Cómo nos exponen a “biopeligros” en el mayor experimento incontrolado de la historia Una epidemia oculta envenena EE.UU. Las toxinas están en el aire que respiramos y en el agua que bebemos, en los muros de nuestras casas y los muebles. No podemos escapar en nuestros coches. Están en las ciudades y los suburbios. Afligen a [...]

How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched     A hidden epidemic is poisoning America.  The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them.  We can’t escape it in our cars.  It’s in cities and suburbs.  [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: The Guardian The Obama administration’s latest proposal to help ‘underwater’ homeowners shows how little has been learned from the crisis by Dean Baker March 29, 2010 Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and the rest of the crew running economic policy somehow could not see the housing bubble as it grew to [...]

Source: Robert Reich’s Blog by Robert Reich November 29, 2009 One out of four homeowners is now under water, owing more on their homes than the homes are worth. Why? The biggest single factor behind the housing crisis is rising unemployment. According to the latest ABC-Washington Post poll, one out of every three Americans has either lost their [...]

Four years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the disaster continues. by Fatima Shaik September 21, 2009 On July 26, about 50 people lined up to testify before a United Nations advisory committee in the cafeteria of McDonogh 42, a New Orleans elementary school. Though there had been only a small notice in the New Orleans Times-Picayune calling [...]

by Tony Pugh September 10, 2009 WASHINGTON — The early impact of the worst recession since the 1930s pushed median incomes down, forced millions more people into poverty and left more Americans without health care in 2008, according to new annual survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Poor people, working people, blacks, Hispanics and children bore a [...]

by Katrina vanden Heuvel & Greg Kaufman September 12, 2009 In Georgia, the ease with which someone can lose a home is staggering. A foreclosure-eviction can occur without judicial review in just 35 days, and at 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday of every month, the state’s 159 counties hold a sheriff’s auction of foreclosed homes. That translated to [...]

by Madeleine Baran September 11, 2009 Minneapolis – Police arrested seven people today outside the foreclosed home of Rosemary Williams, a Minneapolis woman who has publicly refused to leave the property for months. About a dozen Minneapolis police officers arrived at the south Minneapolis home this afternoon, at the request of GMAC Mortgage, the legal owner of the [...]

por Fred Goldstein 3 de septiembre, 2009 ¿Adivinen qué? Ha habido una pequeña alza en las ganancias de algunas corporaciones. A las corporaciones y a los bancos más grandes les está yendo un poco mejor. Así que los expertos ven una “recuperación”. Sin embargo, esto no es una gran sorpresa. El gobierno dio a los bancos y a la [...]

by John Mottern September 9, 2009 Also see below: Camp Runamuck: A Photo Essay Barbara Kalil and her husband John Freitas co-founded Camp Runamuck in late March 2009, after being forced to leave their campsite in the Roger Williams State Park in Providence, Rhode Island. The plaque above their home read “Shelter for Persons in Distress.” The [...]