MEDIA ROOTS — Duplicitous White House policy continues to metastasize under Obama, as it has with Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton. For the past 30 years, the government has consistently enacted policies that give more power to Washington D.C. in the name of bettering the lives of regular Americans. The current regime pulls our attention away from this practice with … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — In a tragic reflection of the Global Recession and crushing economic hardship across the USA, an eviction on Thursday, April 12, 2012 in Modesto, CA ended in tragedy and death after neighbours reported some twelve gunshots, leaving a locksmith and a cop dead during the eviction attempt and leading to a day-long standoff involving over a hundred cops … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Proving the power of social networking, online writing, and blogging, the U.S. military is pushing to dismiss U.S. Marine Sergeant Gary Stein with ‘other-than-honourable‘ discharge as well as banning the Marine from all U.S. military bases, in violation of his First Amendment rights, for dissing Obama on Facebook. Until the dismissal is finalised, Stein has been removed … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — On Monday, KPFA Radio’s The Morning Mix spoke with representatives from California’s third-parties about their legal challenge to Proposition 14, Rubin v. Bowen, which created the new statewide ‘Top Two’ electoral system. Under this system, the rigged de facto two-party system has now been virtually codified in California. Given the obscene amounts of corporate funding expended by the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — From warrantless wiretapping to SMART meter invasion of privacy, it seems everywhere we turn we are allowing erosion of our rights to privacy. Meanwhile, the state wants it both ways, as it’s pushed to stifle police transparency by outlawing videotaping of on-duty cops in some states. Legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley, has noted the absurdity of … Read More
