How Banks Cheat Taxpayers

Another excellent article from Rolling Stone magazine. This time they explain in detail exactly how banks go about stealing from taxpayers.

How banks cheat taxpayers
(via Rolling Stone)

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker faces Total Recall

The campaign to recall union busing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has already collected over 500,000 signatures. Hopefully this will send a strong message to other politicians considering similar anti-union activity.

Walker recall 500k signatures
(via Think Progress)

Occupy Minnesota helps woman stay in her home

Occupy Minnesota is helping a foreclosure victim stay in her home while pressuring her bank to renegotiate her mortgage.

Occupy Minnesota helps woman stay in her home
(via The Raw Story)

American Exceptionalism in One Image

 

(via The Global Sociology Blog)

Obama plans reductions in US Military

Obama is planning to build a smaller, cheaper US Military in the wake of a decade of expensive war fighting. One of the goals listed by Pentagon planners is to aim for a size small enough that we would not be able to fight two extended ground conflicts at the same time. This is the second item of good news to come from Obama this week. Is he just trying to make up for the NDAA or are we seeing the leading edge of a hard core, tough as nails election year strategy?

Obama Unveiling Defense Strategy
(via Huffington Post)

End of the Democracy Pretense

Salon.com writer Glenn Greenwald explores the confusing discrepancy between American foreign policy that says it supports democracy for every nation in the world but then regularly takes actions to suppress democratic movements in other countries. I guess they get democracy as long as they do what we say with it?

End of the pro-democracy pretense