IS AMERICA DEALING WITH THE NEEDS OF ITS GROWING HOMELESS POPULATION? NOT EVEN CLOSE, SAYS DIANE NILAN. Ever since the War on Poverty became the War on the Poor and the federal government opened its boondoggling agenda of “10 year plans” to “eradicate” homelessness, most U.S. communities have managed to ignore the immediate needs [...]
“THERE ARE ALWAYS WAYS TO WORK FOR PEACE.“ So says Kathy Kelly, describing some of her work with Afghan Peace Volunteers. Besides urging international action to demand and enforce a cessation of hostilities in the country, APV supports a collective of Afghan women who work to create vital supplies of bedding and warm clothing [...]
Corporate tax avoidance is first and foremost on the kinds of an increasing number of large American corporations that are picking up their company headquarters and moving overseas. Flush with breaks and loopholes provided by Congress that have enabled them to pay rates far below the advertised U.S. corporate tax, businesses are nonetheless fleeing America’s [...]
LIBERALS, DON’T GET TOO ENTHRALLED BY THE “ROBERTS COURT” IN THE WAKE OF ITS RULING ON OBAMACARE. (Reader Supported News) Bill Blum issues this warning, noting that the upholding of “Obamacare” in last week’s decision may have been a victory of sorts for health care “coverage” since it sustained the “individual mandate” on grounds that [...]
“FORTUNATELY FOR OHIO, PEOPLE THERE HAD A WAY TO DIRECTLY UNDO THE DAMAGE THEIR GOVERNOR DID. HERE, OUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO UNDO THE GOVERNOR’S TERM IN OFFICE.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Voters in Ohio soundly rejected the legislative overreach of Republican Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday by approving a referendum to repeal Kasich’s signature law [...]
GREAT NEWS FOR FLOWER LOVERS; NEW FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS WILL MAKE YOUR ZINNIAS CHEAPER. (New York Times) After five years of political stalemate, a rare bipartisanship is achieved as Congress approves trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Progressive and union leaders may rail that it means the loss of jobs as the production [...]
Thanks to an aggressive lobbying campaign, American multinational corporations that have been sending their US profits overseas are about to be handed a major victory by Congress in what could amount to a massive tax cut that slashes corporate rates to just over 5 percent. Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and John McCain (R-AZ) have introduced [...]
TODAY IS THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN….BUT WHO IS CELEBRATING IT? (Antiwar.com) Certainly not President Obama, who is in the midst of a re-election campaign in which peoples’ minds are focused on retaining their jobs and their economic benefits in a recessionary period. While the majority of Americans—and the overwhelming majority of Afghans—oppose [...]
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: LIBYA CONTACT GROUP IS PLANNING KOSOVO II FOR THAT COUNTRY. (Asia Times) A consortium of nations consisting mostly of NATO and Arab surrogate states was formed in London in April without any apparent legitimate authority to plan the “future” of Libya, which is very much one of “regime change” through [...]
THINKING THAT IMPENDING U.S.-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WILL HELP THE MASS OF COLOMBIAN PEOPLE? KAREN HANSEN-KUHN SAYS THINK AGAIN. (Common Dreams) Director of a trade and agriculture institute devoted to promoting development interests of developing countries, Hansen-Kuhn sees in Obama administration’s proposed trade pact for Colombia merely a continuation of “free trade” agreements like those [...]
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