Obama had some nice words to say. However, I thought it was all empty rhetoric.
http://www.truthout.org/071709B
Goldman Sachs’ profits soar as economic injustice continues…
Last Sunday (July 12, 2009), the New York Times reported on Goldman Sachs’ soaring profits (“For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits”). Here’s a telling passage:
“The obsessive speculation has already begun, along with banter about how Goldman’s rapid return to minting money will be perceived by lawmakers and taxpayers who aided Goldman with a multibillion-dollar cushion last fall.
‘They exist, and others don’t, and taxpayers made it possible,’ said one industry consultant, who, like many people interviewed for this article, declined to be named for fear of jeopardizing business relationships.
Startling, too, is how much of its revenue Goldman is expected to share with its employees. Analysts estimate that the bank will set aside enough money to pay a total of $18 billion in compensation and benefits this year to its 28,000 employees, or more than $600,000 an employee. Top producers stand to earn millions.“
KPFA Candidate Statement
This is me speaking at a rally protesting the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a “distinguished visiting fellow” to the Hoover Institution in November in 2007.
My name is Adam Hudson and I am running for the KPFA Local Station Board. I am a senior at Stanford University majoring in International Relations with a minor in Middle Eastern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. I am involved in numerous campus activist organizations, including Stanford Says No to War, which I co-founded. Read the rest of this entry »
Senior Obama Official Backs Cheney and C.I.A., Says Concealment of Assassin Program Legal
Article by Jeremy Scahill about Cheney’s concealment of a CIA assassination program.
Senior Obama Official Backs Cheney and C.I.A., Says Concealment of Assassin Program Legal
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The Dirty War
Very eye-opening article by Dahr Jamail about the actions of Iraq Special Operations Forces (ICOF).
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Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Twenty-First-Century Colonialism in Iraq
Very interesting article about how the U.S.’s current policy in Iraq is an example of twenty-first-century colonialism.
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Twenty-First-Century Colonialism in Iraq
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Blues African 