The Invisible Army The New Yorker ...The expansion of private-security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. But armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren’t hired guns but hired hands. ... Many of them recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by their subcontractor bosses... Capitalism’s Dirty Secret: Corporations Don’t Create Jobs, They Destroy Them naked capitalism ...For the last four decades, U.S. corporations have been sinking our economy through the off-shoring of jobs, the squeezing of wages, and a magician’s hat full of bluffs and tricks designed to extort subsidies and sweetheart deals from local and state governments that often result in mass layoffs and empty treasuries...
Americans brace for next foreclosure wave Reuters ...a painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures...
Attorney: Fake Democrats in Wisconsin committing criminal election fraud Raw Story ...Six fake Democrats running in upcoming recall primaries to push back the election date in Wisconsin are violating the law, according to an election attorney...
Gregg now calls for repeal of right to work Journal Gazette ...at an Indianapolis stop he said if he is elected governor of Indiana, the new right-to-work law will be repealed...
Teamsters Hold Election April 13 Summerville Patch ...as the state seeks to privatize school bus services, two of three of the privatized fleets in South Carolina have joined Teamsters 509. Now, a third district could have union representation for bus drivers...
