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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nano food packaging is the most commercialized of the agri-food nanotechnologies, designed to enhance shelf-life durability and freshness of food. Despite all the perceived benefits, there are mounting ecological concerns with nanotechnologies. Studies show that nanoparticles gain ready access to the blood stream after being inhaled, while some can directly penetrate the skin. There is [...]
John Edward Dawson was arrested in Monroe County in Tennessee, on theft and drug charges. The courts appointed an attorney to represent him. However, back at the jail, a detective posed as Dawson’s defense attorney, in order to gather incriminating evidence. The detective told Dawson he could get him out of jail and take care [...]
Animal rights activists may now be legally restricted for rising evidence against their industrial agriculture factories that continue acts of animal torture and abuse. Iowa and Florida have proposed a new law that would make undercover recording of these abuses illegal. In order to prevent the outside world from seeing these atrocious acts of cruelty [...]
The Obama administration has quietly put into practice an ‘incomplete idea’ left over from the Bush II presidency: creating a de facto ‘presidential international assassination program.’ Court documents, evidence offered by Human Rights Watch and a special United Nations report allege that U.S citizens suspected of encouraging “terror” had been put on “death lists.” Reports [...]
Republicans in the U.S. House of representatives are trying to eliminate all federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The issue will go before the Senate by the beginning of March. Republicans accused the organization of providing abortion services with Title X funding, which is not true because such centers have been providing evidence that such funding [...]
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Muslims have been among the chief targets of the U.S. government’s “war on terror.” As a result, Muslims in communities across the U.S. have been subjected to both heightened surveillance and privacy invasions, resulting in the arrests of thousands of Muslim Americans, especially evident amongst the Muslim male population. [...]
The Bush administration’s undercover relationships with owners of mainstream media corporations like Fox News, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and others led to the intimidation of news reporters, who failed to report the truth about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In fact, the corporate media played a major role in promoting the U.S. invasion of Iraq [...]
