BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil
According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a […]
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 […]
Obama: Human Rights In The AM, State Secrets & FBI Raids In The PM
During the Vietnam war, the saying which illustrated the best the schizophrenic aspect of the US involvement there was “Candy in the morning, napalm in the afternoon”. Decades later, the US administration is still displaying the very same sign of this disturbing behavior where one hand takes away what the other hand has given. The […]
US Census Report: In 2009, 43.6 Million People Lived In Poverty
Today, the US Census Bureau released its 2009 report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States. The data compiled for the report were collected by the Census Bureau in 2010, and the findings reflect the full negative social impact of the recession on the poor and the middle-class. The 88 pages […]
