“They have been asking for meetings. We have refused everyone,” said Chief Councillor Ellis Ross. “So many mistakes had been made, we had been so angered, but I think that was one of the biggest mistakes they made. You might as well have come into our archives and burned our documents.” By JUSTINE HUNTER VICTORIA More
It’s the Oil, Stupid! Insurgency and War on a Sea of Oil By Michael Schwartz TomDispatch.com June 24, 2014. Read Tom Engelhardt's Introduction here. Events in Iraq are headline news everywhere, and once again, there is no mention of the issue that underlies much of the violence: control of Iraqi oil. Instead, the media is flooded with debate More
(Click to enlarge) dailykos.com June 18, 2014 Relevant article showing photos of the London spikes here. Apparently the number of homeless there is increasing: Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Crisis, said: "This is happening in a context where rough sleeping has gone up massively. Over the last three years rough sleeping has risen More
. . . proposed ‘reforms’ offer ways to rehabilitate perceptions of powerful businesses and corporations, in order to head-off rising worker discontent and thus keep the system going, while continuing to maximise profits for the few at the expense of the planet. By Nafeez Ahmed The Guardian Wednesday, May 28, 2014 TheRawStory.com Yesterday’s [5/27/14] Conference on More
The barriers to women’s progress are not personal, they are structural, and they are embedded in the workings of American capitalism. The Curve: Where feminism and economics intersect. Kathleen Geier and Curve Contributors TheNation.com June 11, 2014 Elba Aquino, foreground, and Alex Nunez, center, both waiters at the Cheyenne Diner in New York (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) Welcome to More
...I must make it clear that I have great admiration for the young Mr. Snowden, for what he did and for how he expresses himself. He may not be a radical, but he is a hero. His moral courage, nerve, composure, and technical genius are magnificent. The Anti-Empire Report #129 By William Blum WilliamBlum.org More
The Latin America of the 21st century is not so easily controlled by gunboat and dollar diplomacy. In spite of dire media reports about Venezuela, U.S. power is on the decline while cooperation between Latin American states is increasing. By Anne Winkler-Morey WAMM Newsletter Spring II 2014 Venezuela moved to the front page as a More
total dis-aggregration and atomization of the social fabric pervasive sense of anxiety overwhelming sense of futility By Jérôme Roos Roarmag.org Posted in: Activism, SourceZ, US ZCommunications April 11, 2014 Last week, two commentaries appeared in The Guardian — one by David Graeber and the other by Costas Lapavitsas and Alex Politaki — basically asking the same question: given that we’re under such relentless assault by the rich and powerful, why More
. . . we need to understand war as the cultural creation that it is and stop imagining it as something imposed on us by forces beyond our control. By davidswanson davidswanson's blog 27 May 2014 By World Beyond War If war were inevitable, there would be little point in trying to end it. If war More
Who are ‘Boko Haram’, and what are they up to in Nigeria? BY 21WIRE SPECIAL REPORT 21st Century Wire MAY 11, 2014 Nigeria’s premier terror circus conveniently grabbed the headlines away from an embattled White House this week (simmering scandals, Behghazi, and IRS), just in the nick of time, pulling off the terror caper of the year. More
Secrecy reigned supreme. Minnesota raised taxes on the rich and invested the resulting revenue in public schools, including all-day kindergarten. . . . Yet in 2012 Minnesota had one of the fastest growing economies in the nation, and currently has higher median incomes and lower unemployment and poverty rates than both Wisconsin and Mississippi . More
The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind? Editor's Note: I am publishing three articles in tandem because each reflects a side of the same problems in American culture. Norman Pollack’s scathing critique (in "Fascist Trifecta") of mainstream corporate media (The New York More
