Tag Archives: U.S. economy
Sharon Kyle> Prison-Based Gerrymandering
There are multiple factors that explain the explosion of the prison industrial complex but one factor that is rarely addressed is the political incentive to drive criminal justice policy toward mass incarceration for purposes of shifting disenfranchised urban populations to rural communities. By Sharon Kyle LAProgressive.com When the ACLU Pasadena Foothills Chapter joined forces with the NAACP, LA […]
Charles McDermid> US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses
US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses Unsparing analysis of $60bn spent ‘rebuilding’ Iraq lays bare the waste trail that may lead all the way to Afghanistan. At least $8bn in Iraq reconstruction funds is still unaccounted for and presumed ‘wasted’, a report says [Reuters] Charles McDermid Last Modified: 27 Mar 2013 AlJazeera.com The final breakdown of […]
Understanding the US/NATO Profit-Driven Military Agenda
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Chris Hedges: NDAA Lawsuit Update
Published on Feb 7, 2013 Follow Sierra @ http://www.twitter.com/sierra_adamson Sierra Adamson interviews Chris Hedges at the hearing for the second court of appeals in the Hedges v Obama NDAA lawsuit. Hedges explains what has happened in the lawsuit to date, the next steps and what he sees in America’s upcoming future. Learn more about the NDAA: http://www.stopndaa.org Support […]
Children are dying for oil profits
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Chris Hedges> War is Betrayal
SUNDAY, JUL 15, 2012 09:30 AM CDT War is betrayal The story of war is always a tale of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal and the poor BY CHRIS HEDGES, BOSTON REVIEW via Salon.com Spc Jason Palmer, a crew chief for a Black Hawk helicopter from A Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment prepares […]
What Our Tax Dollars Pay For> In Billions
At the NATO Summit in Chicago last month, Northrop Grumman company received a 1.7 billion dollar contract to build five (only five!) new drones. The CEO of Northrop Grumman is a member of that privileged group, the .01 percent (Brave New Foundation).
Video and transcript> Noam Chomsky on America’s Economic Suicide
Noam Chomsky on America’s Economic Suicide We’re a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic “suicide” Chomsky says. But there are glimmers of possibility. GRITtv / By Laura Flanders and Noam Chomsky May 4, 2012 | AlterNet Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the […]
A List of ALEC Corporations and those that dropped ALEC
A List of ALEC Corporations and those that dropped ALEC SourceWatch: Corporations that have dropped ties to ALEC Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Intuit, Reed-Elsevier, and others have dropped their membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Click here to tell other firms bankrolling ALEC to do the same. Learn more about corporations VOTING to rewrite […]
Video> May Day Protests Span the Globe With Calls for Economic Justice, International Solidarity
Published on May 2, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout […]
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