This is public notice of an investigation into the political and fiscal relationship between the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, and their agents), the Etowah County Detention Center (ECDC) and staff (especially Sheriff Todd Entrekin), and Representative Robert Aderholt of the US Congress (Alabama’s 4th District). I.C.E. officers Sheriff Entrekin I reported [...]
By Ron Steinman Death is the operative concept that defines the United States Congress, how it works and, frankly, how lately it mostly seems to fail. It is almost as if it wants to fail. Failure is better than softening one’s ideology. We rarely hear that something emerges from Congress that we can describe as [...]
Our neo-liberal capitalist world order is crumbling. The current system has made money and financial considerations at the core of everything. People are valued for their assets or net worth, not for what they are as human beings. Even the “left” political parties in Europe-which have the impudence to call themselves “socialist”-are applying the same [...]
The foreclosure crisis in the United States is not showing any signs of slowing down. Almost no regions and cities of the country are immune from it. The real estate debacle is affecting every region especially Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan. Detroit and Las Vegas can be considered the two metropolitan areas which have been [...]
Thanksgiving is a dubious American holiday. First, for Native Americans, it is the “celebration” of their generosity towards the Pilgrims which promptly paid them back by stealing their land and ultimately committed a genocide against the native population of the new land. Secondly, during Thanksgiving, Americans are supposed to be thankful for what they have. [...]
