Republished from RT.com [Photo: Senator Barbara A. Mikulski] The blowback caused by a new law that lets biotech companies like Monsanto escape litigation is so tremendous that a senior senator from Maryland has offered the public an apology. US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) has issued a statement expressing her regret for letting this year’s [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling. You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. — Al Capone In Reckless Endangerment, a lively exposé of the frauds at the heart of the subprime meltdown, journalists Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner wrote that if “mortgage [...]
By Shannon Jones. Originally published at WSWS.org. [Photo: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder at meeting in Detroit.] At a Friday press town hall event in Detroit, Michigan, Republican Governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in the city. The announcement paves the way for the governor to appoint an emergency manager, armed with draconian powers, to [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… A Senate proposal claiming to “protect” Americans’ email privacy from unwarranted secret state intrusions “has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law,” CNET revealed. As provisions of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) are “updated” to better reflect the insatiable needs [...]
By Bob Sloan and Mike Elk. Republished from The Nation series on the American Legislative Exchange Council in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy. Introduction by John Nichols. The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a [...]
Editor’s Note: As the negotiations go on to avoid the totally avoidable “Fiscal Cliff,” I think it is important to remember the real players at the table, and just how much we have lost as a democracy. Nothing encapsulates that better than the continued influence of ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council. This video [...]
By Colin Todhunter. Republished from Global Research [Image courtesy of Canadian Content.] British PM Cameron is often quite keen to stand in front of the TV cameras and lecture the public on the values of peace and democracy in an unstable world. With his public school accent and an air of authority and respectability afforded [...]
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