Mass Poverty and Social Inequality: India’s “Independence” for Whom and From What?
By Colin Todhunter | July 30, 2013
Supremacism, Social Darwinism
UK Serious Crimes Agency buried evidence of massive criminality by major corporations, rich people — wouldn’t even tell the cops
By Cory Doctorow | boingboing | July 25, 2013
Back in June, the Independent broke a huge story about a scandal whereby the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency sat on evidence of widespread use of phone-hacking and other dirty tricks by rich people, top-flight law-firms, telecoms companies and blue-chip firms.
Detroit Bankruptcy Takes Aim at Pensions
By Jane Slaughter | Labor Notes | July 19, 2013
Detroit hit the Trifecta last week—the third in a series of body blows that politicians have landed on the city’s working people.
And Now They Want The Temple Rebuilt
By Gilad Atzmon | July 12, 2013
Haaretz reported today that one third of Israeli Jews want the Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem.
Evo Morales: No Need for US Embassy in Bolivia
Al-Manar | July 5, 2013
Bolivia’s president threatened Thursday to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted over suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard.