PRESIDENT OBAMA “THROWS IN THE TOWEL” ON POPULISM AND “INTEGRITY” IN HIS ADMINISTRATION Two obscure cabinet appointments with an outsized impact on the daily lives of Americans made by President Obama in the last month offers a startling look at the true course the president’s second term will take, argues Norman Solomon. Penny Pritzker [...]
FOILED BY CONGRESS, GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES TURN TO STATE BALLOTS IN BID TO END VIOLENCE. Lawmakers and organizations in several states are considering whether to place gun-related amendments such as universal background checks on state ballots as soon as the 2014 elections.Though the piecemeal approach is not ideal, activists are beginning to tire of [...]
Like the election campaigns that vaulted the individuals they celebrate into office, modern American presidential libraries have become a hotbed of influence peddling, big money, and secret donations. While the outward appearance of the libraries and museums constructed by and for former presidents are the epitome of civic pride and an homage to public service, [...]
Overwhelming public support for tighter gun laws is failing to spur action in Washington, where lawmakers are struggling to pass a “watered down”gun control bill that pro-gun groups have stuffed with measures actually loosening many restrictions on gun purchases. Five months after the Newtown tragedy that briefly united the public and their politicians into a [...]
WHY DOES BARACK OBAMA HATE FDR? Despite facing slurs of “socialist” and “leftist” from his conservative opponents, President Obama is beginning to irritate fellow Democrats by seemingly turning against the party’s roots. In the same budget that guts Social Security, the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the president has proposed privatizing the Tennessee Valley [...]
EGYPT’S “MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD” LEADERSHIP HAS PRACTICED PRECIOUS LITTLE “BROTHERHOOD” TOWARD ITS MUSLIM BRETHREN IN GAZA. The post-Mubarak regime in Egypt was elected to the immense delight of Palestinians in Gaza as elsewhere, with the expectation that the new government would cease the collaboration of Egypt in maintaining the seige of Gaza by maintaining border [...]
CONNECTICUT ADOPTS “THE STRONGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE BILL IN THE UNITED STATES TO FIGHT GUN VIOLENCE.“ As pro-gun Republicans and Democrats wary of election prospects in red states next year combine to stall new gun regulations on Capitol Hill, some states are taking it upon themselves to crack down on lax gun laws and [...]
“MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT” BRINGS IMMUNITY TO REGULATION OF FOOD TO YOUR DINNER TABLE. It was done quietly last week, an obscure provision slipped into a congressional spending bill, the passage and presidential signing of which averted a government shutdown. The so-named provision allows Monsanto and other corporate food processors exemption from federal regulation by [...]
Net neutrality and other efforts to promote internet fairness and prevent a corporate stranglehold on Americans’ access to the web and other telecommunication technology may be at risk thanks to a prospective new head of the agency that oversees the nation’s telecom industry. President Obama’s first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced last week [...]
GLOBAL WATER CRISIS GETS SCANT MEDIA OR POLITICAL ATTENTION…AND THAT CAN LITERALLY BE DEADLY. Long thought of as solely and environmental issue, access to clean water can no longer be stereotyped as the domain of “tree hugging” activists. With a shrinking supply, climate change and rampant pollution affecting this quite invaluable resource, water is [...]
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