January 15, 2014
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Black Agenda Report for January 15, 2014: Moral Monday Branding / Obama-Paul Scam Zones / COINTELPRO Busted
15 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report Moral Monday A Branding Exercise Blaming Republicans for Stuff Democrats Helped Them Do by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is Moral Monday “sweeping the nation”? Is it the beginning of a new movement, or the revival of an old one? Or is it a sad, cynical and Continue reading
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Video: Corporate Deregulation To Blame for Toxic Spill in West Virginia
A toxic spill in West Virginia’s Elk River has left 300,000 local residents without water for the past week. The leak came from a storage facility for chemicals used to process coal, and it’s left many wondering if industry regulations are too lax, especially for the company responsible for the leak, Freedom Industries. Continue reading
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The West Virginia chemical disaster By Andre Damon
The release of a toxic coal-treatment chemical into the drinking water of nine counties in West Virginia, shutting off water supplies for over three hundred thousand people for five days, is the latest in a string of industrial disasters resulting from the systematic gutting of corporate regulations in the United States. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 January 2014: Her Heart has Already Burned
14 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterQatar To Grant Work Visas To 20,000 PalestiniansIMEMC – Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Ibn Hamad Al Thani has given orders to grant work visas to 20,000 Palestinians, the Palestinian ambassador to Qatar told Ma’an News Agency, on Monday. … Continue reading
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Hunt seeks the right to close hospitals without consulting patients By Charles West
15 January 2014 — Our NHS Jeremy Hunt is about to render Clinical Commissioning Groups impotent and unable to serve their patients needs. In the law of the jungle we see nature red in tooth and claw. Dog eats dog, might is right, competition is king and the playground bully rules the roost. Continue reading
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Managing democracy, managing dissent By Mike Schwartz
By the end of an unexpectedly swift and stimulating read, I had the answer. Next time I attend the G8 or Guardian editorial meeting, Bullingdon club or Bilderberg conference, company AGM or cabinet meeting, I’ll have this in my back pocket. Or, better still, I’ll beat other participants around the head (figuratively, of course) with… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 