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Meet the Badass Peshmerga Women

Fierce Planet Posted on August 10, 2017 by jnfrAugust 10, 2017

From Samantha Bee at Full Frontal: I have enormous admiration for these fighters and their culture.

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Posted in Feminism, Middle East, Resistance | Tagged kurds, philosophy, politics, women

Je suis Charlie

Fierce Planet Posted on January 8, 2015 by jnfrJanuary 8, 2015

via banksy ETA: Original image was created by Lucille Clerc.

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Posted in Civil Rights, Media, Terrorism | Tagged culture, philosophy, violence

The Republican Party’s governing philosophy

Fierce Planet Posted on October 26, 2010 by jnfrOctober 26, 2010

Seriously, the Republicans in Congress don’t have one. What drives them is a pure lust for power, and money for their corporate backers. They have no actual ideas about how to grow the economy, how to raise wages, how to improve education, or about what to do for any other problem facing the country. They’ve got nothing. “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” — Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

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Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Republicans | Tagged elections, philosophy, republicans

Watch them burn

Fierce Planet Posted on October 4, 2010 by jnfrOctober 4, 2010

The most shocking story of the day is up at Think Progress: Tennessee County’s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down . Seriously, Obion County has a subscription-based fire department that only covers those who subscribe, rather than the normal sort that is paid out of taxes and covers everyone. So firefighters came to the fire and watched as that family’s home burned to the ground. They hadn’t been paid, so they refused to help. It’s the perfect example of life under a libertarian, big business conservative vision of life, where we have no mutual responsibilities to our community … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Economy, Philosophy, Taxes | Tagged philosophy, policy, republicans, taxes

Unions and the Tea Party are united on trade

Fierce Planet Posted on September 30, 2010 by jnfrSeptember 30, 2010

When it comes to free trade treaties, workers in this country are very skeptical. In fact a new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 65% of union members and 61% of Tea Party sympathizers say that free trade has hurt the U.S. I think there are some sectors in the U.S. that have benefited from free trade treaties. Certainly stockholders and CEOs have become fabulously wealthy as they chased cheap labor and poor environmental standards around the globe. But the race to the bottom has hurt U.S. workers, who are now consistently being told that they need to accept the “new reality” … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, International, Labor | Tagged economy, jobs, philosophy, trade

Stephen Colbert speaks truth to power

Fierce Planet Posted on September 28, 2010 by jnfrSeptember 28, 2010

I am not a religious person, but I know Colbert is, so I suspect that his study of gospel informed this profound moment in his Congressional testimony on migrant workers last week. Despite our different frames, I found this bit of his statement, when he moved out of character, emotionally deep and true.

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Posted in Civil Rights, Economy, Farms and Food, Labor | Tagged food, immigration, labor, philosophy

Restating the obvious

Fierce Planet Posted on September 27, 2010 by jnfrSeptember 27, 2010

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. From Anatole France

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Posted in Equality | Tagged equality, philosophy

More on income inequality

Fierce Planet Posted on September 15, 2010 by jnfrSeptember 28, 2010

Annie Lowrey at the Washington Independent points us to a report on income inequality from the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee. She highlights several graphs and conclusions that show the remarkable way that the wealthy have become even more so over the past decade, while middle class and working incomes have stagnated or declined. The charts are interesting in part because they break out income and tax rates according to the various modern-day Presidential administrations. Here is one example: Even under Clinton you can see that the wealthy increased their share of total income. And in fact, Lowrey notes that according … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Labor, Politics | Tagged economy, equality, labor, philosophy, politics
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