The right to vote is at the core of direct democratic representation and is the embodiment of America at its best. Voting is a chance for the people to be heard, for the powerful to be held to account, for the spirit of democracy to be perpetuated. Voting is as American as, well, apple pie. [...]
WITH NEW TERRORIST ACTS IN NORWAY, TIME FOR NEWS MEDIA TO TROT OUT THEIR BOGUS “TERRORISM EXPERTS.“ (AntiWar.com) In immediate aftermath of a massacre attributed to a right-wing anti-Muslim extremist, newspaper and television “pundits” came forth with claims that the attacks were the work of Muslim terrorists, a claim that was later retracted by many. [...]
THE “FUNDAMENTAL” LESSONS OF TRAGEDY IN NORWAY. (TruthDig) Chris Hedges writes a blistering critique of the new kind of “terrorism” that reared its toxic and murderous head in Norway last week, a terrorism not of “Islamists,” but made up of the zealots and extremists of the Christian right and secular fundamentalists. Armed with a chilling [...]
IS THE WEBSITE “PEOPLE OF WAL-MART” (POW) REALLY FUNNY? (Dissident Voice) Not so much, thinks William Hicks who sees the site as yet another manifestation of the attitude toward the unfortunate featured in “reality shows” like COPS. The site refers to those who shop at Wal-Mart as “loosers,” suggesting that their aberrant behavior, like that [...]
Unprecedented health among American businesses is not translating to benefits for ordinary Americans and the broader economy. Profits are up, and so is misery. Some of America’s largest corporations — like McDonald’s and GE — began releasing second-quarter earnings reports last week, and the results are astonishing. Corporate profits are near all-time highs, accounting for [...]
ARE U.S “ANTI-JIHAD” BLOGGERS PROVIDING “MATERIAL SUPPORT” TO TERRORISTS LIKE THE MAN SUSPECTED IN NORWEGIAN MASSACRES? (New York Times) This possibility in raised in noting the reliance of the Norwegian man accused of the attacks on the writings of influential American bloggers. While this may be a thin reed on the basis of which to [...]
BAIL-OUTS AND AUSTERITY: LIKE A HORSE AND CARRIAGE THEY GO TOGETHER IN YET ANOTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRY. (Daily Mirror) Greece joins Portugal, Spain and Ireland as countries for which the European Union has agreed to provide funds to deal with their financial insolvency in return for “austerity” measures that cut back on government funding of public [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that the political action committee of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire currently embroiled in an international phone hacking scandal, has stepped up its contributions to members of Congress and fundrasising arms of both major American political parties. According to filings with the government, News Corp. contributed over $50,000 [...]
“PRISON REFORM” IS IN THE AIR; AND WHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT? (Black Agenda Report) In Georgia as throughout the country, says Marietta GA resident Bruce Dixon, prison reform has come down pretty much to reducing costs to the state of its incarceration policies, as if they were no structural flaws in conditions within prisons and [...]
DESPERATELY SEARCHING FOR LOOPHOLES, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RECONSIDERS A PLAN FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ. (Huffington Post) President Obama and his top military and political experts are searching for ways to keep a significant number of US troops in Iraq well beyond the December 2011 withdrawal date agreed to by the US and Iraqi governments in [...]
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