We reported in yesterday’s headlines on Verizon’s plans to levy a brand new $2 fee on customers that pay their bill with a credit card online or over the phone. This charge would have affected nearly all of the customers served by America’s largest wireless company. Once the news went public, Verizon customers and consumer [...]
OCCUPY VERIZON: AMERICA’S LARGEST CELLPHONE COMPANY WILL START CHARGING CUSTOMERS TO PAY THEIR BILLS. (CNET) In the latest example of mind-numbing detachment from America’s corporate sector, Verizon announced on Thursday that it will immediately begin charging a $2 fee for customers that pay their bill online or over the phone with a credit or debit [...]
ARE THESE FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE PERSIMMONS IRRADIATED FROM THE NUCLEAR PLANT LEAK? BETTER CHECK WITH THE CITIZENS RADIOACTIVITY MEASURING STATION. (Counterpunch) With the Japanese government giving residents of the area little reliable information about nuclear contamination that shifts with the winds, they are resorting to their own devices to try to determine the degree of their [...]
Is the nation’s two-party political duopoly on the verge of extinction? Not quite. But as frustration with Washington builds across the country, records show that Americans are abandoning the two major political parties as they never have before. They are still considered the only two viable national party structures in the United States and dominate the media coverage and [...]
“GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO” THROWS A SHAFT OF LIGHT ON THE “BANALITY OF EVIL” IN SWEDEN. (Counterpunch) The recently-released movie features a graphic depiction of torture and rape by police agents in the “liberal” country. A U.S. investigative journalist living in Sweden, Ritt Goldstein, uses the movie’s theme to comment on what seems to [...]
FIVE WORST STORIES OF 2011: REMEMBERING WHAT YOU HOPED TO FORGET ` MAY 1: DING, DONG, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD. Happy celebrations, from a triumphant “mission accomplished” White House appearance of President Obama to spontaneous dancing in the street, greet the news that Osama bin Laden, generally labeled as the force behind the 9/11/01 [...]
AS WORLD PRAYS FOR PEACE ON EARTH, PENTAGON PREPARES FOR FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE OF THAT EARTH (Global Research) Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham, for Global Research, review the history across presidential administrations from Truman to Obama, and embracing the leadership of both major U.S. parties of an agenda of promoting what George H.W. Bush called [...]
DOES FORMER OBAMA “CAR CZAR” STEVE RATTNER HAVE ANY REGRETS ABOUT THE DEAL BY WHICH GENERAL MOTORS GAVE BIG HITS TO WAGES AND BENEFITS FOR AUTO WORKERS? (World Socialist) Yes indeed, says Jerry White. Rattner, a luxuriously wealthy man who was cashiered for corrupt actions, regrets that these hits were not even harder, in order [...]
SCHOOL’S OUT—-DISCUSSION OF SCHOOLS IS IN SELF-IMMOLATION OF A FRENCH SCHOOL TEACHER FOCUSES ATTENTION ON WOEFUL CONDITION OF TEACHING PROFESSION IN FRANCE. Those conditions in France are much as they are in the U.S.A. A cash-strapped government cuts every corner in support of schools and teachers, with weak salaries, over-crowded classes, disruptive student behavior reflecting [...]
Americans are still almost a year away from heading to the polls to choose their next president, but significant campaign money is already flowing as the country lurches into its first presidential election since campaign finance regulations were gutted by the Supreme Court. The 2010 midterm contests were noted for the massive infusion of cash [...]
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