“Who creates and allows poverty to exist in the wealthiest and most powerful country in recorded history?” (Paul Thomas) The ever-popular education/poverty debate is a chick-or-egg problem; no one is quite sure which came first and how to solve the problem. When looking to fix the problem we need to focus on improving the education [...]
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 [...]
A report published in the summer of 2011 by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime asserts that somewhere between 24% to 39% of illicit amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) worldwide are consumed in East and Southeast Asia, where in particular are “now ranked among the top-three drugs of use in every single one of the [...]
U.S. Federal Reserve Board secretly handed out trillions of dollars in virtually free loans to major American & European banks at the height of the financial crisis between 2007 and 2010, according to an article posted by Bloomberg News. The investigation says the loans received by Wall Street Aristocracy amounted to $1.2 trillion in loans [...]
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. [...]
Wind turbine giant Vestas is planning to build a new factory in the UK, creating 2,000 jobs, the company said today. The Danish-owned firm is applying for planning permission for a new plant at Sheerness in Kent to build turbines for the offshore wind industry. Greenpeace called on the Government to ensure support for offshore [...]
Wind turbine giant Vestas is planning to build a new factory in the UK, creating 2,000 jobs, the company said. The Danish-owned firm is applying for planning permission for a new plant at Sheerness in Kent to build turbines for the offshore wind industry. Greenpeace called on the Government to ensure support for offshore wind, [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in March that the economy produced 192,00 new jobs, so the unemployment rate dropped to 8.9%. This was reported everywhere by corporate media claiming that this is a turning point in the U.S. economy and a sign that our economy is becoming self-sustaining. According to Shadowstats.com, there is no [...]
The UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Ernesto Mendez, urged Washington to prosecute offenders as well as senior officials who ordered the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. “The United States has a duty to investigate every act of torture. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen much in the way of accountability,” [...]
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop an “online [...]
