Tag Archives: Security
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares
May 18, 2013
On June 28, 2012, three longtime peace activists — Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 and Michael Walli, 63 — cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,...
Scandals With Traction?
By John Nordin
Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than Watergate.
The noise machine is in full cry. The...
On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt
By Paul Kiel
Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation’s military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent.
The...
Cuomo Cure For Nonprofit Excess Exempts High-Paid Health Execs
By Curtis Skinner
Many of New York’s nonprofit hospitals specialize in supersized pay — and new rules reining in publicly funded salaries are unlikely to change the equation.
Starting in July, following an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Department...
Museum To Honor Henry Kissinger, But Is He Worthy Of Praise?
By Frederick Reese
In recent American history, a litany of different personalities have occupied the executive office at the Harry S Truman building at Foggy Bottom. War hawks, accommodationists, international diplomats and isolationists have entered and left the position of secretary of...
Obama Continues To Hack Away At Press Freedoms
By Mint Press News Desk
The New York Times (NYT) editorial board is calling out the Obama administration for “secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.” It’s a bold allegation that has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups and concerned...
Close Guantanamo Now!
By Stephen Lendman
As president and commander-in-chief, Obama has legal authority to do so. On May 3, New York City Bar President Carey R. Dunne wrote him. He did so on behalf of the organization he heads.
He called indefinite detention “legally and morally indefensible.” He said...
ExxonMobil Gears Up For Publicity Battle As US Oil Reserve Estimates Climb
By Trisha Marczak
As America battles the prospect of a 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline constructed in the heartland of the nation that would transport more than 800,000 of oil through the U.S. every day, the oil-fracking movement is gaining even more traction with a new report indicating...
Tales of Things to Come: The Spooky Physics Of Quantum Mechanics
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
“Man has limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.” – Alvin Toffler
Though written more than 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler’s work on the psychological and social consequences of too much change, too...
The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers In A World Of Hurt
By Paul Kiel
One day late last year, Katrina Sutton stood at a gas pump outside Atlanta and swiped her debit card. Insufficient funds. But that couldn’t be. She’d been careful to wait until her $270 paycheck from Walmart had hit her account. The money wasn’t there?...
