy | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Hbo, Girls, Philanthropy, Bully, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Lee Hirsch, Green Business, Green Living, Media, Business, South Park, Lena Dunham, Hollywood, Class Warfare, Culture News
Toni Nagy

If you are an unapologetic capitalist you will suffer less public scrutiny than if you are someone who is trying to do something meaningful with your life. The focus morphs from the meaning of the message to suspicions of opportunistic motives.

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Ann Or Hilary: Either Way, Motherhood Is a Dismal Financial Decision for American Women

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, Working Mothers, Pay Equity, Reproductive Freedom, The Price of Motherhood, Blunt Amendment, Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, Working Women, Gender Gap, Class Warfare, Reproductive Justice, Gender Pay Inequality, Women in the Workforce, Gender Inequality, Gender Pay Gap, Fair Pay Act, Stay at Home Mom, Business News
Soraya Chemaly

What I am not hearing anyone say loudly and clearly in this Rosen/Romney snafu is that women's ability -- not desire or choice -- to take part in the economy is based on her freedom to make reproductive decisions.

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Obama vs. Romney: Class Warfare

Bob Burnett | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: The One Percent, Class Warfare, Mitt Romney 2012, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Reaganomics, Obama Romney 2012, Obama Romney, Mitt Romney Economy, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Understanding Romney's perspective helps crack his campaign code. When Romney says Obama made the economic crisis worse, he means Obama did not follow Republican advice and do nothing; Obama did not stand by and let the economy crater.

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Obama's Inept, Elitist Political Warfare

Robert Lenzner | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Taxes, Trojan Horse, Warren Buffett, Class Warfare, Social Darwinism, President Obama, Barack Obama, Buffett Tax, Politics News
Robert Lenzner

Mr. President, you lost me and most of America with all your talk about Trojan Horses and Social Darwinism, as I thought I was back in a course on classics or American intellectual history at Harvard in the 1950s.

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Disrupting the Discourse and Discussing the Undiscussable

Laurel Schwartz | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Racism, Harvard University, Harvard, Education Reform, Classism, Class Warfare, Trayvon Martin, Race Relations, Judaism, Social Inequality, College News
Laurel Schwartz

If I am unsure of how to broach issues of race and class with my peers in the safety of my grad school classrooms, how will I be able to lead these conversations in a school?

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OWS Triumphant: Obama, Romney and the Politics of Inequality

Richard Brodsky | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Republican Party, Barack Obama, 2012 Campaign, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, President Obama, Zuccotti Park, Classism, Class Warfare, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News
Richard Brodsky

What Obama's doing is forcing a debate about the most fundamental question before the nation: Do we govern in the interest of the 1 percent or do we govern in the interest of the 99 percent?

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How the $640,000,000 Might Have Ruined Your Life

William Rose | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Greed, Lottery, Homelessness, Values, Money, Mega Millions Jackpot, Happiness, George Mason University, Mega Millions, Mega Millions Winner, Classism, Class Warfare, College News
William Rose

That's just the thing about winning the lottery: winning it makes you rich, not wealthy. There is no more honor in luck than there is happiness in money.

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Think Again: Money Talks, Media Balks

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Wealth Inequality, Uscs, One Percent, Media Criticism, Wealth Disparity, Income Disparity, Classism, Media Critique, Class Warfare, Media Bias, Income Inequality, Media News
Eric Alterman

Instead of seeking remedies to this ongoing problem, the putative guardians of our democratic principles, rights and responsibilities -- the United States Supreme Court -- has chosen to vastly exacerbate the situation.

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Paul Ryan's Class Warfare

Joe Hansen | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Labor, Ufcw, Class Warfare, Budget, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Joe Hansen

In the coming days, you will hear the Ryan plan called "bipartisan." Supporters will try to sell it as a plan to "fix Medicare." But all the poll-tested words in the world will not change the fact that this budget is no different than the one the American people soundly rejected last year.

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How the Gender Wars Became a Class War

Joan Williams | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Class Warfare, Education Gap, Economy, Middle Class, The Atlantic, Wage Gap, The End of Men, Gender Wars, Gender Wage Gap, Media News
Joan Williams

When The Atlantic's article "The End of Men" came out, I was irritated. They're at it again in a piece that crows about "The Spectacular Triumph of Working Women Around the Globe" -- a title that becomes mystifying as soon as you read the article.

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Equal or Fair?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Class Warfare, Income Inequality, Occupy Movement, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Ask any six-year-old what is fair, and they will have rather clear answers. As Occupy Wall Street is looking for new directions, promoting fairness should top the list.

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Romney, Santorum and GOP Snobs: The Rise of America's Plutocratic 1%

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Florida, Class Warfare, Latinos, President Barack Obama, Romney, Republican Primary, Occupy Movement, Arizona, Santorum, Minimum Wage, Bain Capital, President Obama, Newt Gingrich, Income Inequality, Gop Primary 2012, Class War, Elections 2012, 2012 Republican Primary, Gop Primary, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election, Rick Santorum, Politics News
Edward Wyckoff Williams

The nation has entered a twilight zone where 'elite' and 'elitism' only have subjective meaning. It's an alternate universe in which Mitt Romney can admit he's "not concerned about the very poor" and his wife can claim she doesn't consider herself "wealthy." All this during a time of record unemployment.

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"Occupy Rousseau" and Challenge Inequality in America

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Switzerland, Occupy Wall Street, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Democracy, Capitalism, Inequality, Eliot Spitzer, Thomas Kean, Global Occupy, Class War, Class Warfare, Occupy Movement, Income Inequality, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

Jean-Jacques Rousseau proclaimed in his Social Contract that men, though born free, were everywhere in chains. Astonishingly, three centuries later, inequality continues to dog capitalism and taint democracy's legitimacy -- worse now even than back then.

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Class War in the USA

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Republican Primary, Santorum, Class Warfare, Elections 2012, Republican Party, Romney, 2012 Election, Class War, World News
Rebecca Tinsley

When Americans suggest the wealthiest members of society might pay a little more tax, they are not unleashing Mao's Red Guards, or Rwanda's Interahamwe. They are debating the relative costs we should all bear for being privileged enough to live in a healthy, safe democracy.

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Clash Warfare

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Jacob Hacker, Lower Class, Charles Murray, Class Warfare, Upper Class, Andrew Kohut, American Dream, Pew Research Center, Middle Class, Politics News
Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam

"Clash warfare" may appeal to a minority, but it does nothing to respond to the economic and social concerns of the majority of Americans. For them, class warfare is not the issue -- fairness and opportunity are.

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Should We Cut Rich People's Taxes Completely?

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Colbert Class Warfare, Colbert Cut Rich Peoples Taxes Completely, The Colbert Report, Video, Class Warfare, Charlie Gasparino, Trickle Down, Political Humor, Funny Videos, Media Humor, Colbert Nation, Tax the Rich, Tax Reform, Comedy News

On Wednesday night's show, Stephen Colbert made the argument that everyone else is afraid to make: cut rich people's taxes all together. During his...

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C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, C. Wright Mills, Class Warfare, The Power Elite, Middle Class, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Few Occupy Wall Street activists have probably heard of Mills. But Mills' breakthrough ideas -- especially his notion of the "power elite" -- resonate today with the growing recognition that too much wealth and power in the hands of the superrich undermines democracy.

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Class Warfare and Private Equity

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Class Warfare, Bain Capital, Middle Class, Business News
Andrew Reinbach

Looking after the people in their care, the country's pension funds, and the government itself, are waging war on the middle class; cutting their wages and retirements and making rich people richer.

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Class Warfare: Which Side Are You on?

Bob Burnett | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Class Warfare, We Are the 99 Percent, Which Side Are You On, Mitt Romney, Top 1 Percent, Ani DiFranco, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bob Burnett

The 2012 election will be a referendum on the economy and Obama's leadership. But at another, deeper level, the election will be about class warfare.

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America's Got 99 Problems and Needs Someone from the 1 (%)

Corey Stern | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney Wealth, 2012: Our Election, Wealth Gap, Occupy Wall Street, Class Warfare, Michael Bloomberg, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney for President, Obama Class Warfare, Newt-Gingrich-Ethics-Violation, High School News
Corey Stern

Wouldn't we want someone like Romney, with experience as a CEO and a self-acquired net worth of over $200 million to run our nation? Doesn't his past show that he's capable of leading us in the right direction?

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