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Nexus X HumectressThe Deal With Iran
The American Conservative EEAS / Flickr Uri Friedman describes the details of the interim nuclear deal with Iran: The details are still coming into focus, but here are the basics: Iran will stop enriching uranium beyond the 5-percent level (nuclear power plants typically run on 3.5 percent-enriched uranium), […]
Woman may lose house for sex while she was a high school student 12 years ago
Boingboing.Com Twelve years ago, when Wendy Whitaker was barely 17, she performed oral sex on a high school classmate who was about to turn 16. The state of Georgia convicted her of a sex crime and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As a registered sex […]
Federal government books $41.3 billion in profits on student loans
Detroit Free Press The federal government made enough money on student loans over the last year that, if it wanted, it could provide maximum-level Pell Grants of $5,645 to 7.3 million college students. The $41.3-billion profit for the 2013 fiscal year is down $3.6 billion from the previous […]
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
ThinkbyNumbers.Com About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006. Before we look at the details, a heartfelt plea from […]
Slavery case: two arrested ran a revolutionary Communist collective
The Telegraph Police in Peckford Place, Stockwell, where the women were held captive Photo: JANE MINGAY FOR THE TELEGRAPH By Martin Evans, and Sam Marsden The two suspects in the south London slavery case ran a Communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped the Chinese leader Chairman Mao, the […]
Muhammed Ali: Enemy of the System
“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I […]
Counties That Send The Most People To Death Row Show A Questionable Commitment To Justice
Huffington Post An unidentified Arizona Corrections Officer adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Florence Death House at the Arizona State Prison at Florence (Ariz.) in this undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, a federal […]
The FDA Wants to Ban Berger Cookies, the World’s Most Delicious Dessert
Reason.Com The FDA may soon kill off the world’s most delicious dessert—Baltimore’s own Berger Cookies. Please believe I make this claim as one who is not otherwise overly enamored of sweets. For those who haven’t had the pleasure, we’re talking fudge slathered over a shortbread cookie to rapturous […]
Machiavelli Was Right
The Atlantic Paul Windle You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed from the compound in Pakistan where the killing of Osama bin Laden is […]
Teen Accused of Made-Up Crime Jailed on Rikers for Three Years
Gawker.Com 1Expand Kalief Browder was just 16-year-old when police officers suddenly showed up and arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island. Now 20, Browder still had no idea why a person he had never met before decided to […]
Jesse Ventura: Every baby born in US already $50,000 in debt
Russia Today A man of many titles, Jesse Ventura is a politician, actor, author, US navy veteran and a former professional wrestler. He does not associate himself with either side of the political establishment. Jesse Ventura won the seat of 38th Governor of Minnesota as an independent candidate. […]
Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution
Another moralistic fad goes bust. The Guardian Sex worker in Soho, London. Photograph: Dan Chung The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 14 November 2009 In the report below about sex trafficking we referred to the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre as […]
California town bans smoking in homes
Russia Today Reuters / Rafael Marchante While restrictions on smoking in public are becoming stricter across the country, one California town has taken things a step further and banned smoking in all homes that share walls with other residences. The new city ordinance in San Rafael, California prohibits […]
‘Get out! Get out!’: Thai protesters demand ‘people’s revolution’
Russia Today Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangkok on Monday as peaceful protests from the previous day escalated into the occupation of key government buildings. While initially spurred by a controversial amnesty law scuttled by parliament last month, protesters have become emboldened, and […]
Afghanistan considers reintroduction of public stoning for adulterers
The Guardian Hamid Karzai has been urged to ‘demonstrate a commitment to human rights and reject this proposal out of hand’. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghan government officials have proposed reintroducing public stoning as a punishment for adultery, Human Rights Watch said, even though the practice has been denounced […]
The Shantytowns Of Silicon Valley
The American Conservative is now the most left-wing of any mainstream or semi-mainstream publication in the United States. The American Conservative Charlotte Allen has a dynamite piece in The Weekly Standard, taking a tour of Silicon Valley and observing the stark wealth and class divide there — a […]
When North American Leftists Were Real Revolutionaries
Short of Actually Scary People, SPLC Targets Anarcho-Capitalists
Reason.Com I have to assume that it’s fundraising time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Morris Dees and company have gone looking for new people to label enemies of the republic. This time, they’ve found those long underappreciated serpents nesting in our midst, notorious fellow-travelers of the […]
Robert Stark Interviews Keith Preston on the Declining Middle Class & the Rise of Populism
Listen to the interview. Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston of Attack the System on the decline of the American middle class and the prospects for radical populism. Topics include: Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Neo-liberalism Left-wing oligarchy The Tea Party Cracks in the Left […]
Status of the Resistance Movement: Growing, Deepening, Succeeding
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers A protester during Occupy Oakland’s “Move In Day” aimed at reclaiming a vacant building, January 28, 2012. (Photo: Glenn Halog / Flickr)
Surviving the Economic Collapse
The Daily Bell Introduction: Ron Holland is a contributing editor to several newsletters dealing with political and investing topics and author of several books, including Escape the Pension Trap. Originally from North Carolina, Ron lived in Geneva from 2003 to 2004 and divided his time between the US and Europe until […]
Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century
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Tearful Toronto mayor admits crack use, won’t step down
CBS News TORONTO Rob Ford said Tuesday he loves his job and will stay on as mayor of Toronto despite admitting for the first time that he smoked crack. Ford earlier acknowledged he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor,” but balked […]
Nepali Maoist leader adopts millionaire’s lifestyle
The Telegraph The leader of Nepal’s ruling Maoists, who led the country’s downtrodden masses in the guerrilla war which eventually overthrew its monarchy, has provoked a row among his comrades after acquiring a luxury mansion with a swimming pool and badminton court. Unified Communist Party of Nepal Chairman […]
Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America’s war on drugs
The Guardian The US war on drugs has cost one trillion dollars and resulted in 45m arrests. And yet nothing has changed, argues film-maker Eugene Jarecki, a polemical campaigner to reform America’s drugs laws. So what did the prisoners in a New York jail think when he showed […]
Don’t Appear to Be Clenching Your Buttocks When Pulled Over For Not Coming to a Complete Stop or Be Tortured by Doctors: America, This is Your War on Drugs
Reason.Com From the “folks, this is just wrong” department of our War on Drugs, reported by KOB-TV 4 in New Mexico. They are reporting on a lawsuit that arose from an: incident [that] began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According […]
How the GOP Establishment Tea-Partied the Tea Party
The Atlantic After years of trying to accommodate conservatives, mainstream Republicans finally went to war on Tuesday—and won. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters On Tuesday, Republican Ken Cuccinelli lost the Virginia governor’s race by less than 3 percentage points—a far smaller margin than the polls had led people to expect. The […]
Cop Shoots Man Holding Cellphone, Receives Silver Valor Award
The Libertarian Republic RICHMOND, VA – Henrico County Police Officer Brian K. Anderson was awarded with the Silver Valor Medal on Friday. He said he was concerned about his safety and the safety of his colleagues when he shot a suspect carrying a cell phone. “I believed it was […]
Tragic End To Father’s Attempt To Teach Son A Lesson
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Once Again—Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges Alexis Gravel (CC-BY-ND) By Chris Hedges The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exists not to make possible incremental or piecemeal reform, as it originally […]
The anti-Southern vote in Virginia
Southern Nationalist Network Ken Cuccinelli won the vast majority of Virginia but lost Black urban centres, the DC suburbs and areas with large numbers of immigrants A recent article in The Washington Post by Luz Lazo and Debbi Wilgorn makes the point that Third World immigrants in Virginia […]
Fla. teacher suspended for forcing 4th-grader to participate in Pledge of Allegiance
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Portland, Maine Legalizes Recreational Use of Marijuana
The Liberty Beat On Tuesday citizens of Portland, Maine voted to legalize possession of less than 2.5 ounces of marijuana for adults 21 and over. Although the measure begins in 30 days there is not a system in place for citizens to legally acquire the plant. After the […]
Philly elects first Whig in 157 years
Philly.Com Though voter turnout in Tuesday’s municipal election was low and the Democratic party took most of the races in the traditionally liberal stronghold, at least one ticket saw a notable outcome.
Man Arrested For Smoking Weed Dies From Extreme Food Allergy In Jail
EliteDaily.Com A 22-year-old kid from Washington who was locked up for smoking weed died in his jail cell after guards ignored his food allergies. According to the New York Daily News, Michael Saffioti pleaded for help from his cell at Snohomish County Jail after eating oatmeal that triggered his […]
US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11
MintPressNews.Com Statistically speaking, Americans should be more fearful of the local cops than “terrorists.” By Katie Rucke | November 6, 2013 Members of a police anti-terrorism team exercise on Thursday, March 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Though Americans commonly believe law enforcement’s role in society is to protect […]
Who Are These Losers?
American Renaissance The origins of Anti-Racist Action. Many readers of American Renaissance are aware of “anti-racist” activist networks, but very little has been written about them. These networks are the most militant proponents of political correctness and are ideologically very much with the grain of mainstream social trends. […]
The Secret History of Guns
The Atlantic The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black […]
Police Officer’s Final Act of Kindness Caught on Tape Before Dying
This is truly heartwrenching, but it’s also inspirational. We can all ask ourselves, how will the rest of the world talk about us when we’re gone? In the case of this police officer, he will never be forgotten. Watch the Video.
Hamburger Chef Jamie Oliver Proves McDonald’s Burgers “Unfit for Human Consumption”
GetHolisticHealth.Com Hamburger chef Jamie Oliver has won his long-fought battle against one of the largest fast food chains in the world – McDonalds. After Oliver showed how McDonald’s hamburgers are made, the franchise finally announced that it will change its recipe, and yet there was barely a peep […]
US conservatism as a Leftist movement
Southern Nationalist Network Ronald Reagan signed MLK Jr Day into law Polling data over the years point to self-identified conservatives as the largest ideological group in the United States. Gallup has found that about 40% of the public identifies as conservative, 35% as moderate and 20% as liberal. […]
Here’s What Female Porn Stars Get Paid For Different Types Of Scenes
Business Insider Most people have heard the name Ari Emanuel — the WME super agent who inspired Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold character on HBO’s hit show, “Entourage.” The name Mark Spiegler, a top talent agent in a different billion dollar entertainment industry, may not ring as many bells. […]
Blessed are the poor?
The Madness of Law Enforcement’s Escalating Brutality
Reason.Com Law enforcement excesses grab an ever-growing share of headlines. Doors kicked in, people killed, dogs shot, phone lines tapped, curfews imposed—they’re all examples of official overreaching at that unpleasant intersection of private activity and state disapproval. For some people, the implication of such abuses is that more […]
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Family of woman shot by officer wants answers
Kob.Com SANTA FE — KOB Eyewitness News 4 was there Thursday morning as the family of Jeanette Anaya rushed to the scene, begging state police for answers about her death. Anaya’s sister and niece said she would have never led police on a chase and they don’t know […]
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