Source: The Nation by Sebastian Jones February 11, 2010 President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews, offering up his own recovery plan. There were “modest things” the White House [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Traducción en español abajo Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges February 1, 2010 Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and [...]

Source: The Corporation How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is given more and more [...]

Source: In These Times by Noam Chomsky February 3, 2010 Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and international. The [...]

Fuente: Público por Noam Chomsky 7 de febrero, 2010 El 21 de enero de 2010 quedará registrado como un día oscuro en la historia de la democracia de Estados Unidos y su declive. Ese día, la Corte Suprema dictaminó que el Gobierno no puede prohibir que las compañías hagan aportaciones económicas en las elecciones. La decisión afecta profundamente a [...]

Source: Raw Story A Raw Story Exclusive by Brad Jacobson February 4, 2010 The Supreme Court’s seismic January ruling that corporations are free to spend unlimited amounts of their profits to advertise for or against candidates may have been the latest shakeup of campaign finance – but gaping holes already allow corporations to spend enormous sums without leaving a [...]

Source: Free Speech for People January 22, 2010 Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment. Visit FreeSpeechforPeople.org to learn more and get involved! On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

ver también Dinero y campañas en EEUU abajo Fuente: La Jornada Ya no habrá límite, podrán gastar sin restricciones para apoyar a candidatos Obama cuestiona la decisión; advierte sobre “estampida de dinero” e intereses en la política por David Brooks 22 de enero, 2010 Nueva York, 21 de enero. Al anular casi un siglo de doctrina y leyes, la Suprema Corte [...]

A Scorecard for the Future of American Politics by Andy Kroll September 15, 2009 At the end of this summer of discontent, of death panels and unplugging poor Grandma, of birthers and astroturfers and rifle-toting picketers, the halcyon early days of the Obama administration feel increasingly like hazy, gilt-edged memories. The president’s sprawling legislative agenda — a health-care [...]

Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice, Tempt Corporate Moral Hazard by David Cho August 28, 2009 When the credit crisis struck last year, federal regulators pumped tens of billions of dollars into the nation’s leading financial institutions because the banks were so big that officials feared their failure would ruin the entire financial system. Today, the biggest [...]