DISASTER IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY: SANDY VICTIMS THROWN TO THE (LOAN) SHARKS. Victims of the superstorm devastation that struck New York and New Jersey are caught in bureaucratic red tape and the disposition of FEMA to administer any “relief” for victims through banks and other lending agencies with loan-shark level interest rates. With [...]
“THE DANGER SIGNS ARE ALL AROUND”: 2012 IS THE YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE With the end of another year comes the predictable reviews of various events and specific categories of what occurred in 2012. For scientists and weather experts, their conclusion is stark and sobering: climate change is happening “before our eyes” and at [...]
As more than 60 million people brace for Hurricane Sandy along the U.S. East Coast this week, the gigantic super storm is seen by scientists as more evidence of the destructive link between extreme weather and man-made climate change. This unnatural “Frankenstorm” may be the gravest and most intense threat from climate change America has [...]
“EVEN THEIR YACHT DIDN’T WANT TO PAY TAXES.” As part of its “shadow convention” project to show what vital issues are being avoided at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Huffington Post runs a piece describing wherein lies the real policitical “action” around the GOP event in Tampa. While Romney intones the usual “morning [...]
NOTHING LIKE A NASTY HURRICANE TO RAMP UP BUSINESS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL. (New York Times) Think of it if you will as the hedge funders of the weather world; the TV channel that specializes in weather news is making some “disaster capitalism” out of the current interest of people being “entertained” by the “live” [...]
OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: CURRENT GIBBERISH NAME FOR U.S. PART IN RE-COLONIZATION OF ARAB MIDDLE EAST. (World Socialist) Bill van Auken, quoting at length from neo-con guru Phillip Zelikow, describes the U.S. foreign policy motives behind the country’s involvement in the “humanitarian intervention” that has destroyed much of Libya. Zelikow’s statements actually belittle the humanitarian definition [...]
“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 [...]
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