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 [...]
JULIAN ASSANGE: WHERE THERE IS UNITY IN GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION, THERE MUST BE UNITY IN CITIZENS’ RESPONSE. In a speech at the embassy of Ecuador in London which has granted him asylum from extradition to Sweden, the Wiki-Leaks founder praises crowd of “witnesses” who turned out in the middle of the night, crediting them with [...]
Most eyes were watching the United States Supreme Court on Monday in anticipation of a potentially historic ruling on President Obama’s health care reform law. Instead, the justices delayed a ruling on the “Affordable Care Act” until later in the week while issuing a more surprising — and complicated — decision regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration [...]
The White House issued new rules for the treatment of young immigrants subject to deportation on Friday, an order hailed by President Obama and his supporters as a significant milestone and by conservatives as potentially unconstitutional “amnesty” for “illegals.” But for immigration activists and the millions of immigrants facing forcible removal from the United States [...]
PHILADELPHIA STORY: COULD BE U.S. STORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLOSING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (Black Agenda Report) Philadelphia is only one of the most recent of numerous school systems including Atlanta and New York City, following the lead of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago public schools in wielding a [...]
One state’s experiment with the nation’s strictest law targeting undocumented immigrants is coming apart disastrously, with proponents now rushing to dramatically scale back their own legislation in order to stave off an economic catastrophe. Almost one year ago, Alabama lawmakers proposed and then quickly passed what can easily be labeled the country’s “toughest” law against undocumented immigrants. Loosely [...]
ORPHANED BY DEPORTATION: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS DESTROYING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES. (Huffington Post) As repeatedly touted by the Obama administration, 2011 was a record year for deportations carried out by the federal government, with nearly 400,000 immigrants — most of them with clean criminal records and with lives already established in the US — [...]
For all of the super-PAC money, the strategists, the pollsters, the “bundlers” and the armies of staffers and supporters that are being organized to influence this November’s presidential election, President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and a Republican Party desperate to defeat him are both blindly committing serious missteps that could end up costing them the [...]
ON THE WAR PATH: “WE ARE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT IRANIAN PLOTTING AGAINST U.S. OR ALLIED INTERESTS…” (Haaretz) American military and intelligence officials are ramping up the rhetoric against Iran in what appears to be an unmistakable search for a pretext that could justify U.S. military action against the Iranian regime. News broke this week that [...]
U.S. SPECIAL FORCES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, INTO THE LIMELIGHT. (Counterpunch) Conn Hallinan notes a sea change in the relationship between “clandestine” military operations and the overall command structure of the U.S. military. Masen with special forces background are increasingly being moving by the Pentagon into overall command positions, and the commander-in-chief seems to be [...]
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