Category: Politics
Are Mexico’s Armed Civilians ‘Vigilantes’?
by Pablo Piccato | Jan 23, 2014 | PoliticsSelf-defense groups have emerged throughout Mexico in recent years. In the last week, they acquired a prominent role in the south of the state of Michoacán, where they have fought drug-trafficking gunmen out of towns in which they used to rule unobstructed by the police, extracting a heavy toll from local populations. The image of […]
Where Are the Jobs and Freedom?
by Bob Lord | Jan 23, 2014 | PoliticsMartin Luther King Jr. dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Yet here’s the grim reality facing black America today: The net worth of just 400 billionaires, a group that could […]
Fast-Tracking Misery
by Ron Carver | Jan 22, 2014 | EconomyWhen it comes to trade policy, President Barack Obama is mimicking the same policies he criticized when he served in the Senate. As a presidential candidate, Obama promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recognizing the enormous loss of domestic jobs caused by its passage 20 years ago. He sure hasn’t done […]
The State of Our Union’s Inequality
by Sarah Anderson | Jan 22, 2014 | Politics(Source: White House) There’s no doubt that President Barack Obama will make inequality a major theme of his State of the Union address, just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in 1935. “We have not weeded out the overprivileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged,” FDR lamented. “Both of these manifestations of injustice […]
What’s Crippling the Recovery?
by Polly Cleveland | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy(Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen | Source: Reuters) Under incoming Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, the United States Federal Reserve Bank will begin to “taper” its program of “Quantitative Easing” or “QE.” Under QE, the Fed every month buys billions of U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities from the big banks. QE keeps down longer-term […]
Bad Faith Documentary
