Apple’s tax dodge: The case for public ownership
Guest Editorials— By Andre Damon, wsws.org The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report Monday showing that electronics giant Apple Inc. uses offshore tax shelters to avoid taxes on the majority of its income and cheated the US government out of $9 billion in 2012 alone. That same day, a tornado leveled the town [...]
By Chris Hedges Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.”We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion [...]
OpEds: The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon
By Pepe Escobar, RT.com Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it. Did you like this? Share [...]
Why Corporate Media Focuses on Benghazi Instead of Guatemalan Genocide
AlterNet [1] / By Sean McElwee [2] Last week two important stories about U.S. foreign policy broke. First, the White House released some 100 pages of e-mails confirming a dastardly scandal: rather than call the Benghazi attack a “terrorist act,” President Obama, in a Nixonian power grab, called it an, “act of terror.” Did you like this? Share it:
From Tbilisi to Worchester by CHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI (With report & VIDEO by PressTV, see addendum below) It was humanity at its best. Showing compassion for the quick and the dead. The quick made news in Tbilisi, Georgia. The dead made news in Worcester, Massachusetts. Did you like this? Share it:
The Strange Trial of Ríos Montt
Despite Annulment, Genocide Trial a Breakthrough for Justice and Truth by LUZ MENDEZ The sentence of 80 years in prison against former de facto president Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during Guatemala’s armed conflict, emitted on May 10, 2013, was annulled by the Constitutional Court ten days later. The court’s [...]
EDITORIAL SUGGESTION: BRIAN STETTEN
Ahhh!!!!!!! This is such evil astroturf!!! …Yes…yo yo sweatshops is good….this psychotic video promoting LearnLiberty.org is literally promoting offshore sweatshops that force other populations into wage slavery. I wonder how much this actor behind “jerrylittlemars2″ is getting paid to pretend to be a teenager that is so enthusiastic about extreme right wing libertarian ideology.
A dispatch by RT News
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of (L-R) Peru, Rafael Roncagliolo, Ecuador, Ricardo Patino, Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin, answer questions to the press after an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of UNASUR in Guayaquil, Ecuador on August 19, 2012 (AFP Photo / Rodrigo Buendia)
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has unanimously adopted a seven-point resolution supporting Ecuador’s right to grant Julian Assange asylum and condemning British threats to raid a sovereign state’s embassy in order to arrest him.
Foreign ministers of the 12-member bloc took part in an extraordinary meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city. A resolution was adopted just eight minutes after the session began, and was read out by Secretary General Ali Rodriguez. Rodriguez’ readout of the resolution was met with loud applause. Continue reading »
Don’t Vote, Don’t Fight … Go on Strike!
by LINH DINH
How does it go? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…I ain’t gonna get fooled again!
Here and now, voting is futile. Your vote doesn’t count, at least not for anything that you believe in and want done. Your vote is only an endorsement of an illegitimate system that persistently and viciously works against all of your interests.
This political machinery cannot serve you, since its funders, its masters, are the banks and corporations that demand the cheapest possible labor, and profits by any means necessary, with no regards for human rights, their host communities or the environment. With your negligible salary, unemployment checks, welfare or food stamps, you simply don’t count. You don’t matter. Just as you may find street beggars annoying, your government sees you only as a nuisance, to be tranquilized with lies on television. If it could, it would deport you wholesale to Chinese sweat shops, and trumpet it as “The Right to Work Overseas Act.” Continue reading »
By Chris Marsden
* This article co-written by Barry Grey
Assange has said, with every justification, that he fears for his life. Everyone but the willfully blind knows that Assange is the victim of a witch-hunt, yet this has not stopped the nominally liberal media from continuing to back extradition and denounce Assange.
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Britain’s aim in deporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden is to create the conditions for him to be transferred to the United States and tried for treason. It is a filthy enterprise, carried out on instructions from the Obama administration in Washington.
Its aim is to punish and destroy someone who has done much to expose the bloody crimes of successive US and UK governments. The American ruling elite and its international accomplices want to make an example of Assange. They aim to intimidate all those who seek to counter the wall of official lies, promoted by a corrupt “mainstream” media, used to conceal or justify war crimes and conspiracies against the peoples of the world. Continue reading »
L’affaire des Pussies
Editor’s Note: I copy below a HuffPo report on the “Pussy Riot” case, a strange development which, if true, certainly casts a bad hue on Vladimir Putin, and on the government’s appeal to nationalism—which may be necessary in his eyes at this point—through the support of organized superstition, in this instance, the still popular Russian Orthodox Church. If true, that’s bad, really bad, for its shows, as some have claimed (more on that below), that the separation of Church and state is blurring in Russia, precisely as it becomes, de facto, increasingly murky in the United States itself.
Meantime, the controversy about the infamous performance of the punk girl band at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior—and their sentence to a couple of years in jail—continues in Russia for three weeks already. By any reckoning it’s a confusing mess and it shows no signs of abating any time soon. Continue reading »
RT has released the following video clip which we regard as important enough to ask our colleagues in other sites to disseminate widely.
