The So-Called American Dream Has Become a Nightmare
By Tammy Marchand Many families are still trying to rebound from what was their American dream. The good old American pie seems to have been harboring worms that upset the bellies of many Americans. While it is written that there is nothing new under the sun, one wonders if this statement had a final date […]
Kafkaesque World of Data Mining by the NSA, Search Engines and Social Media
In the surreal world we live in, reality has become stranger than fiction. The information super highway could have produced a completely transparent world, yet the elusive corporate and governmental nexus of Big Brothers has surrounded itself with layers of opacity, secrecy and deception. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens are probed, exposed and have become open books […]
Supermax Prisons and Guantanamo: Worse Than the Gulag?
Saturday October 5, 2013 marks a full year in United States custody for Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad and three other British residents extradited from the United Kingdom to the US. Nobody in the UK knows specifically why they are being held in the US, except that the charges relate, in Talha and Babar’s cases, to […]
The United States’ Obscene Wealth Inequality
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery In the past 33 years, the United States has become a study in blatant and obscene contrasts between the rich and poor. Although FDR’s New Deal helped to lift the country out of the Great Depression and to establish the social and economic policies and standards that created a […]
Life on $2 a Day: US Extreme Poverty on the Rise
By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier A fast-growing group of people in the United States, households with children, are living on $2.00 or less per person per day. This shocking condition in a wealthy country such as the US is formally labeled “extreme poverty” by a World Bank metric that gauges poverty “based on the […]
