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May Day: Reflecting on Bangladesh factory disaster and corporate terror - Opinion
How is it that we label some acts of violence with the brush of global terrorism while others are relegated to the more mundane category of everyday violence? Tsarnaev brothers were instantly characterised as terrorists, and Muslim terrorists at that, with a national and social media frenzy dissecting their crimes boosted by the live spectacle of the “ manhunt ” in Boston. Yet in the same week, an explosion in a fertiliser factory killed 14 people and caused enormous damage to a small town in West Texas - with little media attention. The Boston Bombings were deliberate acts of terror committed by villains targeting the innocent; the Texas explosion while tragic, was seen as accidental - as opposed to the outcome of the deregulation of industry and safety standards - and therefore easily forgotten.
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Whose terror, whose pain? - Opinion
Who gets to say what terror"ism" is? Terror and its trauma exists in too many places with too much heartbreak - in wars, random accidents, rapes, bombings and plant explosions; in tsunamis and earthquakes, in mass shootings and gang wars. Terror when an "ism" is always politically loaded. When Obama went on national television to speak about the bombings at the Boston Marathon it became an act of terror"ism" even though he was careful to not use the term. It became an assault against the nation even though not much was known of the bombers or their reasons.
The Washington elites apparently believe that we are in the worst downturn since the Great Depression because of free spending seniors running wild with their Social Security cheques.
Why are we debating cuts to Social Security? - Opinion
The story so far: At the beginning of 2010, two Harvard economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, circulated a paper, “ Growth in a Time of Debt ,” that purported to identify a critical “threshold,” a tipping point, for government indebtedness. Once debt exceeds 90 percent of gross domestic product, they claimed, economic growth drops off sharply. Ms.
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Kapitalismus in der Krise: Milliardäre, aufgepasst!
Der Kapitalismus ... Antwort 1: ist gut, wie er istThe year's top story is not getting coverage
New York, NY - As every media critic learns, the worst sin of our press is not its blatant biases, or crimes of commission, but rather the pervasive patterns of omission; what's left out! Already, with two weeks to go, the Associated Press has crossed the finish line with the top choice of the newspapers it serves.
Which stories did the media ignore this year? - Inside Story Americas
There are stories that have enormous consequences on the lives of Americans but are regularly under-reported or misrepresented by the mainstream media. Project Censored, the US media watchdog group, has released their annual report examining the shortcomings of reporting in 2012. Amongst the key topics: the rising police state and the erosion of civil liberties, climate change and the destruction of oceans, and the rising disparity between the one percent and the 99 percent.
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America in Decline by Noam Chomsky
“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in the current Political Science Quarterly."Es ist eine weit verbreitete Ansicht, dass sich die USA, die von der Welt noch vor wenigen Jahren als ein Koloss mit unvergleichlicher Macht und unübertroffener Anziehungskraft bejubelt wurden, im freien Fall befinden und endgültig unterzugehen drohen," schreibt Giacomo Chiozza in der gegenwärtigen Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Political Science Quarterly.
Die USA im freien Fall — ZNet - a community committed to social change
