Daniel Mohammad Khan-Yousufzai faces charges for “vandalism, criminal mischief, and possessing instruments of crime”. What was his crime? He painted the letters “WRC” in the walls of Common Rooms of the Cathedral of Learning. After that, he sat down outside the University of Pittsburgh main building, waiting for the police.
That situation driving me to thinking about James Q. Wilson’s broken windows theory. According to this approach, disorder causes a breakdown in local social control, (…)
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UNITED STATES - New Political and Social Messages Through the “Social Disorder”
Oscar Cariceo
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UNITED STATES - Drug War Capitalism
Dawn Paley
22 December 2012, by Claudia CasalSolidarity - In both the United States and Canada there have been sustained grassroots efforts to spotlight the unjust mass incarceration and criminalization of poor people, and especially poor people of color, for drug-related arrests. But there has been too little analysis about the reasons behind and mechanisms of this war, and its economic impact on Mexico and beyond.
Even before a withdrawal from Iraq or Afghanistan has been achieved, the United States has become involved in a series (…) -
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US - “Civil War in the United States?”Immanuel Wallerstein
17 March 2009, by John MaloneMarch 15, 2009 - We are getting accustomed to all sorts of breakdowns of taboos. The world press is full of discussion about whether it would be a good idea to "nationalize" banks. None other than Alan Greenspan, disciple of the superlibertarian prophet of pure market capitalism, Ayn Rand, has recently said that we have to nationalize banks once every hundred years, and this may be that moment. Conservative Republican Senator Lindsay Graham agreed with him. Left Keynesian Alan Blinder (…)
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UNITED STATES - “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)”
David Cay Johnston, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
23 January 2008, by John MaloneJanuary 18, 2008 - Democracy Now! News Program - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to talk about his new book, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill). Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected. David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the New (…)
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UNITED STATES - The Conscience of a Liberal: New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman on Healthcare, Tax Cuts, Social Security, the Mortgage Crisis and Alan Greenspan
Paul Krugman, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
18 October 2007, by John MaloneWednesday, October 17th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program - New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is author of the new book, The Conscience of a Liberal. Krugman teaches economics and international affairs at Princeton University and was recently named Columnist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine. He joins us in the firehouse studio to talk about the Bush administration’s opposition to child health insurance and why universal healthcare has long been considered politically (…)
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UNITED STATES - Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush’s Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More
Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein & Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
2 October 2007, by John MaloneMonday, September 24th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program - In a Democracy Now! exclusive debate, former federal reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and journalist Naomi Klein square off on the Iraq war, oil, President Bush tax cuts, social security, economic populism in Latin America, corruption and crony capitalism. Greenspan headed the central bank in the United States for almost two decades. He has written a new 500-page memoir titled, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. At (…)
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US - The Bottled Water Lie: As Soft Drink Giant Admits Product is Tap Water, New Scrutiny Falls on the Economic and Environmental Costs of a Billion Dollar Industry
Amy Goodman, Gigi Kellett & Michael Blanding, Democracy Now!
7 August 2007, by John MaloneWednesday, August 1st, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program.
AMY GOODMAN: The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission: its bestselling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week, Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate the water comes from a public water source. Pepsi agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, which has been leading an increasingly (…) -
US - An Hour with Michael Moore on "Sicko", his Trip to Cuba with 9/11 Rescue Workers, the Removal of Private Healthcare Companies & Clinton’s Ties to Insurance Companies: "They’re into Her Pocket and She’s Into Their Pocket And I Don’t Expect Much From Her"
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
9 July 2007, by John MaloneMonday, June 18th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program - Michael Moore is on the move. On Wednesday, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will testify on Capitol Hill. He then heads to New Hampshire to challenge presidential candidates – Democrat and Republican – over the nation’s healthcare system.
Oh, and his latest documentary, SiCKO, is being released in thousands of theaters next week. The film is a seething indictment of the US healthcare system. It focuses not on the more than 40 (…) -
US - New Educational Opportunities for Latinos: Catholic Universities in the Americas
Michael Hogan
28 February 2007, by Michael HoganAs tuitions rise at universities in the United States and scholarship funds pay for an even smaller percentage of costs, many parents are finding college education for their children beyond their financial reach. For some, the answer has been to mortgage the home, or for the student to take out prohibitive loans. For others, the choice has been a community college or even to forego college entirely, and for the student enter the work force as untrained labor.
A program begun in 2004 now (…) -
US-MEXICO - U.S. Drug Habit Migrates to Mexico
Sam Logan & Kate Kairies, IRC-Americas
18 February 2007, by Manuela Garza AscencioIRC - The seemingly insatiable U.S. appetite for drugs manifests itself on every level, from local neighborhoods to the halls of power in Washington.
For a long time, the United States’ addiction to hard drugs was seen as strictly a domestic problem. Compared to drug demand in the United States, consumption of illegal drugs in Latin America was relatively low. Countries south of the Rio Grande kept mainly to production and distribution—as long as U.S. demand created a market, Latin America (…)