Aletho News | February 25, 2010 Obama’s provision of $54 billion in loan guarantees to the nuclear industry will cost Americans much more than the probable 50% default rate that the Congressional Budget Office anticipates. While the federal government will guarantee the profits of investors, rate payers will suffer the inevitable rate hikes. Higher electric rates will appear, not when plants begin operating ...

Co-founder and long time California Charter School Association board member and gubernatorial candidate, Steve Poizner targets un-documented workers with racist speech at the conservative CPAC   Charter Schools, segregation and capitalism: they all go together   I have written a great deal about the debilitating and dis-associative effect of charter schools.   “Charter schools, as I and many others have arg ...

As one takes a glimpse at the economic and social problems ailing the US , one cannot help but ask if there are similarities between the fall of the former Soviet Union and the current free-fall of the United States . For that matter, it is important to look at the current state of affairs in Russia and measure them against that taking place currently in the United States . Is Obama our Gorbachav?  The Afgh ...

By Guest Blogger Terry Morrone The good old USA has added another country to its empire. It was an earth quake assisted takeover. The major media as usual have the story all wrong. While a few stories in the major media covered the ineffectiveness of US aid, most focused instead on the poor, miserable and incompetent Haitians. The real facts are on the internet and on Pacifica Radio. I’m going to describe w ...

We are now witnessing the first act of the increased US troop level in Afghanistan. The scene is Marjah in Helmand Province. There, the US has sent some 10,000 US troops and an even greater number of Afghani troops. The idea is to break the Taliban’s control over this remote, dusty village of some 35,000 residents. Militarily, the US/Kabul assault on Marjah will succeed. However, as in all such wars, the ev ...

CENSORED IN 1984: CHLAMYDIA--THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE --LEADS TO STERILITY One hundred thousand women a year are becoming sterile from NGU (nongonococcal urethritis), an inflammation of the urinary tube commonly called Chlamydia. It infects some 3 to 10 million Americans each year, making it far more widespread than either gonorrhea or genital herpes, and the most significant sexually transmitte ...

In the past, TSA officials would swab random bits of luggage looking for traces of explosives. Now, they are randomly swabbing airline passengers as well. Security experts consulted by CNN said swabbing hands is a good move, and privacy advocates said they support the new swabbing protocols, provided the agency tests only for security-related objects and does not discriminate when it selects people to be te ...

You can’t make this stuff up!   For all readers: A bit of news from the decks of the Titanic.  The activities follow the criminal threat and assault pattern emerging in the zero-tolerance atmosphere of American culture.  One involves Detroit teachers; the other involves students. I have attempted to view the serial crimes of the school privatizers and their corporate sponsors in detail, for analysis must be ...

Michael Collins Federal district court Judge Jed S. Rakoff called off a J.P. Morgan deal in an order that revealed the inside track on how the financial giant does business. The ruling of January 28 prevents Morgan from selling or participating the $225 million loan it made to Cablevisión, owned in the majority by Grupo Televisa, one of Mexico's largest telecommunications companies. (Image) Cablevisión used ...

This past week, the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization that brought Guantanamo into the American consciousness, appealed to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture on behalf of a mentally ill juvenile inmate in Montana that has been held in inhumane conditions, suffering torture and humiliation. ...