Corporate Con Job: How Mainstream Media Is Aiding the Oligarchy Jordan Chariton Self published book by investigative reporter Jordan Chariton, The Young Turks & Truth Against The Machine, describing his experiences covering the Bernie Sanders movement and corporate media silencing that movement. Also discussing what covering Trump was really like,… Continue reading
SUSIE NEILSON March 4, 2022 Updated: March 5, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has sent a greater percentage of defendants in robbery, assault and drug cases to diversion programs than his predecessor, while obtaining convictions in a smaller share of those cases, according to data released by… Continue reading
Justin Phillips March 6, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) After nearly two hours of fiery public debate on Feb. 24, California’s reparations task force could have made a seminal decision on who gets reparations — all Black people or just the ones who can trace their ancestry to slaves in the U.S. Instead,… Continue reading
House Joint Resolution 48 introduced May 20, 2021Click here for most up to date list of co-sponsors (Mouse over the links below for background information and explanation for why we have chosen these particular terms or language) Section 1. [Artificial Entities Such as Corporations Do Not Have Constitutional Rights] The rights… Continue reading
Zoe Williams The Russian artist – who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin ‘punk prayer’ – is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you sane @zoesqwilliamsTue 8 Mar 2022… Continue reading
BBC News Sep 26, 2014 George Galloway told a former member of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s cabinets she killed one million people in Iraq. The former Labour MP, now a Respect MP, turned on Jacqui Smith as they looked ahead to Friday’s vote in Parliament on possible UK military… Continue reading
By Ross PomeroyJune 29, 2015 (realclearscience.com) The world runs on oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, in 2011, the 6.965 billion people on Earth collectively used about 3,669,353,105 gallons of the stuff, combusting it in cars as gasoline, laying it down in asphalt, and processing it into lubricants…. Continue reading
by Steve Early on March 7, 2022 (beyondchron.org) The best documentary photography has long been packaged and showcased, along with its fine art cousin, in so-called “coffee table” books. But Robert Gumpert’s Division Street (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2022) may be a hard sell as a glossy addition to the living room furniture of affluent San… Continue reading
Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED March 8, 2022 (federalnewsnetwork.com) A long-awaited reform bill expected to save the Postal Service a total of $107 billion is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk. The Senate on Tuesday passed the Postal Service Reform Act, which would, among other things, eliminate a 2006 mandate from Congress to… Continue reading
Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think Ralph Nader “Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essential reading. Written just before Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, Nader’s latest… Continue reading
