In a bid to cut costs, more state prisons and county jails are adding healthcare to the growing list of services that are outsourced to for-profit companies So the prisons are run … Continue reading Welcome to Jail Inc: how private companies make money off US prisons
In most advanced countries, gun homicides are as rare as deaths from falling tree limbs or plane crashes. The United States is an outlier when it comes to the rate of gun … Continue reading Compare These Gun Death Rates: The U.S. Is in a Different World
Since the 1990s, millions of teenagers have been arrested for breaking curfew, which a policy analysis shows has a disproportionate impact on minorities. In San Diego, it’s illegal for anyone under the age … Continue reading Life under curfew for American teens: ‘it’s insane, no other country does this’
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” .. (Walter Cronkite) Great line by Walter Cronkite.. unfortunately it rings true! Source: cartoonpolitics Continue reading US Healthcare – Satire
“I saw this in Baghdad. We’ve seen it again in Afghanistan,” recalled Cotton, who served in the Army during both wars. “Security has to come first, whether you’re in a war zone … Continue reading Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. has ‘under-incarceration problem’
And how has the Democratic Party behaved particularly differently? How many of you are serving mochas with a master’s degree or struggling with health issues you can’t afford to attend to — … Continue reading The case for Hillary Clinton — and against #BernieOrBust
After reading “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein, you realize that the United States has been responsible for some pretty shocking happenings around the world. I later came across this study from … Continue reading The Consequences of US “Shock Doctrine” Policy
And Utahns are constantly Googling “net neutrality,” for reasons we can’t quite imagine. Source: U.S. states have some pretty weird top political Google searches Continue reading U.S. states have some pretty weird top political Google searches
The donors at the very top of the money pyramid provided the financial fuel for many of the attack ads and other messages from independent organizations that filled the airwaves last year. … Continue reading No member of 114th Congress elected without money from the 1% of the 1%
America was supposed to be a “monument” to the world of liberty and human rights, as expressed by Thomas Jefferson in 1802, people in other countries would see how great our country … Continue reading American Leadership of the World?
While I sit here waiting to be called for Jury Duty, I am comforted by the fact that the County of Los Angeles is protecting me from going to the YourAnonNews.org website … Continue reading Government Protects me from @YourAnonNews Website – Thank you!
The journalists, one American (Greenwald) and one British (Poitras) are risking their freedom entering the United States on Friday to accept the George Polk Award in Journalism. Greenwald reported the Snowden leaks, … Continue reading Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to risk entering the US Friday
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