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American Progress Action Fund: The Real Ingredients in Class Warfare 2012-01-26 Mitt Romney’s Tax and Budget Plans Assault Low- and Moderate-Income Families, Especially People of Color
A T Register: The military scandal you haven't heard about 2012-01-26 But another video that surfaced recently also merits outrage and action: It shows a soldier viciously beating a sheep with a baseball bat while other soldiers laugh and cheer.
Truthdig: Obama's Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims 2012-01-26 In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008.
BusinessWeek: Obama Calls for Wealthy to Pay More Taxes to Restore Fairness 2012-01-25 President Barack Obama, offering an election-year prescription to spur the economy, said the wealthiest Americans should pay more taxes in the name of fairness, to bring down the deficit and ensure those trying to make ends meet don't have to make up the difference.
New York Times: Egyptians Mass on First Anniversary of Revolt 2012-01-25 CAIRO — Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square, the crucible of their revolution, on Wednesday in a mixture of celebration and agitation to mark the first anniversary of the protests that forced out Hosni Mubarak, the former president.
newyorker.com: 'The New Yorker' : Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America 2012-01-24 Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin's gulags.
New York Times: The Wealthy and Class War 2012-01-23 15)The wealthy are continuing to win class warfare in the United States. Why would they want to talk about income disparity? Their income is fueled by lower salaries and poor access to health care, food, housing and other necessities. Class warfare?
Eurasia Review: Occupy Nigeria 2012-01-23 Nigerians responded swiftly to the announcement. Demonstrations, protests, and violent clashes broke out, followed by a nationwide strike inaugurated on January 8. The strikes were set to go into a second week when they were called off after the president announced an immediate 30-percent drop in gas prices.
Washington Post: Human Rights Watch details Iraq crackdowns, warns of 'budding police state' 2012-01-22 Iraq "cracked down harshly" on freedom of expression and assembly in 2011 by intimidating, beating and detaining activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said Sunday in announcing its World Report 2012. | "Iraq is quickly slipping back into authoritarianism as its security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists and torture detainees," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
CNN International: 'Occupy' moves to the Supreme Court 2012-01-20 The event is being held around the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which removed many limits to corporate spending in federal political campaigns, organizers say.
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Washington Post: She The People 2012-01-26 In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Obama said, "We don't begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it. When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes , it's not because they envy the rich.
Los Angeles Times: Obama's attack on Chinese trade practices mostly ignored in China 2012-01-25 President Obama fired a shot across the bow at Beijing during his State of the Union address Tuesday by pledging to lure offshore jobs back to the U.S. and take unfair Chinese trade practices to task with a special enforcement unit. | The response in China, however, was muted at best – perhaps drowned-out by the barrage of fireworks across the country as it continues to celebrate its week-long Spring Festival national holiday.
Antiwar.com: All That Is Necessary for Evil to Triumph 2012-01-23 Obama has bombed Pakistanis and Yemenis, escalated the war in Afghanistan, engaged the U.S. military in Libya, even without congressional approval, and worsened the situation with Iran — misinforming the world that Iranians are working on a secret nuclear program, despite knowing Iran had already reported the program to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
AFP: Year of the Dragon roars into Asia 2012-01-23 From Malaysia to South Korea, millions of people travelled huge distances to reunite with their families for Lunar New Year -- the most important holiday of the year for many in Asia -- indulging in feasts or watching dragon dances.
Embassy: Guantanamo Bay 10 years on: Human rights gone wrong 2012-01-20 Embassy -: Last week marked an ignominious anniversary—ten years of injustice at Guantanamo Bay. It defies belief, but one decade on, that global icon of human rights gone so terribly wrong in the 'war on terror' is still in business. | The first prisoners began to arrive on Jan. 11, 2002. At least 12 of that original group remain there today. Since that time, 779 prisoners have been held at Guantanamo.
WA today: Facing up to tyranny: how a girl and her blog helped change the world 2012-01-20 The blogger and human rights activist known as the Tunisian Girl cuts a diminutive figure amid the chaos of demonstrations outside parliament in Tunis. Her two minders - one I later discover is her boyfriend - tower over her, tall, elegant and intense. | A soundtrack of Middle Eastern music keeps the beat in the background as groups of mostly young men gather around tables to smoke and debate. The talk is all politics. |
