US Uncut
Hans at the Brink - 27.02.2011 21:53
"Enjoying record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts as the economy slowly recovers from a financial crisis, nearly two-thirds of US corporations don't pay any income taxes, instead opting to abuse tax loopholes and offshore tax havens. According to this study from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, 83 of the top 100 publicly traded corporations that operate in the US exploit corporate tax havens".  http://www.usuncut.org/about
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Tuesday 22 February 2011 - Allison Kilkenny, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
"US Uncut" Calls Out Corporate Tax Deadbeats
A few weeks before he died, Howard Zinn had lunch at the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. Their topic of conversation was, of course, social justice.
"If there is going to be change, real change," Zinn told Herbert, "it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens."
A year later, the streets of London erupted with citizens who were engaging in Zinn's favorite pastime: active democracy. Students gathered in protest at Parliament Square, but there were also other protests in Oxford, Scotland, Glasgow, Cambridge, Birmingham and Leeds. Across the region, students displayed their frustration with a government that sought to triple tuition fees, effectively pricing young men and women out of their educations.
The UK government's message was clear: Sorry, there's not enough money for the little people. Yet, it soon became clear there should have been enough funds to cover the educations of Britain's youth, and to provide housing for every poor man, woman and child in the country. However, there were some entities - corporations - that were committing the equivalent of economic treason, and that is why the UK is currently experiencing a shortfall in tax revenue.
UK Uncut, a grassroots movement compromised of average citizens, organized in an effort to figure out where the money had gone. (..)
http://www.truth-out.org/us-uncut-calls-out-corporate-tax-deadbeats67941
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Danny Schechter
February 21, 2011
Madoff Fingers Wall Street, Sort of
Editor’s Note: America’s right-tilted news media continues to focus the U.S. public on the supposed need to shrink government and slash programs that help average folks, while excluding talk of prosecuting Wall Street thieves or even taxing more of their big bonuses. (..)
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/022111a.html
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Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?"
"Nobody goes to jail,” writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth." Taibbi explains how the American people have been defrauded by Wall Street investors and how the financial crisis is connected to the situations in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio.
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2011/feb/video/dnB20110222a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:39:12
http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/dn2011-0222-1.mp3
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/22/matt_taibbi_why_isnt_wall_street
Guest:
Matt Taibbi, political reporter for Rolling Stone magazine.
http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/matt_taibbi
His new article for Rolling Stone magazine is titled, 'Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?’
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
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