United States: From Democracy To Oligarchy And Plutocracy
Election 2010: The Best Congress Money Can Buy According to opensecrets.org, there are 130 foreign companies that sponsor PACs ( Political Action Committees) using their US-based subsidiaries to finance countless campaigns in the 2010 election cycle. Together, they have donated more than $12.6 million (and still counting) to political campaigns through various PACs. The electoral […]
Death Penalty: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights
Today is the world day against the death penalty, and Amnesty International is focusing its attention on the United States in the human rights organization’s global push to end capital punishment. The United States is the only country in the Americas that carried out executions in 2009. The paragraph below, from Amnesty International, best sums […]
Foreclosure Crisis: Homeowners Take On Banksters In California
In California, which is one of the epicenters of the foreclosure epidemic with Nevada, Arizona and Florida, an activist group is organizing struggling homeowners in their desperate fight to keep a roof above their heads. The Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment has just launched two days ago the Home Defenders League. The goal of […]
Corporations’ “Right To Privacy” Versus Freedom Of Information Act
The Supreme Court is back in session, and has agreed to hear the case Federal Communications Commission V. AT & T. This case, if won by AT & T would be a judicial disaster and could make the Freedom Of Information Act completely toothless by expanding an exemption to disclosure for documents that “invade personal […]
Spying on Its Citizens: As American as Apple Pie
During the Bush-era, in the sweeping intrusive context of the “Patriot Act”, US citizens found out that their international communications were spied on with the generous complicity of their “trusted” telephone companies such as AT & T and Verizon. These actions were, until 2008, clearly outside the norms of the defined wiretap authorizations given by […]
