| 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy Steven Hill, Paradigm Publishers: There are two alternative futures: a dystopia of post-democracy, if the US continues along the current futile path; or a brighter future if fundamental reform is enacted, rescuing Americans from our nation's downward trajectory. Read the Excerpt Occupy Sandy Serves 10,000 Thanksgiving Meals Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times: Shelters bustled with Occupy Sandy volunteers serving holiday dinners as the arduous recovery continues. Read the Article "Small Business Saturday" Aims to Boost Shop-Local Movement Claudia Buck, McClatchy Newspapers: Squeezed between the Black Friday mall frenzy and Cyber Monday's online shopping kickoff, Small Business Saturday is the annual "shop local" day designed to pump up mom-and-pop businesses. Read the Article Lessons for Building a Co-Operative Movement Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing: Author John Curl argues that large-scale change is inevitable in the 21st century. The marginalized will form economic and political organizations based on mutual aid and cooperation, because they will have to, in order to survive. Read the Article The Fight for Corn Alfredo Acedo, The Americas Program: Corn's transformation from a communal resource to an economic good has been made possible by means of a global strategy with three blocks meant to shut off the route to rural self-sufficiency through local food production. Read the Article Party of Entitled Rich Threatens Economy Leo Gerard, Campaign for America's Future: Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way. President Obama is right to take that advice and refuse to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding to appease the entitled rich. Read the Article The Missing Living Wage Agenda Annette Bernhardt and Dorian Warren, Next New Deal: The media may have discovered inequality last year with the surprise emergence of Occupy Wall Street, but in truth, there is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market. Read the Article When Israel Says It Doesn't Target Journalists, It Is Lying Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada: Israel's attacks on journalists is a war crime. And this is a continuation of a tactic that Israel has used against journalists, with impunity, to slam the lid on exposing the truth about its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine. Read the Article and Watch the Video The Big Lie About the "Entitlement State" Alejandro Reuss, Dollars & Sense: Could the US government just raise more revenue, as a percentage of GDP, to pay for transfers that have grown as a share of GDP? Well, somehow a couple of dozen other countries seem to manage. So probably yes. Read the Article Hostess Failure Not Union's Fault Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Are the problems in our economy because working people get too much, or too little? And if Hostess can get away with driving down wages and cutting benefits, what will happen to your wages and benefits? Read the Article Tens of Thousands of Egyptians Protest Morsi's Power Grab Paul Jay, The Real News Network: On the heels of Israel's attack on Gaza, with support of Obama, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Morsi gives himself powers that rival Mubarak. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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