This is from Larry Miller's blog and is by Amanda Terkel! Amanda Terkel Scott Walker Quietly Repeals Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Posted: 04/ 6/2012 / Updated: 04/ 6/2012 WASHINGTON -- A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill. The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was mean ...

By Michael Collins There was something tawdry and disgusting about the phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The News Corporation owned tabloid hacked the phone mails of several thousand citizens of Great Britain. Victims included celebrities, politicians, and even a murdered eleven year old kidnap victim. But that wasn't enough to generate type of criminal investigation of News Corporation t ...

This is from ZNet: The interim International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS) was launched in 2012 with the aim of propelling activism for winning a new world. IOPS is structured as a bottom-up, international organization, based on self-managing interconnected national branches and local chapters.  Currently, IOPS is in an interim stage, and by joining IOPS you become an interim member. A con ...

  On April 1, 2012 Nicholas Kristof reported in the New York Times how Goldmann Sachs has been profiting from the sex trade as  16% owner of Village Voice Media. Village Voice media publishes backpage.com one of the largest sellers and publishers of on line ads for  illegal prostitution services.   What Kristof did not report is that  Goldmann Sachs is not the only Wall Street investment firm  dabbling in t ...

Picture of the persident's mansion that is undergoing a $5,000,000 renoovation as workers struggle to meet the necessities of daily life while putting up with harsh abuse at the site of exploitation --- work. Monday, March 26, 2012 Solomon Comissiong, author of this piece,  is a frequent  contributor to Dailycensored.  Readers can use the search engine at this site and find his work. Here, Solomon takes up ...

In late November of 2003, I sat on the floor in a crowded luncheon just a few feet and slightly behind Adrienne Rich, speaking and reading her poetry at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, held that year in San Francisco. Appropriately, Rich was reading from her upcoming collection, The School among the Ruins, and talking about teaching, teachers, and education. I was struc ...

By Michael Collins Ray Adams is a name you will hear more frequently as the latest and perhaps most fatal Murdoch - News Corp. scandal emerges. When Murdoch was setting up his BSKYB cable network in England, he had some serious competition.  ITV had a digital service called ITV Digital.  The British broadcaster was prepared to go head to head with Murdoch's network.  As the services rolled out, ITV Digital ...

Abuses by some for-profit schools put landmark veterans’ education program at risk For-profit colleges and universities are part and parcel of the booming and increasingly accelerating private ownership of the educational means of production in the United States and abroad.  For-profit colleges and universities have managed to wrangle 12 percent of all college students in the United States.  This number inc ...

1-minute movie trailer here. John Carter is a movie about inter-dimensional and shape-shifting aliens, few in number and near-immortal in lifespan, who manipulate willing “leaders” for endless wars. They portend to be legendary gods, and live for psychopathic esoteric domination. In the story, after they establish their control of Mars, “Earth will be next.” They are the hairless robed beings in the 1-minut ...

  Quite a few weapons from the US military are going to police departments throughout the US.  Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the "1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011.  This upswing coincides with an increasingly military-like style of law enforcement most recently seen in the Occupy Wall Street crackdowns. Ac ...