The 99 Percent Movement was born out of the fact that the country has grown incredibly unequal and millions of Americans are struggling to get by. The richest 1 percent of the country now owns more than 40 percent of the wealth and takes home nearly a quarter of national income. The American [...]
Mike Konczal’s article charts jobs and income growth of top one percent earners and the causes of changing income inequality. With evidence from tax returns the data shown in the article depicts that the top occupations are non-financial executives first, then financial professionals, followed by lawyers, real estate and medical professions. Konczal’s article says that [...]
Biofuel targets set by the European Union and the large financial incentives given to the biofuel industry are some of the real culprits of world hunger (according to Meals per gallon report released Feb., 2010 by the UK Charity ActionAid). Biofuels competing with food for feedstock, as well as shady land takeovers also impact the [...]
A new bill, Arizona HB 2281, which became effective Jan. 1, 2011, was aimed at the popular and successful Mexican American studies program (also known as MAS or La Raza studies) in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). The bill outlaws courses that “promote the overthrow” of the government, “promote resentment toward a race or [...]
In Pam Martens article “Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center” she discusses how recently it came out that there has been more than $150 million in taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in “lower Manhattan where Wall Street firms get to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy [...]
To hear some tell it, the intelligence clues that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan were generated by the use of torture. But the evidence available so far does not bear this out. Torture advocates on the right are claiming vindication. On Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor (5/2/11), Rep. Peter King [...]
New criminal justice reforms that lawmakers passed will undoubtedly save the lives of people who have been wrongly imprisoned. Perhaps the most important was House Bill 215, which reforms police lineup procedures. Witness misidentification was a factor in 75 percent of wrongful convictions, according to the New York-based Innocence Project. HB 215, by Rep. [...]
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp has been a subject of controversy ever since it was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration as a detainment and interrogation facility for prisoners of war. On June 10th, 2006, three Guantanamo prisoners were found dead in their cells, hanging from what had appeared to be a makeshift noose. With [...]
On October 25, 2011 according to a joint assessment released by the United Nations and the organization of American States named Mexico as the fifth most dangerous country in the world of journalism. Mexico is one of several danger zones where the powerful attempt to silence journalists like Maria Elizabeth Macias, who are doing their [...]
A former NYPD narcotics detective, Stephen Anderson, testified in October that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas. He was testifying, under cooperation with prosecuters, in the trial of a fellow detective charged with falsifying public documents and business documents. Anderson says he frequently [...]
