Hundreds Arrested as Growing Fast-Food Workers' Movement Strikes for Living Wage, Unionization (Democracy Now!)

Greater Boston Video: Market Basket Employees Protest CEO Firing

Arkansas: The Worst Place to Rent in America (Vice News)

Elizabeth Warren & Thomas Piketty Discuss Nature & Income Inequality. (The Huffington Post)

How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class (Moyers and Co.)

David Simon "The Audacity of Despair."

North Carolina: Battleground State (Moyers and Company)

State of Conflict: North Carolina (Moyers and Company)

"500 People Will Control American Democracy" If Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law (Democracy Now!)

Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland "The One Percent's Power and Privileges." (Moyers and Company)

Richard Wolff "A Cure for Capitalism."

Richard Wolff "Capitalism Run Wild" (Moyers and Company)

Elizabeth Warren "The Two Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke."

Elizabeth Warren "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class."

Robert Reich "How Unequal Can America Get?"

The One Percent

The American Fairytale: What is Hidden Beneath American Propaganda.

By Gene Ogorodov 

You notice how in winter floods the trees
which bend before the storm preserve their twigs.
The ones who stand against it are destroyed,
root and branch. In the same way, those sailors
who keep their sails stretched tight, never easing off,
make their ship capsize—and from that point on
sail with their rowing benches all submerged. 
 --Sophocles

There is iconic photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of people waiting in a bread line during the Great Depression under a billboard with the caption: “World's Highest Standard of Living. There is no way like the American Way!” Beneath giant smiles bedraggled and downtrodden victims plod toward a handout suited only to keep body and soul together. In each and every face the unspoken narrative is impossible to ignore – the spirit has died, hope has fled, those who had little have nothing and those who had nothing have even less.

Micah Chapter 3

By Gene Ogorodov

The Boston Pine Flag is not a religious blog. However, Upton Sinclair wasn't the only person in the world that thought that human exploitation is a poor way to run a society. In the last twenty years or more public policy has been bedecked with religious overtone, and we have decided to throw our hats into the religious ring, as well, under the hopes that the Bible takes a slightly different opinion on exploitation than the Fox News. 

Both the Religious Right and the Left have presented their pet issues as being anointed with the favor of the Hebrew and Christian God. If one were to only listen to media pundits and politicians, one might get the impression that Crony Capitalism, rather than Cleanliness, is next to Godliness.