MEDIA ROOTS — Obama’s attacks on the social safety net continue, fueled by the claim the USA is running out of dollars. During the recent Steinhardt Lecture at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, UMKC Professor L. Randall Wray debunked various economic myths marketed in today’s headlines, which are enforced in universities and echoed by the Obama Administration. These same … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The deceptive term “sequester” in Obamaspeak refers to social spending cuts looming, ostensibly, in order to “balance the budget,” as if the US federal budget were the same as a household budget in need of balancing. The big mistake the public makes, aided by a lying corporate media perpetuating myths about the US economy, is it falls … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Abby Martin speaks with firefighter Fernando Salguero on RT’s ‘Breaking the Set’ about his brush with the police, reflecting worsening trends of abuses of power by law enforcement. MR *** BREAKING THE SET — Abby Martin speaks with Prepper and Firefighter, Fernando Salguero, about his encounter with New Jersey police, targeting him as a threat based upon … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — If scientists working for petrochemical corporations can manipulate molecular structures to derive new substances, plastics, so can scientists working for a greener agenda. Messina *** SCIENCE DAILY — Plastic bags are a bane of nature. And not just bags — just about all plastics, really. Most are made out of petroleum, and a piece of plastic, if … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Obama delivered his 2013 State of the Union Address this week. And his banal Address is unsurprising, in the sense it’s largely a continuation of policy trajectories we’ve seen during his previous term, which, in turn, have largely been a continuation of Bush policies. But for Obama’s fans, who tend to hear what they want, he, doubtless, … Read More
