Why Ayn Rand
Is Still Relevant (and Dangerous)
Darryl Cunningham, New Statesman
Cunningham writes: "I was drawn to Ayn Rand because her politics are almost exactly the opposite of my own. I tend to take the side of the underdog and I have a keen sense of injustice. She cared little for those crushed under the wheels of capitalism and considered economic failure to be your own fault if it happened to you."
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Darryl Cunningham, New Statesman
Cunningham writes: "I was drawn to Ayn Rand because her politics are almost exactly the opposite of my own. I tend to take the side of the underdog and I have a keen sense of injustice. She cared little for those crushed under the wheels of capitalism and considered economic failure to be your own fault if it happened to you."
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Ralph Nader |
Be a Passionate Voter for Justice
Ralph Nader, Reader Supported News
Nader writes: "Millions of Americans, many of whom are avid sports fans, are suffering due to low wages, income inequality, and a gridlocked Congress that is obsessed with campaign fundraising and incapable of addressing many of country's most pressing needs, from public investments to fair play for working families."
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Ralph Nader, Reader Supported News
Nader writes: "Millions of Americans, many of whom are avid sports fans, are suffering due to low wages, income inequality, and a gridlocked Congress that is obsessed with campaign fundraising and incapable of addressing many of country's most pressing needs, from public investments to fair play for working families."
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Harvey
Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis | Twelve Ways Jim Crow Is Winning in
2014
Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis, Freepress.org
Excerpt: "Jim Crow is already the big winner in this year's election. The corporate elite needs him to gouge the planet, wage perpetual imperial war and rule the rest of us. So the voting rights of millions of student, elderly, black, Hispanic and other citizens are being lynched."
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Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis, Freepress.org
Excerpt: "Jim Crow is already the big winner in this year's election. The corporate elite needs him to gouge the planet, wage perpetual imperial war and rule the rest of us. So the voting rights of millions of student, elderly, black, Hispanic and other citizens are being lynched."
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Jonathan Chait
| There's Only One Thing at Stake in the Senate Race: The Supreme
Court
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Chait writes: "The contest to control the Senate is about one thing: whether Obama can confirm judges and staff his administration. This can all be seen through the power of political science."
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Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Chait writes: "The contest to control the Senate is about one thing: whether Obama can confirm judges and staff his administration. This can all be seen through the power of political science."
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Ann Jones |
The Missing Women of Afghanistan
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Jones writes: "This disconnect between Washington's much-advertised support for women's rights and its actual disdain for women was not lost upon canny Afghans."
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Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Jones writes: "This disconnect between Washington's much-advertised support for women's rights and its actual disdain for women was not lost upon canny Afghans."
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Malala Donates
$50,000 to Rebuild Schools in Gaza
Chris Pleasance, Daily Mail
Pleasance writes: "Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala, 17, is using cash she was given for winning the World Children's Prize to rebuild U.N. schools destroyed by fighting between Israel and Palestine."
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Chris Pleasance, Daily Mail
Pleasance writes: "Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala, 17, is using cash she was given for winning the World Children's Prize to rebuild U.N. schools destroyed by fighting between Israel and Palestine."
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Leading Energy
Lobbyist: 'Win Ugly or Lose Pretty'
Eric Lipton, The New York Times
Lipton writes: "If the oil and gas industry wants to prevent its opponents from slowing its efforts to drill in more places, it must be prepared to employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities, a veteran Washington political consultant told a room full of industry executives in a speech that was secretly recorded."
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Eric Lipton, The New York Times
Lipton writes: "If the oil and gas industry wants to prevent its opponents from slowing its efforts to drill in more places, it must be prepared to employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities, a veteran Washington political consultant told a room full of industry executives in a speech that was secretly recorded."
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