THE BIGGEST CORPORATE CORRUPTION CASE YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT. (Reader Supported News) Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone reports at length on the trial in New York City of three executives of GE Capital, the financial arm of General Electric. The case against them has all the earmarks of a Wall Street version of the [...]
The federal government has put the brakes on one of the nation’s most controversial voter ID laws, agreeing with critics that legislation passed in Texas would unfairly target minority voters and possibly lead to mass disenfranchisement starting with this November’s election. At least 18 states have laws on the books that have had what could [...]
The highly controversial $39 billion proposed merger of the second and fourth-largest wireless data companies in the United States is teetering on the precipice of failure. While consumer advocates are cheering the news, many warn that the financial enormity of the deal and the deep political connections involved mean it is nowhere close to dead. [...]
THE LAST THREE DECADES OF THE PECUNIARY RECORD HAVE UNDERLINED A REALITY THAT INCOME INEQUALITY IS RULE, NOT EXCEPTION, IN AMERICA. In case you were wondering what the “99 percent” are doing on the streets, here is a slap in the face courtesy the Congressional Budget Office and its examination of income growth in the [...]
Conventional wisdom has pegged President Obama as somehow lacking in his deference and cooperation with Israel, under attack from possible presidential rivals and facing a political crisis among Democratic Jewish voters. But shocking new developments and even a cursory glance at the Obama administration’s record on the topic reveals that the president may not be [...]
AMAZON.COM: GIVING CUSTOMERS A LITTLE BIT OF DOMESTIC SWEATSHOP LABOR WITH EVERY PURCHASE… When one thinks of substandard working conditions in the world of retail and consumer products, what usually comes to mind are images of “sweatshop” factories overseas, in the manufacturing stage of a product’s journey to the United States. But in a remarkable [...]
The fate of Social Security has become a sizzling focal point of the 2012 presidential campaign, with the field of Republicans seeking their party’s presidential nomination engaging in an unprecedented fight over whether the wildly popular government safety net for working Americans is a “Ponzi scheme” or should be protected. At the heart of the [...]
CIA IS AQAP’S BEST FRIEND IN YEMEN. (Antiwar.com) Persistent drone strikes against “terrorists” in Yemen are producing a bonanza harvest of support of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), unpopular because of its “blunders” in attacks on women in an area that depends heavily on their labor. Resentment of the drone attacks carried out by [...]
Influencing political figures is nothing new for the menagerie of businesses that make up what we now call “Corporate America.” From elected lawmakers to more obscure government officials to those men and women that, as candidates, candidates seeking to become something in our democracy — from a county clerk on up to President of the [...]
OBAMA UBER ALLES: 15 MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS HELP PASS “DEBT RELIEF” BILL THAT WILL COMPLETE THE “RUINATION” OF BLACK AMERICANS. (Black Agenda Report) Glen Ford names names among the 40 members of the Black Caucus after minority leader Nancy Pelosi releases them to “vote their conscience” on a bill that, Ford says, will [...]
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