Alexander Reed Kelly — ‘We Are Living in the World Occupy Made’

Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, the national, independent, inequality-focused political coalition sponsored by labor unions that helped elect Bill de Blasio to the position of mayor of New York City, tells“Democracy Now!” on Friday about the role Occupy Wall Street played in the latest election.

“We are living in the world Occupy made,” Cantor says. “We are the beneficiaries of what they did in terms of making this [about] inequality, which is from our point of view the core issue of our time.”

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‘We Are Living in the World Occupy Made’
Alexander Reed Kelly

Al Jazeera — Pope sends message of hope to Brazil's poor

Pope Francis has issued the first social manifesto of his young pontificate, telling slum dwellers in Brazil that the world's rich must do much more to wipe out vast inequalities between the haves and the have-nots.

History's first Latin American pope, in a speech on Thursday to residents of Manguinhos, blasted the "culture of selfishness and individualism" that persists in the world and encouraged efforts in Brazil to end hunger and poverty.

"No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world," he said.

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Pope sends message of hope to Brazil's poor

Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi: Everyone Pays If the Banksters Don't Go to Jail (video)

Taibbi tells Bill that fearing another economic calamity is no excuse for turning a blind eye to shockingly unethical decisions and management.
“The rule of law isn’t really the rule of law if it doesn’t apply equally to everybody. If you’re going to put somebody in jail for having a joint in his pocket, you can’t let higher ranking HSBC officials off for laundering $800 million for the worst drug dealers in the entire world,” Taibbi tells Bill. “Eventually it eats away at the very fabric of society.”

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Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi: Everyone Pays If the Banksters Don't Go to Jail

Michel Bauwens —The Historical Origins of Inequality

Below, Peter Turchin discusses the book by Robert Bellah. Religion in Human Evolution which in turn refers to Boehm’s Hierarchy of the Forest, a classic on hunter-gathering egalitarianism.

This is a must-read review from Peter Turchin’s article, Religion and Empire in the Axial Age. (an Invited Article for Religion, Brain & Behavior.)

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The Historical Origins of Inequality
Michel Bauwens

The world we live in is seriously flawed

Just saw this on the Internet.