IMF and World Bank Meet on 10-Year Anniversary of Financial Crisis World leaders, finance ministers, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations begin the Spring International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings on the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:17PM
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion The market accepts and rejects like a Calvinist God. The market only promises itself. Its highest goal is the economic boom. The Christian God's reign was not of this world. In contrast, the market theocracy makes this side into something otherworldly. The cult of money and the comodity eclipses the outlandishness and absurdity of all its predecessors....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:11AM
Discrimination of Persons With Disabilities Individuals are discriminated every day due to their disability. End this now, it's simple....
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:02PM
IMF World Economic Outlook Report Raises Concerns for Long-Term Growth The International Monetary Fund releases its World Economic Outlook (WEO) Report, forecasting global growth in the short-term and raising concerns on possible economic downturns beyond the next few quarters....
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:27AM
Book Review: "The New Bonapartists" In the figure of Bonaparte, the state made itself independent over society at a time when the bourgeoisie lost the capacity to rule the nation and the working class had not yet gained that ability. Aren't conditions similar nowadays in the many de-industrialized regions of the US, England, Germany or Poland? The whole world cheered him as the deliverer of society, Marx wrote....
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:40AM
Precedent Setting Decision: Endangered Species Act Protects Captive Animals ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2018 – Today the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation’s preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, scored a major victory for endangered animals living in captivity. A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit issued a unanimous decision upholding a district court’s 2016 ruling that Cricket Hollow Animal Park (formerly Cricket Hollow Zoo), a roadside zoo in Manchester, Iowa, violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by providing substandard care for the four tiger...
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:08PM
The World Dependent on Central Banks The situation seems contradictory. We live in an exceptional situation that the world has not seen before. The global economic and financial system has been clinically dead since 2008. It only functions because it is artificially kept alive by the central banks like a patient in the intensifve care unit. $18 trillion was pumped into the global system....
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:39AM
Prohibiting Micro-Second Betting on the Exchanges The financial sector that has gone off course should serve the real economy again in the future. The exchange functions like a gigantic casino with the difference that a casino is more transparent and is easier to understand. Throwing some sand in the gears with a transactions tax would slow down the speculation. Only opening the exchanges two days a week would be better....
Posted: Mon Apr 9, 2018 4:14AM
Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence...Cuba NO....Cambridge SI! Rather than it's planned Cuban venture, Black Portraiture(S) IV found itself back home in Cambridge, MA...
Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2018 11:50AM
Dismantling Toxic Masculinity: What We Must Do We need to dismantle toxic masculinity and build a generation of men who aren’t afraid to openly discuss their emotions....
Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2018 11:56AM
Supreme Court shields a police officer from being sued for shooting a woman in front yard The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a police officer from being sued for shooting an Arizona woman in her front yard, once again making it harder to bring legal action against officers who use excessive force, even against an innocent person....
Posted: Wed Apr 4, 2018 6:49PM
NAACP Condemns Latest Injustices Surrounding Fatal Police-Involved Shootings around Nation BALTIMORE, MD (April 2, 2018) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, issued the following statement following the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark by a Sacramento police officer and the acquittal of the officers involved in the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge in 2016....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 11:05PM
Sacramento, California will A.C.T. to End Racism Sacramento, California has a very unique opportunity to A.C.T.to End Racism this 170th Anniversary of the California Gold Rush...
Posted: Sun Apr 1, 2018 12:13PM
As Trump consolidates his power, the history of 1930s Germany repeats itself As Adolf Hitler rose to power, principled conservatives in Germany convinced themselves that he could be controlled.
Compromises, concessions, and countermeasures are necessary for America after the budget attacks on the poor, seniors, the disabled, students, and children....
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 12:41PM
Puerto Rico Governor and Oversight Board Spar on Fiscal Plan The certification of a plan to get Puerto Rico out of debt and back to economic growth was delayed again this week....
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:38AM
As Trump consolidates his power, the history of 1930s Germany repeats itself As Adolf Hitler rose to power, principled conservatives in Germany convinced themselves that he could be controlled.
Compromises, concessions, and countermeasures are necessary in America after the budget attacks on the poor, seniors, the disabled, chidren, and students....
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:03AM
New ACLU Charges Allege Pregnancy Discrimination Against Dockworkers at West Coast Ports Policies Block Women from Higher Wages and Union Membership...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:54AM
How Dentists Manipulate Legislators to Get Fluoridation Mandates Passed Adding unnecessary fluoride chemicals into public water supplies is harmful to health. Politics, not science, keeps it going. Profiteers include legislators, corporations, organized dentistry and others - not those forced to drink fluoride-laced tap water and eat and drink restaurant and supermarket foods & beverages made with fluoridated water without their knowledge of fluoride content. Yet, there's no dispute that a little too much fluoride damages bones and children's teeth....
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:14AM
Please debunk this alleged evidence-based chemtrail website "Lab Tests and Health effects" is the title of a webpage allegedly backing up claims that "chemtrails" are for real. Topics covered, include: Shocking Phoenix Air Quality Test Results, Chronic barium intoxication disrupts sulphated proteoglycan synthesis, Lab results from snow and rain water samples that were taken during very high Chemtrail activity in North Carolina; and much more....
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:22PM
ICE Trained Surreptitiously at Urban Shield - In Our Sanctuary County. The revelation of secretive HSI/ICE participation (ICE was not listed on the Urban Shield website as a participating agency) follows a series of disturbing incidents at the event, including the presence of the Oath Keepers vigilante extremism group in an Urban Shield-branded community fair giving out literature to the public in an Alameda County Sheriff's Department pavillion, the use of vendor Strategic Operations in secret after the Alameda Board of Supervisors vetoed the vendor due to blat...
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:26PM