20 August 2016 — TRNN
Aegean University Professor Stratos Georgoulas: Refugees in Greece are often forced to choose between imprisonment in camps or deportation to Turkey Continue reading
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Sign the petition – Blair must be held to account
20 August 2016
Well, clearly not that many people feel it’s important enough to haul the sociopath and war criminal Tony Blair into court for his crimes against humanity, as almost a month later and the count is now only around 16,800 people. A depressing reflection on our times don’t you think?
A new petition has been launched to bolster the campaign to hold Tony Blair to account by obtaining a House of Commons’ vote holding him in contempt of Parliament. Get 10,000 then Parliament has to respond (no response so far). Get 100,000 signatures and they have to debate it in Parliament.
Video: Who said it, Trump or Clinton? Democrats Can’t Decide By Rania Khalek
20 August 2016 — TRNN
Got nothing else to do for five minutes? Check out this witty (but utterly depressing) video of Khalek interviewing Democratic Party members at their convention on who said what? The term ‘lesser of two evils’ was always stupid but now it’s totally meaningless. Continue reading
‘They Are Incentivized to Arrest People Because It Raises Money’
20 August 2016 — FAIR
Janine Jackson interviewed Donna Murch about for-profit punishment for the August 12, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Donna Murch: “Nearly everyone who’s being arrested or incarcerated is incurring criminal justice debt. And in many states you can be stripped of your right to vote until you pay off all of your criminal justice debt. So I talk about that essentially as a modern day poll tax.” (image: Muhlenberg College)
Felicia Kornbluh on the Politics of Welfare
19 August 2016 — FAIR
(image: Matt Wuerker)
This week on CounterSpin: It was 20 years ago this month that Bill Clinton eliminated the federal guarantee of assistance to poor families. Corporate media played a key role in persuading the public that Aid to Families with Dependent Children—representing less than 1-and-a-half percent of federal outlay from 1964 to 1994—was somehow bleeding the country dry.
Now we’re told we’re in a moment of reconsideration—of tough-on-crime policies, of the deregulation of banks and, perhaps, of the notion that depriving needy people of assistance would lead to their gainful employment and well-being. Our guest says a true reconsideration of the 1990s welfare overhaul would require a so-far invisible recentering of the people in its crosshairs: low-income women, particularly mothers raising children on their own. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 