MEDIA ROOTS- Considering the escalation of the war against whistleblowers, it’s getting more rare to see a lone wolf sacrifice their standing from within the system to do the right thing. Amy Goodman writes for TruthDig about the case of Bunny Greenhouse, former employee of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who courageously blew the whistle on her agency for … 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
PROPUBLICA– Since 2008, an Ohio-based company, White Hat Management, has collected around $230 million to run charter schools in that state. The company has grown into a national chain and reports that it has about 20,000 students across the country. But now 10 of its own schools and the state of Ohio are suing, complaining that many White Hat students … Read More
ALTERNET– A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Michael Lerner: Michael Lerner (ML): You have made many excellent analyses of the power of global capital and its capacity to undermine ordinary citizens’ efforts to transform the global reality toward a more humane and generous world. If there were a serious movement in the U.S. ready to challenge global capital, what should … Read More
GUARDIAN– Let’s get this right: the world’s biggest boss, supported by companies as diverse as Altria, Bank of America, Microsoft and General Electric and backed up by the godfather of big business (the US Chamber of Commerce) has persuaded the US supreme court that thousands of women workers can’t possibly share enough of an interest to constitute a class? It’s … Read More
