0

Acronym TV: Bill Maher Pushing a Separate But Equal Doctrine On Muslims

Acronym TV: Bill Maher Pushing a Separate But Equal Doctrine On Muslims
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com

Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.

Facing national outrage, the 32-year-old CEO backed down from the 5000% price increase his company announced this week for the malaria and toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim, sparking an overdue debate about the outlandish cost of life-saving medicines.

Indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when Congress repealed legislation protecting Monsanto's GMO plant varieties in the Central American country.

The inequality goal allows current trends of income concentration to increase until 2029 before they start to decline – and totally ignores the structure of an economic system that creates inequality.

Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.

4 days 9 hours ago

From movements in Bolivia and Uruguay to voter rebellions in Nigeria, Holland, Italy, France and Ireland, citizens worldwide are demanding the return of their water to public hands.

3 days 7 hours ago

New data shows that more than a quarter of the nation’s 60 richest universities leave their low-income students owing an average of more than $20,000 in federal loans.

3 days 6 hours ago

Financial fees are sucking cities and states dry – but they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively over interest rates and other financial deals peddled to them by Wall Street.

2 days 6 hours ago

Clad in yellow shirts, hundreds of people streamed across the Arlington Memorial Bridge on September 15 and ended their nearly 1,000-mile trip at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

4 days 8 hours ago

Robert Califf has deeper ties to the pharmaceutical industry than any F.D.A. commissioner in recent memory.

A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.

"This case is not just about me – it's about how much control we allow U.S. corporations and the U.S. government to have over the Internet."

This week, Chris Hedges offers up some historical rebellion so we understand where we came from and where we're headed.

-- Delivered by Feed43 service

Post a Comment

 
Top