PALESTINIANS JUST LOVE WORKING AT SODASTREAM’S (ILLEGAL) FACTORY TO MAKE ISRAELI FIZZY WATER. Or so says a promotional video for the company. This is one instance of Israeli entrepreneurs who shed “crocodile tears” over the economic condition of Palestinians in the West Bank in “industrial zones” near illegal Jewish settlements. Actually, these “zones” employ relatively [...]
What is considered by many to be the pinnacle of American democracy may be facing its greatest threat since the rampant discrimination of the 20th century that led to the creation of the protective legislation now questioned by the conservative majority that controls the highest court in the nation. Forged in the darkest days of [...]
COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
IT’S ELECTION TIME, ISN’T IT? TIME FOR BOTH PARTIES TO DO A LITTLE CHINA-BASHING. Both Romney and Obama vie for union votes by blaming trade policies of China for the woeful state of the labor economy in the U.S. Romney accuses Obama is being too “soft” on China while the President announces at a [...]
New restrictions on voting rights included in legislation passed by numerous states since the last presidential election is being blamed for the potential disenfranchisement of millions of currently registered voters — including nearly one million in Pennsylvania alone — in time for this November’s contest. The nationwide crackdown on voting is being described as a [...]
` U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS CAN SEE THEIR FUTURE, AND THAT FUTURE IS FILLED WITH DRONES. (Los Angeles Times) An outgrowth of the United States military and intelligence community’s increasing reliance on unmanned aerial drones is the huge chunk of business now made up by drone aircraft for America defense contractors. Foreign nations see what America [...]
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 [...]
TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS IN THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN?—NOT SO MUCH. (IPS News) Countries including some island nations along the continents of Australia, Asia and Africa are mostly ill-prepared to protect their people from recurring tsumanis in the Ocean. In some places, governments do not bother to warn people in certain areas of impending disaster, [...]
` IN BRITAIN THE QUEEN MADE A SPEECH BUT SHE DIDN’T SAY MUCH. (UK Independent) The Queen appears in Parliament to give her regular “speech” that articulates whatever is the policy agenda of the elected Prime Minister and cabinet. The speech given this week marks a signficant slow-down from drastic efforts at reform in 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 [...]
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