Between 2004 and 2007 Wachovia Bank handled funds totaling $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses acting on behalf of drug cartels. Wachovia conceded it didn’t do enough oversight in processing the $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses from 2004 to 2007. The transactions amount to the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in [...]
British scientists have developed genetically altered chickens that reportedly do not transmit bird flu to other chickens. Yet these chickens may still contract the sickness themselves. Yet by tampering with the DNA of the chicken, the safety of its meat for human consumption is called into question. The scientific literature remains mute on whether GM [...]
The Microwave oven has been a common household item for more then 40 years now. Yet while microwaves reheat food, they also generate a host of known carcinogens. The ovens produce micro wavelength radiation at a rate of up to 2.45 GHz. This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. The waves agitate the [...]
US War Costs Reach $3.7 Trillion Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have Cost Americans $3.7 Trillion, $12,000 Per Person A study conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies found that over the past 10 years the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost United States taxpayers a total $2.3 to 2.7 trillion, with a [...]
Alabama’s expansive anti-immigrant law, HB56, has been so economically devastating that farmers are seeking legislation to force hard labor on prison inmates eligible for work release programs, to “help farms fill the gap and find sufficient labor.” One of the harshest instances of anti-immigrant legislation in the nation, HB 56 requires local police to verify [...]
It should come as no surprise, at a time when the free world wide web allows people and social movements to access information ignored by the corporate media and to organize mass movements such as the recent overthrow of the Egyptian leadership and the now international Occupy Wall Street, that the corporate media is striking [...]
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 [...]
US states are making drastic cuts to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The TANF is a welfare program financed by block grants to states from the federal government. In 1996 the creators of TANF assured that a TANF Contingency Fund would be available to provide help to people during economic declines however [...]
In 2009 the pentagon simulated an economic warfare. This was no traditional battle game, but rather the Pentagon’s first economic war game. The military are worried about the market. China owns much of the debt, the US’s most powerful rival and threat. That makes America vulnerable to a new kind of bloodless but ruthless war. [...]
On August 29, 2011 after the tenth day of protest in Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. Protestors continue to clash about the suspected 700 billion dollar pipeline. The Keystone XL 700,000 to 800,000 barrels of oil from Canada’s southwestern district to the Gulf of Mexico. This Pipeline will be the biggest built in the United [...]
