America: A Law Unto Itself Longstanding principles of international law “have given way to the idea that there are two sets of rules in the world: one for the United States, and one for everyone else,” said David Swanson, anti-war activist and publisher of the influential website, WarIsACrime.org. “Even so-called ‘human …
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Mickey Huff in studio with Project Censored affiliate professor Nolan Higdon talks to Dr. Keith Kilty, professor eneritus at Ohio State College of Social Work, regarding poverty in America fifty years after the War on Poverty; then a Project Censored Validated Independent News update concerning new attacks on academic freedom in TX at the …
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Survey Says: The Rich Have Different Priorites, And Tend to Get Their Way The wealthiest Americans in the country have disproportionate influence over our nation’s leaders. Problem is, as F Scott Fitzgerald noted, the rich are different. Today’s guest, Professor Benjamin Page, is co-author of a new study of the …
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On June 12, 1963, the very day that civil-rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss., four New York-based activists, all of them prominent in the struggle for equality, were asked in a wide-ranging discussion with Richard Heffner, host of “The Open Mind” (PBS), to assess the politics of …
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The Causes of Violence Gary Null and Richard Gale Progressive Radio Network, January 16, 2013 The recent mass shootings at schools and colleges, shopping malls, theaters, and a Sikh temple have unleashed a psychological terror on Americans, reminding us that murder can happen anywhere. One of the most urgent questions …
The overwhelming onslaught of rules and regulations is yet another factor rendering America unfit for human life! This trend would surely have been very hard to predict fifty years ago yet it is part of your daily lives in the U.S. today. Several examples of the invasive intrusions into your …
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The banking financial war on humanity and the destruction of America’s social contract Steve Lendman is an independent , progressive economist and investigative writer who consistently tackles the most critical issues in the world as soon as they emerge. He degrees from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School …
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Read Matt Taibbi’s article: Secret and Lies of the Bailout from the latest Rolling Stone. Most of us knew we’d been had but Taibbi manages to put it all together in a clear, lucid and riveting fashion. The degree of subterfuge from the highest levels of government over the bailouts was/is breathtaking. …
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Stanford geophysicists are well represented at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. Included among the many presentations will be several studies that relate to predicting - and preparing for – major earthquakes in the Himalaya Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. The AGU Fall Meeting …
How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is “improving” when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in …
Indeed, they are. For that, the US has launched full-scale wars in close vicinity to the region (not to mention local clashes and a “limited” use of drones on a wider number of countries), slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, depriving them of the basic human right – …
The Democrats could not have won so handily without the Citizens United ruling. That is what enabled the Koch Brothers to spend their billions to support right-wing candidates that barked and growled like sheep dogs to give voters little civilized option but to vote for “the lesser evil.” This will …
What exactly is it that Israel intends to do with the Palestinians now in the territories that it has just opened for home construction for Jewish settlers, thereby extending its policy of occupying and annexing what are legally Palestinian lands? The U.N. General Assembly’s overwhelming vote last week to grant …
Incredulous that Wall Street investment bankers and billionaire CEOs have descended on Washington in the midst of ongoing budget talks to tell Americans that they should “lower their expectations” when it comes to the security of their retirement and future health care, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate …
Access to justice is a core American value. But a new survey of the rule of law across the globe finds that the U.S. ranks surprisingly low relative to its high-income peers in terms of access to legal counsel in civil disputes and equal protection under criminal law. The “Rule …