Oprah Winfrey &

The Dumbing Down of America

Obama has given Karzai a six-month deadline, after which the US will withdraw from Afghanistan. Obama said they don't want soldiers' lives wasted for nothing. They want changes in Cabinet, changes in his personal staff and controlling corruption.

According to Retirement USA, set up by various advocacy groups, for workers ages 55-64, the average 401(k) account—on which millions now solely rely for their retirement—was $40,000. One-third of US households have no retirement savings at all.

Bankers have invoked Christianity to defend a banking system that has created wealth and inequality in capitalist societies. And this justification for greed: “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interes.,”