• Is Inequality Good?

    A new book by one of Mitt Romney’s former business partners at Bain Capital, scheduled to be the featured New York Times Magazine cover story on Sunday,argues that inequality is good. CHUCK COLLINS, Bob Keener, bob at wealthforcommongood.org http://99to1book.orgCollins, a long-time inequality activist was certainly born into the 1%. He went to the same high…

  • * 7,000 Occupy Arrests * Return of May Day

    Christ Ernesto is with OccupyArrests.com which just released these findings: “With the May Day arrests of at least 116 people at Occupy protests around the country, there have now been a minimum of 7,106 Occupy arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began in New York on September 17, 2011.”…

  • Is Murdoch Fit to Control Broadcast Licenses?

    KARL GROSSMAN, Professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College of New York, Grossman recently wrote the article, “Rupert Murdoch and the FCC: Unfit to Broadcast,” which states: “With the finding this week by a committee of the British Parliament that Rupert Murdoch is ‘not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of…

  • Obama-Karzai Text Allows for Tens of Thousands of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

    The New York Times just wrote from Afghanistan: “President Obama landed here Tuesday, on a surprise visit, to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war that has lasted for more than a decade. The Times claimed: “Mr. Obama, arriving after nightfall under a veil…

  • May Day: Activists on the Ground

    The Guardian is providing live coverage of May Day protests. ARUN GUPTA, Gupta is a founding editor of the New York City-based Indypendent, co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and covers the Occupy movement for Salon. He has recently visited dozens of “occupations” around the country and just wrote “Occupy’s Other Big Test: In…

  • “Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the FBI”

    Pulitzer-prize winning author David Shipler had an op-ed in the Sunday New York Times titled “Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the FBI,” which states: “The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol;…

  • “May Day is Coming Home”

    Available for a very limited numbers of interviews scheduled well in advance, Chomsky’s latest pamphlet, titled Occupy, is being released on MayDay. It’s the first of the new “Occupied Media” pamphlet series from Zuccotti Park Press. Chomsky just wrote the piece “May Day,” which states: “People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where…

  • Charles Taylor Conviction

    Reuters reports: “A United Nations-backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time a head of state has been found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg.” Woods, who is originally from Liberia, is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the…

  • Arizona Immigration Case and “Reverse-Commandeering”

    Hu is an assistant professor at Duke Law School and is the author of a forthcoming article in the U.C. Davis Law Review titled “Reverse-Commandeering.” She just wrote on the American Constitution Society blog: “As the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v. U.S., one of the main legal questions it considered is this:…

  • “Occupy the Justice Department”

    Actor Danny Glover, activists and authors Frances Fox Piven and Norman Finkelstein and Public Enemy frontman Talib Kweli are among those participating in “Occupy the Justice Department” protests today. The protests demand an end to “systemic police corruption and civil rights violations in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case and in the cases of hundreds of others across…

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