The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber is an engaging riff on the theme of bureaucracy and the BS people think about it.

“De-regulation,” of finances, Graeber points out, creates more rules, paperwork, and bureaucrats, apparently because what happens is not the equivalent of firing a bunch of factory safety inspectors, but rather the employment of enough bureaucrats to redirect control of wealth from mid-sized companies to giant conglomerates. Yet, just as people imagine criminals to read more

Click Here to Send Jamie Dimon a Message From Robin Hood

On Thursday, OccupyWashingtonDC.org teamed up with the Backbone Campaign, National People’s Action, and the New Economy Working Group in a march from Freedom Plaza to the Federal Housing Finance Administration (FHFA).

The demand they brought, along with giant props including a foreclosed house under water, was for a correction.  The 1%, they said, inflated house values and made off with ill-gotten gains, but those left with underwater mortgages when the house values were brought back read more

Most people are just living along
Humming a song
Trying to get by
A gleam or a tear in their eye
But they’re not helping push the world back the other way
Yet there will come a day
And maybe it’s this one
When every shoulder joins in
And then the world begins again
But this time — damn it — we’re in charge of the production
And we’re writing the script
And if you’ve slipped we’ll help read more

By David Swanson

Obama is seeking to cut off poor people’s heat in the winter and AC in the summer, in a move that Bush attempted and saw blocked by ACORN.

This brings a whole new meaning to Obama’s “ACORN who? Never met them in my life!” routine when Fox News destroyed the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now with a big assist from Congress.

Let’s take a little trip back in time, shall we? All the way baaaaaaaaack to 2003:

While 50 ACORN members read more

Robert Scheer’s new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street,” is not yet another account of how we got robbed or “why the economy imploded for dummies.” If you’re like me, you just didn’t need another lesson in how swapped collateralized debt obligation derivative tranches didn’t really make the pie higher. Scheer’s book is something else: a straightforward read more