Actually, "the Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do

Actually, "the Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do
by: Dave Johnson

Lots of regular people having money to spend is what creates jobs and businesses. That is the basic idea of demand-side economics and it works. In a consumer-driven economy designed to serve people, regular people with money in their pockets is what keeps everything going. And the equal opportunity of democracy with its reinvestment in infrastructure and education and the other fruits of democracy is fundamental to keeping a demand-side economy functioning.

http://www.truthout.org/actually-rich-dont-create-jobs-we-do/130538074

Israeli Myths & Propaganda. Ilan Pappe

Oil Wealth, U.S. Backing Enables Saudi Arabia to Crush Dissent in Bahrain and at Home

Toby Craig Jones on Democracy Now!
Oil Wealth, U.S. Backing Enables Saudi Arabia to Crush Dissent in Bahrain and at Home

The Internet as Playground and Factory: Jonathan Beller

http://vimeo.com/7449081

See also:

Jonathan Beller, Digital Ideology Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/JonathanBeller/jonathan-beller-digital-ideology-presentation

Marjorie Cohn: Assassinating Bin Laden‏

Osama bin Laden and the "suspected militants" targeted in drone attacks should have been arrested and tried in U.S. courts or an international tribunal. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner. These assassinations are not only illegal; they create a dangerous precedent, which could be used to justify the targeted killings of U.S. leaders.Osama bin Laden and the "suspected militants" targeted in drone attacks should have been arrested and tried in U.S. courts or an international tribunal. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner. These assassinations are not only illegal; they create a dangerous precedent, which could be used to justify the targeted killings of U.S. leaders.

http://www.counterpunch.com/cohn05102011.html

William J. Astore: The Crash and Burn of Old Regimes‏

"In this sense, our wars are eerily like those pursued by European monarchs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: conflicts carried out by professional militaries and bands of mercenaries, largely at the whim of what we might now call a unitary executive, funded by deficit spending, for the purposes of protecting or extending the interests of a ruling elite."

http://www.counterpunch.com/astore05122011.html

Walden Bello: Bin Laden's Game‏

"But one cannot escape the fact that he succeeded in unleashing a chain of events that led to his nemesis, the United States, becoming a diminished power compared to what it was in the halcyon days of unilateralism at the end of the last century. In the duel between Washington and Osama, the latter was, at the time of his death, far ahead on points."

http://www.counterpunch.com/bello05122011.html