Religious: Senate Pass Transparency Legislation More than 80 national religious bodies and local churches, synagogues and Muslim groups sent a letter to the Senate urging passage of the ILLICIT CASH Act (S.2563) and the Corporate Transparency Act (S.1978)....
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:44PM
Will the Democratic Presidential Nomination Be Bought? Billionaires on a shopping spree...
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 11:33AM
No true justice for the poor The Justice system no longer serves to protect the poor but instead criminalized them for being poor....
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:16AM
American Visitors Killed New Zealand My buddy was killed in a tragic car crash while visiting New Zealand a while back. But, the authorities didn't even release his name! He was apparently one of more than 5,000 foreigners who have been killed in that country since 2000. The truth about the number of visitors killed in NZ, highlighted recently by the White Island volcano disaster, is very disturbing....
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:42AM
Nazi Trump Declares Judaism a Nationality, Just Like Hitler In an effort to shut down dissent on college campuses to Israel's policies, Nazi Trump plans to sign an executive order this week declaring Judaism a religion or nationality, the latter being subject to the Civil Rights Act. Hitler did the same. See
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-executive-order-anti-semitism-college_n_5df04c5ee4b0b75fb53426c3...
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:18PM
Poor Despite Work Vancouver B.C. has 26 community centers that give an identity to working and nonworking persons. Three hours of free computer use, libraries, game rooms, gyms, theaters and casserole dinners for $4 are among the many amenities. The economy should be part of a greater whole or oikos that doesn't crush self-determination and creativity....
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:46AM
The politics of Hollywood & the Trump impeachment parties As the impeachment of Donald J. Trump in the House of Representatives excites people across the nation and inspires people to party down with some impeachment parties in celebration, it appears that the GOP and the Republican Party has gone totally insane with their lies and feeble attempts to defend Trump from himself!...
Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:05AM
Kerry’s Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War Character and Experience... in Mass Slaughter...
Posted: Sat Dec 7, 2019 8:29AM
Make Social Democracy Great Again Erik Olin Wright spoke of smashing, taming, escaping and eroding capitalism as alternatives of a transformational left. We must resist the "selective perception" of the elite that ignores market distortions (tax havens, stock buybacks, micro-second trading, insider trading), market failures, political failures, and the attacks on the poor, seniors, disabled, children and students....
Posted: Sat Dec 7, 2019 6:34AM
Laughing Trump Out of Office Finally, someone put their finger on the one issue that will certainly drive Trump from office: His five-year-old mentality that makes him unfit to hold any office. The ad that raises this issue is at https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/a-president-the-world-is-laughing-at-biden-releases-new-ad-attacking-trump-and-its-getting-widely-praised/...
Posted: Fri Dec 6, 2019 7:35AM
Grace Blakeley: The World Must be Saved from Financialization Even when times are good, the many have been largely excluded from the success enjoyed by the few. Where many see a strong economy today, Grace Blakeley sees not only the early indicators of an inevitable recession, but the "death throes" of an entire economic model that is crumbling before our eyes. She warns of a bleak future but also offers a hopeful alternative vision....
Posted: Fri Dec 6, 2019 6:19AM
Homelessness policy shift from Housing First to criminalization of the unhoused Everyone knows that the Housing First policies work, and that the unhoused (homeless) need a place to call home. However, with Matthew Doherty, the Executive Director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) being forced out, and Dr. Robert G. Marbut Jr. replacing him by the Trump Regime, there appears to be a major shift taking place in national Federal government policies to criminalize and punish the unhoused (homeless)!!!...
Posted: Thu Dec 5, 2019 11:25PM
Rule changes to SNAP Program will take food away from the poor & elderly In California the SNAP Program (food stamp program) is known as CalFresh, with 3,912,714 food stamp recipients in California during July 2018, including 100,430 food stamp recipients in Alameda County during 2018 according to Kidsdata.org....
Posted: Tue Dec 3, 2019 8:46PM
Recidivism Linked to Criminal Justice System Failures This is an article touching on the recidivism rates in the United States....
Posted: Tue Dec 3, 2019 7:17PM
For Corporate Media, It’s ‘Anybody But Sanders or Warren’ Journalism that can't stand progressive populism...
Posted: Mon Dec 2, 2019 8:59AM
Winter 2019 National Immigrant Solidarity Network News Alert! 2019 Year Ends: US Detains Record Number of Child Migrants, Surpassing Crisis Under Obama...
Posted: Sun Dec 1, 2019 2:56PM
Millstone and Me 2020 A San Francisco independent journalist reflects on the two decades anniversary of his book Millstone and Me: Sex, Lies and Eadiation in Southeastern Connecticut....
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 4:01PM
The Exodus from the Mega-Machine His book "The End of the Mega-Machine. History of a Failed Civilization" explores the origins of economic power. For 40 years, the global economy has headed into a structural crisis. This crisis is hidden by growing indebtedness and offers fewer and fewer persons a secure livelihood. Another type of economics could be obliged to the public interest and not to profit....
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:09PM
20th anniversary of Indymedia / Seattle 1999 WTO protests Curriculum to commemorate and share the history and inspiration of the Independent Media Center network...
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:44PM
Good Housing for All and Rent Madness Apartment rents have increased faster than the increased income of wage-earners. Real estate decays to an object of speculation. Capital seeks lucrative investments. Hectic activity and bustle replaces inactivity and idleness since the protests of renters cannot be ignored any more....
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:19PM