By JOSEPH MANGANO and JANETTE SHERMAN | CounterPunch | August 1, 2014 Over 3 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, there is virtually no health research being conducted or released on harm to the Japanese. An April report by a UN committee tried to sweep the issue under the rug, predicting any harmful effects of […]
There are quite a few of them but the ones progressives have a stake in, in chronological order, are Hawaii (August 9), Wisconsin (August 12), and then a late super-Tuesday on August 26 for Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma. That same day has primaries in Alaska, Missouri, Oregon and Vermont with interesting races but no races that pit a progressive against a shill from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.Up top is the brand new video from one of the most grassroots campaigns anywhere, the Tom Guild campaign for the open Oklahoma City congressional seat.
Yesterday we saw that may more Americans have been leaving the two corrupt Beltway political parties and re-registering as independents.
A series of photos have recently surfaced from Texas. They depict an array of Latin American youths crammed into Texas immigration holding tanks far too small to contain them all. The unaccompanied minors in question were intercepted in Texas after having crossed the Mexican-US border. The images show the unaccompanied minors standing like packed sardines, or stretched out across one another in their collective attempt to sleep. Immediately following the photo leak, immigration officials busied themselves with transporting hundreds of these minors across border states.
Scott Fistler (R-AZ) disguised as a Democrat and a LatinoYesterday and the day before we talked about Blue Dogs Gene Taylor (MS) and Janice Pauls (KS) making the natural transition from Blue Dog-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Part
Guillermo Jimenez Presents Todd Miller
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Todd Miller, a journalist and author of the new book Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. We discuss the emergence of the “border-industrial complex,” and how its political effects extend beyond the Southwestern United States and are now being felt across the country and around the world.
Ron Barber is both a New Dem and a Blue Dog-- very much a member in good standing of the Republican Wing of the Democratic Party. According to ProgressivePunch, Barber's crucial vote score for 2013-'14 is a horrific 25.0, a record that is far more in tune with the GOP, particularly on economic matters, than with the Democrats.
I can't say I know Kyrsten Sinema well, but I do know her. She briefly joined a board I serve on and she seemed like a normal, smart progressive at the few meetings she attended. Back in 2012, when I heard she was going to run for Congress in a newly created Maricopa County district (AZ-09) that encompasses much of Chandler and Mesa, a bit of Scottsdale, all of Tempe and some of the burbs north and east of Phoenix, I was very excited.
By Chloé Benoist | Al-Akhbar | March 5, 2014
An Israeli military contractor, whose surveillance technology is used along Israel’s apartheid wall constructed in the Palestinian West Bank, has been chosen by the United States to provide similar services on the southern border with Mexico, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
