Obama’s election marked a new dawn for hundreds of millions of people, who were looking to an eloquent, constitutional lawyer for “Hope” and “Change” in America. However, it quickly became apparent that Obama had little substance beyond the slogans branded by his campaign.With a little more than a year left in his presidency, his milquetoast legacy has been embodied by … Read More
Forget Stephen King. If you want scary, read U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s 150-page Findings of Fact released recently in the Deepwater Horizon case. Although the judge found BP liable for “gross negligence,” some U.S. media failed to mention that Barbier let BP off the hook on punitive damages. And that stuns me, given that the record seems to identify enough smoking … Read More
When you hear the words indefinite detention, Guantanamo Bay prison probably comes to mind. But perhaps it’s time to add Scott County, Mississippi to the list. Recently, the ACLU filed a class action lawsuit against the county on behalf of 50 prisoners who have been detained for months on end without being charged nor provided a lawyer. One man named Joshua Basset, for … Read More
The 9/11 attacks gave the US a huge opportunity to embark on a new era of global unity and partnership. Instead, the tragedy was exploited – not only to erode Americans’ civil liberties, but to engage in endless militarism based on imperial bloodlust. The US government tortured, bombed, invaded, occupied and destabilized entire nations that had nothing to do with 9/11 … Read More
Since 2008, the year of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded a multimillion dollar university research program to probe the complex dynamics of mass social and political movements, anticipate global trends, and ultimately augment the intelligence community’s preparations for civil unrest and insurgencies both abroad and at home. Part of … Read More
