U.S. press freedom suffers under Obama, survey finds – Washington TimesThe Obama administration’s handling of whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaks and the investigation of a string of leaks produced a plunge in the country’s rating on press freedoms and government openness, according to a global survey released Tuesday. The U.S.
JPMorgan Vice President’s Death Shines Light on Bank’s Close Ties to the CIAJPMorgan Vice President’s Death Shines Light on Bank’s Close Ties to the CIA By Pam Martens and Russ Martens The nonstop crime news swirling around JPMorgan Chase for a solid 18 months has started to feel a little spooky – they do lots of crime but never any time; and with each closed case, a trail of unanswered questions remains in the public’s mind.
Lorde’s Suppressed Grammy Award acceptance speech (Full Transcript) 26 January 2014Update: Lorde’s suppressed Grammy speech makes front-page news in New Zealand Lorde’s censored handwritten Grammy speech Full Transcript (with citations) of Lorde’s speech Lorde Censored: The Queen Bee’s Suppressed Grammy Speech http://wp.me/p3PDmH-7j See the Full Story: Royal Pencil in Print: Lorde’s suppressed Grammy speech makes front-page news in far-flung New Zealand at http://wp.me/p3PDmH-6i Lorde: Thankyou soo…
The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the XXI Century.The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the XXI Century. Preface The following text is an excerpt of the Preface of The Global Economic Crisis. The Great Depression of the XXI Century , Montreal, Global Research, 2010.
Political Corruption and CapitalismCorruption is endemic to the capitalist system and has not been successfully regulated away. Perhaps a system change is warranted? Nearly daily, mass media report political corruption across the world. Government bureaucrats, from local to national to international, are exposed for having abused their offices for personal gain.
David Simon on America as a Horror ShowBILL MOYERS: Welcome. President Obama’s State of the Union address and the rebuttals from the Republican Greek chorus already have been extensively vetted by the media. So as we say here in New York, enough already.
Let Banks Fail Is Iceland Mantra as 2% Joblessness in SightIceland let its banks fail in 2008 because they proved too big to save. Now, the island is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal.
Why There’s No OutcryPeople ask me all the time why we don’t have a revolution in America, or at least a major wave of reform similar to that of the Progressive Era or the New Deal or the Great Society.
The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wagesIn early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators.
America’s most popular prescription sleep medication linked to mass shootingsA new report describing the bizarre and dangerous side effects of the sleep aid Ambien has once again raised questions about one of the United States’ most popular prescription drugs. In a story by the Fix, Allison McCabe chronicled the numerous cases in which Ambien has caused individuals to commit unsafe, and sometimes deadly acts.
Coming to an office near youINNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life.
Vertical farms sprouting all over the worldLeader: ” Fruit and veg, fresh from the skyscraper” URBAN warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you’d expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to Scranton, Pennsylvania, “vertical farms” are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide.
Paul Lenda ~ A New Worldview Is Emerging In SocietyHumanity is at a crossroads where it will decide whether to move forward towards a bright future or follow the old worldview and plunge into a dystopian darkness. Whichever path we choose at this ever-so-critical moment in human history, it will surely determine the fate of our species for a long time to come.
The Dark Side of Globalization: Why Seattle’s 1999 Protesters Were RightIn 1999, my friend moved to Seattle, where he was hit with rubber bullets, tear-gassed in the face, and nearly arrested by police. He had joined the famous protests of the WTO Ministerial Conference, widely known as the Seattle Protests. The Occupy Wall Street of their time, they focused on globalization rather than the excesses of finance.
Trial on Detroit Swaps Deal Is DelayedPaul Sancya/Associated Press A trial over how Detroit should end costly financial contracts with two big banks was suspended Monday after more than a foot of snow fell, paralyzing much of the city and closing the federal courthouse there.
NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of CongressThe National Security Agency on Saturday released a statement in answer to questions from a senator about whether it “has spied, or is … currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials”, in which it did not deny collecting communications from legislators of the US Congress to whom it says it is accountable.
US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – pollThe US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece.
Constitution ‘exemption’ zone spans 100 miles inland of US border- judgeAFP Photo / John Moore A US federal judge has reaffirmed an Obama administration policy granting officials the authority to search Americans’ laptops, citing a controversial premise that makes citizens within 100 miles of the border eligible for a police check.
On Thursday President Obama signed into law the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a sweeping defense policy bill, which includes some improvements in terms of civil liberties and human rights on its previous two iterations. However, a number of provisions — as in the 2012 and 2013 NDAAs — should keep civil libertarians concerned.
Obama signs NDAA 2014, indefinite detention remains
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