Source – rutherford.org – “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of…
Source – ecowatch.com – Free market capitalism is the most powerful economic engine ever devised. But, according to Kennedy, it must be harnessed to a social purpose, as it will drag us down the path of political oligarchy and environmental destruction. At this year’s Waterkeeper Alliance conference in Boulder, Colorado, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivered a provocative unscripted keynote that…
Source – journal-neo.org – President Obama just like any other US politician is particularly keen on criticizing human rights situations in other countries, while glorifying the ideals of “American-style democracy.” Moreover, these topics are not simply the prime topic of his speeches, but the basis for meddling in other countries’ affairs under the guise of “promoting…
Source – counterpunch.org – Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both spent around $1bn on their 2012 presidential campaigns. Rather than fund a candidate in 2016, New York billionaire Donald Trump decided to stand himself. “My income is $400m a year,” he claimed. “Sure, I would spend it [on campaigning].” In 1992 billionaire Ross Perot promised…
Source – dailycallernewsfoundation.org, By Jonah Bennett – For many Americans, a coup in which the military seizes control of the federal government is starting to seem like a refreshing alternative to the existing administration, according to a new poll. Conducted by YouGov, a new survey has found that 29 percent of Americans could imagine a…
Source – thirdworldtraveler.com – This article was first published by GR 14 years ago upon the inauguration of our website on September 9, 2001 What drives incarceration and the massive build-up in American criminal justice? Are specific corporate interests taking control of criminal justice policy, as is often the case with military policy? Has the…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org, By Paul Craig Roberts – The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top executives of a publicly owned corporation generally come to their positions late in life. Consequently, they have a few years in which to make their…
Source – rt.com – The Department of Veterans Affairs still has a massive backlog of nearly 900,000 healthcare applications ‒ including more than 300,000 from veterans who died waiting for their benefits to be approved, a report by the agency’s inspector general found. The VA’s internal watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General, released a…
Source – revolution-news.com – This report provides a new understanding of the growing ways in which those in poverty are disproportionately targeted, marginalized, and prosecuted. Poor people, especially people of color, face a far greater risk of being fined, arrested, and even incarcerated for minor offenses than other Americans. A broken taillight, an unpaid parking…
Source – mintpressnews.com – The private prison industry has become an increasingly lucrative business, as the companies running them seek to increase profits by cutting inmates’ food provisions while pressuring state governors to guarantee prisons remain 90 percent full at all times. In recent years, for-profit prisons have grown in popularity. The number of private…
Source – americanfreepress.net – In the aftermath of the September 11 false flag attacks, civil libertarians and constitutionalists have made a variety of criticisms of the manner in which United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal level have responded to the supposed threat of terrorism, who have devised increasingly…
Source – operationdisclosure.blogspot.ca – (Editors Note: …Personally, I filed this one behind my ‘Flat Earth’ dossier – after all, wasn’t he Milt Romney’s hand-picked running-mate in 2012?. Yes he of Bain Capital fame, the very epitome of fraudulent corporate America. Yet at some point in time ” Amerika Inc” will succumb & fall, & in…
Source – america.aljazeera.com – The number of people who become chronically homeless overwhelms the dwindling supply of affordable housing, according to a report released today by the Economic Roundtable, a research organization based in Los Angeles. “Ending chronic homelessness will be feasible if fewer people become homeless,” said Daniel Flaming, author of the report. “This…
Source – commondreams.org, By Lauren McCauley – According to officials, the Pentagon hopes to expand the use of lethal drone strikes in the years ahead. (Photo: US Air Force) The U.S. Pentagon is poised to dramatically increase the deployment of surveillance drones over “global hot spots” such as Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, the South China Sea,…
Source – alternet.org – This anniversary is a crossroads, a time to decide what to run toward and what to cast aside for a lighter burden. Ten years ago, I was a “refugee” from an American city. The consequence of that label has been a chaos of circumstances and quick decisions. The first 10 years,…
Source – thefreethoughtproject.com – “‘You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up; somebody’s going to jerk our chain.’ He said, ‘they’re going to call us on it, and before you know it, they’re going to…
Source – investmentwatchblog.com – Anonymous 2015 You Live In A Police State Whether You Believe It Or Not. We must all stand united and peacefully before it’s too late. AC http:ww.investmentwatchblog.com/anonymous-you-live-in-a-police-state-whether-you-believe-it-or-not/#WdemRYQDhW4dT44B.99
Source – wakingtimes.com – Sometimes you have to put out information in hopes that those who haven’t heard this will at least absorb a fraction of it. If you haven’t heard this and you absorb just one of these random points, I believe that may be enough to cause a major paradigm shift in your…
Source – rutherford.org – “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.”—They Live We’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then…
Source – mybudget360.com – It is hard to believe but we are now “officially” six years into this recovery. For most Americans, it doesn’t feel anything like a recovery and that label appears to be a misnomer. Americans need only look at their paychecks and the cost of living to realize that yes, things are…
Source – – The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines an ‘oligarchy’ as: “A government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.” Former President Jimmy Carter had some choice words for our form of government, post-Citizen’s United, on my radio program this week.. When I asked him his thoughts on the…
Source – globalresearch.ca – Shop owners, taxi drivers protest against real estate magnates, unlicensed drivers A rally and march in Hart Plaza and at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (City Hall) on July 21 exposed the false narrative emanating from the corporate media saying that Detroit is being revitalized. The city emerged from a contrived…
Source – forbes.com – The Rust Belt is resurgent, with Detroit leading a trio of Michigan metro areas that are creating the most new manufacturing jobs. But employment data also show a shift in U.S. industry to smaller cities and suburban areas Manufacturing may no longer drive the U.S. economy, but industrial growth remains a…
Source – firstlook.org, By Murtaza Hussain – Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for “disloyal Americans.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts in the wake of the mass shooting in Chatanooga, Tennessee, Clark said that during World War II, “if…
Source – naturalnews.com – The mainstream media continues to do its best to try to convince us that we are in the midst of an economic recovery while the rest of us are asking the question: just who is benefiting? Certainly not the average American family, according to the statistics I keep seeing. Perhaps, like…
Source – waldenlabs.com – This is what real revolution looks like. This is the future. Ron Finley in South Central LA was tired of living in a food desert and he decided to do something about it. He took back control over his food supply and health, while also setting his community on a path…
Source – injusticebusters.org – The prisoner who’s dubbed the North American Nelson Mandela seemed pleased to see me. At first I had been refused access to Leonard Peltier, the Ojibwa-Sioux serving two life sentences in the maximum security federal prison at Leavenworth for the death of two FBI agents at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reserve…
Source – rt.com – A leaked document shows nearly one-third of the 847,000 veterans in the Department of Veteran Affairs’ backlog died while waiting for treatment, amounting to more than 238,000 patients, according to documents obtained by the Huffington Post. The VA maintains that the number is so large because it has no mechanism to…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – BuzzFeed News obtained internal Ministry of Education data for 2011 that has never before been made public. For Afghanistan overall, the data showed 1,174 schools — almost 1 in every 12 — was a ghost school, an educational facility that the Afghan government publicly claimed was open but that was, in…
Source – allgov.com – One of the nation’s largest private prison operators is being sued for forcing immigrant detainees to work for a dollar a day, and in some cases even less than that. GEO Group Inc., which contracts with the government to imprison illegal immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings, has allegedly forced detainees held at…
Source – zerohedge.com – “The debt-fueled prosperity that so many of us take for granted is about to come to a screeching halt, and we are about to enter the hardest times that any of us have ever known. And we are not just talking about economics either. Based on all of the intel and…
Source – counterpunch.org – “Mock invasions, mock terrorist manhunts, shootouts, and roundups are not jokes…the last shreds of democracy are at stake”: – Anti-militarism activists are shaking their heads in amazement. We have been working for years to push back against the massive military expansion underway both in the US and around the world, fighting back one…
Source – collectivelyconscious.net – Gary Hart, the former senator from Colorado who twice sought the presidency in the 1980s, made a fervent plea for American youth to summon the courage necessary to revolt against the hopelessly corrupt government: “The question is: by adhering to the highest principles and ideals, will America continue to have the…
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