NEW YORK TIMES TAKES ITS LITTLE HATCHET TO A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SUIT BY BLACK FARMERS. An article in the Times derogates a class action lawsuit against the USDA claiming what is a long-known fact, that this agency has conspired with local white racists to administer farm loans in a way to restrict opportunities for [...]
THE IMMIGRATION PUSH: “AT THIS MOMENT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S A GENUINE DESIRE TO GET THIS DONE SOON.“ Following the lead of a bipartisan group of senators that introduced legislation earlier in the day, President Obama on Tuesday delivered a public endorsement of the effort to achieve “comprehensive” immigration reform. The president spoke of [...]
HELL ON EARTH: AUSTRALIA FACES UNPRECEDENTED WILDFIRE “CATASTROPHE” Proving that the in-your-face reality of unfettered climate change is not about to recede in the new year, a national disaster is unfolding only days into 2013 in Australia, where rampaging wildfires are burning huge swaths of the country. Australians are used to the annual “bushfire [...]
“WAITING FOR SUPERMAN” (ARNE DUNCAN) AND HE “WON’T BACK DOWN.” Last year’s and this year’s entries in the bash-the-teachers derby movies have made the same point: that big city schools are a mess, the teachers and the unions are to blame, and that union-busting and turn-around closing of “failing” schools to be replaced by [...]
The darkest and most frightening echoes of the 2008 financial crisis that rocked the global economy were stirred over the past week as mega-bank JP Morgan Chase broke the news of a stunning $2 billion loss in a trading debacle similar to the kind that conspired to wreak the American economy only three-and-a-half years ago. [...]
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES DISPLAY SOME BAD MANNERS, ALL BECAUSE OF A LITTLE GENOCIDE. (Black Agenda Report) Australian Prime Minister and opposition leader join in condemning protests in which aborigines were displaying their “righteous anger” in a way which puts a damper on Australia Day festivities. The opposition leader says that all Australians love their native population, [...]
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 [...]
Executives at two giants of the US mortgage industry were fingered by the federal government as perpetrators of fraud in one of the few cases ever to come out of the 2008 financial meltdown despite its consequences nearly bringing down the global economy. And in a political twist, President Obama and his potential election challenger [...]
WHAT DO PUBLIC AGENCIES DO WHEN THEY FACE A BUDGET DEFICIT? WHY, THEY CUT SERVICES OF THEIR PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF COURSE. (The Nation) Just as free library services are all the more urgently-needed in difficult economic times, these “times” bring with them the pressure to reduce public expenditures for them. This is symbolized in the [...]
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