Two from Truthout:

Sunday 05 June 2011

Dr. Cornel West: Greetings From a 21st-Century Prophet
Max Eternity, Truthout: "Even after the ... hip, hip, hurrah of President Obama's ordered assassination of Osama bin Laden, a cornucopia of catastrophic socioeconomic horrors still face this nation... endless war, long-term unemployment, swelling prison populations and multiple years of record-breaking home foreclosures... But they won't be here to stay if a certain brilliant, black man of prophetic word and deed can help it - namely, Dr. Cornel West. West equates America's banking elite with gangsters and deplores President Obama's choice to surround himself with their minions... This well-heeled phalanx of criminals is, in West's view, to blame for many, if not most, of America's current ills."
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Robert Reich | Why Washington Isn't Doing Squat About Jobs and Wages
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why? Republicans don’t want to do anything about jobs and wages... Democrats, meanwhile, don’t want to admit the recovery has stalled.... But there’s a third reason for Washington’s inaction. It’s not being talked about - which is itself evidence of the problem. The unemployed are politically invisible. They don’t make major campaign donations. They don’t lobby Congress. There’s no National Association of Unemployed People."
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