FOCUS | The Militant American Empire

Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

TomDispatch: Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, Congress Tweeted While America Burned

Truthdig – Rise Up or Die – Chris Hedges

Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life — and the World Along with It

FOCUS | Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred

Paul Krugman’s right: Austerity kills – Salon.com

The Anti-Globalization Movement and the World Social Forum. Is “Another World” Possible? | Global Research

‘Rumsfeld’s Rules’ Review: Good Rules, Shame He Didn’t Follow Them The Daily Beast

What’s at Stake When the Government Seizes Phone Records

Jane Mayer: A Word from Our Sponsor – Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch

Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The movie had been produced independently, in part with support from the Gates Foundation. “Park Avenue” is a pointed exploration of the growing economic inequality in America and a meditation on the often self-justifying mind-set of “the one per cent.” As a narrative device, Gibney focusses on one of the most expensive apartment buildings in Manhattan—740 Park Avenue—portraying it as an emblem of concentrated wealth and contrasting the lives of its inhabitants with those of poor people living at the other end of Park Avenue, in the Bronx. Among the wealthiest residents of 740 Park is David Koch

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country — Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

Saving Our Economy With Public Banking

FOCUS | The IRS and the Real Scandal | Robert Reich

We’re living in an Ayn Rand economy – Salon.com

Afghan legislators block law protecting women – World – CBC News

Why America May Be the Last Empire

When Governments Go Bad – NYTimes.com – David Brooks

From Boston to Pakistan, Pentagon Claims Entire World Is a Battlefield

Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror

Adbusters: Farewell and Good Luck, Zuck! Will his latest moves mark the beginning of the end of Facebook?

Zuckerberg, who turns 29 today [5/14], is using his Facebook fortune to create and promote advertisements for fracking companies, the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, and for oil companies that want to drill in such delicate places as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! And of course, his success as an entrepreneur has always been contentious, since we know that he's stepped over a lot of people, including his friends, stealing ideas and playing hardball, to get where he is today – one of the world's youngest billionaires .. Zuckerberg is moving boldly into the political arena. The new lobbying group that he co-founded with other technology executives in the Silicon Valley is called FWD.US. "Their first moves," writes Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet, mark a resurrection of "old-school libertarian values: [] trashing health care reform and backing the Keystone XL pipeline."

Four Easy Fixes for Corporate Taxation

Senator Warren Wants Banks to Admit Guilt

Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street