Portside

More strength left of the aisle could make a difference, and Europe’s future direction is indeed a weightier matter than talk show rudeness - and of a certainty it is not just baloney!

Obama's Wage Promise Answers Calls of Growing Movement

Davos, Minimum Wage, Pete Seeger, Goldman Sachs, Chris Christie and the Superbowl

The fact that the Canadian government and the oil industry were reportedly briefed on today’s news before Congress was given the courtesy of a heads-up speaks volumes. It encourages the already widely held impression that the fix was in from the beginning. If the administration expects to avoid the lasting stink of having ignored every red flag in the book, it needs to explain itself.

Fears over economic downturn suggest the need for a new global system

Demands include popular participation in the peace process, an end to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that threaten the livelihoods of family farmers and workers, and government fulfillment of unkept promises for infrastructure development and Peasant Reserve Zones in rural areas.

...the action, and our opportunity to keep marching, continues.

"...this is a march on corporate America. We’re all being Doctor King right now.”