We’re All in this Together
By Will Shonbrun
Maybe it comes down to something as simple as those that care and those that don’t: those who care what happens to their fellow man/woman and those who basically don’t give a damn. It sure looks that way in these political/social/cultural times, and perhaps it was always thus.
Given [...]

New Research on State Crimes Against Democracy
By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff

New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage [...]

by Mitchel Cohen
Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. First it went to [...]

The following analysis traces the long history of imperial domination and exploitation of Haiti by the United States. The US Corporate media covers the “humanitarian’ message of US military control and fails to include the historical context of over 100 years of imperialism.
Haiti’s tragedy: A crime of US imperialism
By Bill Van Auken,
The immense death and [...]

42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama’s Broken Promises on Guantanamo, America’s Broken Laws, and the Breaking of Lives by Torture
Washington, DC: In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. Most of the arrestees had been fasting since January 11th.
The [...]

Supreme Court Empowers the Transnational Corporate Class to Buy US Congress Through Domestic Corporations.
Manchurian Candidates:
Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections
By Greg Palast | Updated from the original report for AlterNet
Thursday, January 21, 2010
In today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that [...]

U.S.:
Anti-Arpaio March Reignites Pro-Immigrant Movement
Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan 17 (IPS) – Over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix Saturday in the first mass mobilisation of the year, calling for an end to the criminalisation of undocumented immigrants and the passage of immigration reform legislation.
Arizona is considered ground zero for the immigration debate due [...]

The World Socialist Website has a full report on the exploitive abuses of African farm laborers in Italy. Like many countries in the world the wages for the hardest jobs are so low that immigrants—with or without official legal residency status— are used to harvest crops. When workers push for better wages and conditions the [...]

The following is an outstanding review of the current economic conditions in the US from the World Socialist Web Site. The information is accurate and disturbing.  Peter Phillips

New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
By Tom Eley
5 January 2010
The new decade finds the US working class suffering a level of social misery not seen [...]

PU L S E has just released their list of the top Global Media Figures of 2009. Include in the list is Nora Barrows-Friedman and Dennis Bernstein from Flashpoints Radio at KPFA in Berkeley. Flashpoints has recently been under threat by management at KPFA loosing over 50% of its funding in the past three years.
“Freedom [...]