MEDIA ROOTS- Abby Martin from Media Roots reports the news for Project Censored’s KPFA morning show about the Verizon worker strikes and the role that multinational corporations have in Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The segment features an interview with Dalit Baum, founder of “Who Profits from the Occupation”, an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- The London riots were mostly summarized as an animalistic decline of civil society by the corporate press, with too little analysis as to what societal, political and economic factors could cause such a backlash to occur. Since there was no apparent political motivation behind the rioting, it was easy to discard the actions as indiscriminate herd looting and … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Sometimes I forget that I am living in a police state, and then I hear about stories like this: last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut off cellphone service at several stations in an attempt to stop a planned protest over another fatal shooting by BART police. It was spun as a preventative safety measure by BART … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS– To all those who mocked the anti-war community’s “no blood for oil” mantra, turns out BP has zeroed in on controlling a huge piece of Iraq’s oil pie. Instead of being punished for irreversibly polluting the earth’s oceans, BP’s criminality continues to be rewarded with even more government contracts. In addition to the $2 billion in annual US … Read More
GLOBAL RESEARCH – This article was written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but he recently e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he might fashion what he had told me … Read More
