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Wage Collapse Caused Crisis
Go look at the chart in this post: Daily Kos: Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis
Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis
dailykos.com — Every day, there is another example of the conspiracy of silence that pervades the traditional media's description... of the current economic crisis. Sure, de-regulation, greed and pure stupidity has a lot to do with it. But, in truth, the underlying ... (more) Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis
A War Hamas Caused
washingtonpost.com — Nearly a year ago, I was in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where, on almost any... day, you could see the current war coming. "The next Middle East war may start over Sderot," I wrote back then. I came by my prescience the hard way -- in a bomb ... (more) A War Hamas Caused
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Class Warfare
Suburban Guerrilla — I’ve been writing about this for years, but since most of the top-level bloggers aren’t really familiar with Paycheck World, they didn’t. Oh well! I should think this class warfare was self-evident, but maybe not. So read this from Daily Kos (h/t Seeing the Forest): Basically, the basic bargain was roughly this–if you worked hard and became more productive, you would see that sweat of the brow in your wages. And from the post-war era until the 1970s, that deal basically held–as you can see from the lines that are ...

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