MEDIA ROOTS — Many of us notice our society’s shift away from the use of anonymous cash and toward the use of databeast-tracked digital money. But many are unaware that there are steps already being taken to outlaw cash in favour of debit/credit cards and digital transactions. In Louisiana, House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) was … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Earlier this month, we featured the Guns & Butter broadcast with Catherine Austin Fitts, “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part 1.” Today, we bring you “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part 2.” Last year, Washington D.C. national-security reporter, Sharon Weinberger wrote about the U.S. Military’s so-called Black Budget, “Not since the end of the Cold War has the Pentagon spent so … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — As big banks inject record amounts of cash into lobbying this year, largely aimed at access to financial regulators, Wells Fargo, in particular, stands out because of its added rapacious dimension of investments in for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centres. Certainly, legal wrangling over deportation policies is politicised. Yet, whereas pre-9/11, undocumented immigrants were summarily deported to … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — As scores of political prisoners languish in U.S. prisons and solitary confinement and California prisoners wage hunger strikes to call attention to inhumane conditions inside the prison-industrial complex, Bradley Manning, held by the U.S. military, ranks among the most high profile and highly targeted by the U.S. government. Various reports have directly confirmed Manning has endured cruel and … Read More
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MEDIA ROOTS — On Monday, November 14, 2011, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast gave a stirring talk at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, CA to discuss his new book, “about the 1%,” Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores. Palast discussed the 1% and why we occupy Wall Street and beyond, acknowledging … Read More
