A Night To Remember As the 38th Annual TNBC Comes to an End IBT ...members and leaders were recognized and rewarded for their dedication to the Teamsters National Black Caucus, locally and nationally...
Man Arrested for Attempting to Drive Over Union Demonstrators on a Picket Line NH Labor News ...On Thursday 08/15/13 the day on the line started out like any other, until an unnamed worker that is said to have been doing woodwork at this site decided to cross the line and get in the demonstrators faces…with his VAN...
Moral Monday, now in Charlotte, employs the language of faith Charlotte Observer ...The protests, which have received national attention, are not only grounded in religion but expanding their reach into churches. Organizers say they seek to reclaim the language of political morality...
Report: Rules skirted to give police chief raise Associated Press ...Gov. Scott Walker's administration gave the Capitol Police chief and his top deputy double-digit pay raises after moving them on paper to fake jobs and then back to their real posts...
Dems Defy Obama on Mortgage Protections Mother Jones ...President Barack Obama laid out his new housing plan, emphasizing the importance of safe, simple, affordable mortgages. But lawmakers in his own party are working against him, trying to gut historic new safeguards on home loans...
5 Companies That Make Money By Keeping Americans Terrified of Terror Attacks Alternet ...The drive to privatize America's national security apparatus accelerated in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, and it’s gotten to the point where 70 percent of the national intelligence budget is now spent on private contractors...
America's Growing Income Inequality Problem Economic Populist ...While the Great Recession might be relabeled the great wealth transfer from the middle classes to the super rich, it is not the actual cause for such American economic injustice. The primary cause is Congress and their never ending giving to the rich through the U.S. tax code...
Greece privatisation boss Stelios Stavridis dismissed BBC News ...Mr Stavridis had only been in the job for four months but had faced criticism for the slow pace of privatisations...
Hiring in China by JPMorgan Under Scrutiny New York Times ...Federal authorities have opened a bribery investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase hired the children of powerful Chinese officials to help the bank win lucrative business in the booming nation...
“We’re Building a Domestic Army” – Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino Before Concord, NH Town Council naked capitalism ...What’s happening here is that we’re building a domestic military because it’s unlawful or unconstitutional to use American troops on American soil...
