Detroit Goes Bankrupt: Will Unelected Manager Pit City’s Needs Against Rights of Pensioners?
Facing an estimated $18 billion in debt, Detroit has become the largest U.S. municipality to file for bankruptcy
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Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents
Poitras discusses her repeated detention and interrogation by federal agents whenever she enters the United States.
Read MoreBarack Obama's sledgehammer against dissent: Amy Goodman
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have used the Espionage Act six times to prosecute whistle-blowers –
Read MoreScahill – Obama pushed the Cheney agenda
There are hundreds of covert operations on multiple continents in full support of the White House....
Read MoreAmy Goodman – mainstream media now "extreme media beating drums for war"
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! explained how the mainstream media looks at the world through a corporate lens.
Read MorePresidential debates are scripted and fake
Presidential debates are highly scripted, orchestrated and controlled events and pervert real democracy.
Read MoreCorporate personhood may open door to criminal prosecution
The 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, ruled that corporations as sort of metaphysical persons have broad rights under the First Amendment and can directly fund political campaigns. Now the court will have to decide if these metaphysical persons not only have rights but also responsibilities in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The outcome will determine whether survivors of human rights violations in foreign countries can bring lawsuits against corporations in U.S. courts.
Read MoreGoldman Sachs vs Low income banks, credit unions
Back in 2008, Goldman Sachs, which is an investment bank—that meant that all their losses were there—was turned into a commercial bank, within 24 hours, so they could qualify for $10 billion in bailout funds. But as part of the deal—as part of the deal, Amy—
Read MoreToday’s roundup on Occupy Wall Street movement
it looked like he was coming forward to tell the police to move forward, and instead, he told the police to back off, to many of the police’s shock. You saw them looking at each other: “You’re telling us to move back?” And he said, “Yes, move back.”
Read MoreOccupy Wall Street at last a lefist populist movement
It is the first anti-authoritarian populist movement in this country. The previous populist movements had leaders, usually charismatic leaders. This is very different. We’ve never seen anything quite like this, and I think we’re in uncharted territory. This is a 21st century social movement, where the activists are taking advantage of new social media, from Twitter and Facebook, but also they have a …
Read MoreTax inequity contributes to staggering debt and budget cuts
25 of the nation’s largest corporations paid more money to their CEOs last year than they did to the federal government in income taxes. Often using overseas tax havens, many of the corporations managed to make billions in profits but paid little to nothing in federal taxes.
Read MoreCol Wilkerson “I will testify if Cheney is ‘Pinocheted'”
And I’d be willing to testify, and I’d be willing to take any punishment I’m due. And I have to say, I agree with almost everything he just said. And I think that explains the aggressiveness, to a large extent, of the Cheney attack and of the words like “exploding heads all over Washington.” This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will “Pinochet” Dick Cheney.
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