With many eyes on Venezuela, due to the constant vilification of now deceased Hugo Chavez by the corporate media, what often gets lost is the social and economic revolution in Ecuador. President Rafael Correa was elected once again in Ecuador on February 17, 2013 with a stunning majority of voters, especially youth, turning out in […]
Bloomberg.com had an incredible story on May 17th and if you haven’t seen it you should. You can find it at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/dental-abuse-seen-driven-by-private-equity-investments.html). Unbelievable fraud, pain and torture, using children as commodities to profit private equity investors are all detailed in this incredible story of late stage capitalism and the culture of parasitic cruelty that accompanies […]
One can only thank Cliff Kincaid, the Director of the AIM Center for his investigative journalism and he can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org. for his fine reporting on the current state of the newspaper, the Washington Post. On Thursday, May 10, 2012 The Washington Post Company held its annual meeting for stockholders. According to Kincaid: […]
Carlos Miller, whose whose blog Photography is Not A Crime tirelessly covers the intersection of police and cameras, thought he had come upon as story made of pure gold, it had sex, a lawless cop, and even a kitten. But when his publisher pulled the article without even contacting him, he saw his profits plummet. […]
On January 1, 2009, young Oscar Grant was killed by a transit cop in Oakland, California. While lying face down with a cop kneeling on his neck, Grant was shot in the back by another cop as a crowd of train passengers watched in horror. Grant, was an African-American; Mehserle is white. Both were in […]
The public education deterioration metastasizes Crime scene: this time Rhode Island It seems that the “turnover artists” (for they turnover schools to privatizers) are pillaging Rhode Island public schools as we knew they eventually would. While Obama plays hacki sak with Republicans over a public option for health care, capitalism takes more and more victims […]
The public education deterioration metastasizes Crime scene: Rhode Island It seems that the “turnover artists” (for they turnover schools to privatizers) are pillaging Rhode Island public schools as we knew they eventually would. While Obama plays hacki sak with Republicans over a public option for health care on TV, capitalism takes more and more victims […]