The state of Florida is moving forward in its attempt to potentially remove up to 200,000 state residents from active voting rolls and bar them from voting in this November’s election, despite the controversy receiving national attention and activist groups repeatedly calling on the state to stop what is being described as brazen voter suppression. [...]
NATO’S NEW “PARTNERSHIPS” ARE “SPRINGING UP LIKE POISONOUS MUSHROOMS AFTER A SPRING RAIN.” (Boiling Frogs) This month’s summit in Chicago demonstrated the aggressive expansion of NATO, which is the cover entity for the worldwide military presence of the United States. An especially active area of expansionism involves such Balkan states as Macedonia and Bosnia, to whom the [...]
` PRESIDENT OBAMA’S “KILL LIST” A REVOLUTIONARY STEP IN THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY. (New York Times) ` President Obama and the current administration have already shown a willingness to embrace highly controversial and legally questionable tactics in pursuing groups and individuals deemed a threat to U.S. interests or branded a “terrorist” by U.S. [...]
U.S. COLLEGE STUDENT, WOULD YOU RATHER?—DROP OUT OF SCHOOL OR TAKE ON MORE STUDENT LOANS? (World Socialist) A New York Times article joins the parade of pundits and politicians who blame the “naivite” and irresponsibility of students and their parent for the ever-growing number of Americans facing debts from student loans that they cannot pay. Little [...]
NEW CODE OF “RESPECTABLE” JOURNALISM: “EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF EMPIRE IS NO VICE.” (Dissident Voice) James Petras, simply by substituting the word “empire” for “freedom” in the Barry Goldwater’s famous saying about extremism, lays bare the tendency of mainstream media like the New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times to pay obeisance to the [...]
Nearly 200,000 Florida residents may be disenfranchised by their state government, with officials in Gov. Rick Scott’s administration seeking to “scrub” names from the voter rolls in time for the November election. A broad coalition of voting rights groups are pleading with Gov. Scott and the Florida secretary of state — in charge of the [...]
“OUR SITUATION IS NOT EASY-WITH NO ONE HELPING US.” (IPS News) A refugee in southern Mali from civil strife in the north of the country voices this complaint. The World Food Programme is attempting to address the situation in a recent addition to African scenes of humanitarian crisis; but the help is slow in being delivered [...]
CHICAGO’S “MY KIND OF TOWN”—-IF MY NAME IS “MO” OR “GLOVES.” (Black Agenda Report) Two Chicago police with these nicknames were very much in “evidence” in the plotting of a “terrorist plot” in the days leading up to just-concluded NATO Summit conference. They worked their way into the confidence of radicalized protesters and created [...]
` THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ENERGY IS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT. (Business Insider) ` With projects like the infamous Keystone XL pipeline from Canada through the heartland of America inexorably marching towards approval, the next chapter of America’s addiction to fossil fuels appears to be Canadian oil sands. The massive tar sands deposits in Alberta is home to perhaps [...]
More than two years after the Supreme Court decimated campaign finance regulations with their Citizens United decision creating the dreaded “super-PAC” and allowing unlimited and anonymous donations from individuals and corporations, a conservative oil tycoon from Oklahoma has become an embodiment of the fears voiced by activists and critics of the Court’s ruling. While the [...]
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