- Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party
- "This Senator Is Going to Fight Back"--Sen. Bernie Sanders says he "was not elected to the United States Senate to make devastating cuts in Social Security, in Medicare, in Medicaid, in children's programs, while lowering tax rates for the wealthiest people in this country." He also had the Government Accountability Office conduct a study that revealed "the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world."
- Out from under the anti-tax pledge--A vote for letting the Bush temporary tax cuts expire.
- Twitter rages: Murdoch's Times of London famine cartoon 'most offensive' thing yet?--Pathetic attempt at deflection.
- James Murdoch misled MPs, say former NoW editor and lawyer
- 7 Wall St. Journal opinion pieces support Murdoch
- The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons
- Private Prisons Spend Millions to Put More People in Jail
- Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
- Report: Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit
- ‘Prison Math’ and the War on Drugs
- Defense Contractors Using Prison Labor to Build High-Tech Weapons Systems
- High court to Calif: Cut prison inmates by 33,000
- Prisoners Near Death As 1,700 California Inmates Continue Hunger Strike To Protest Appalling Conditions--It had gone up to three weeks.
- Guards admit to beating N.C. inmate
- Mass Incarceration
- Supreme Court Allows Inmates to Sue for DNA Testing--This is great news for those wrongfully accused convicts, but is harvesting DNA from arrestees constitutional?
- Prison doctor gets paid for doing little or nothing--"A California surgeon has mostly been locked out of his job: on paid leave, fired or fighting his termination. When he does work,it's reviewing records. He made $777,000 last year, including back pay."
- Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security, Court Rules
- Angelo's agony: Dutch prisoner 'too big for cell'
- World's poshest prison?--"'When they arrive many of them are in bad shape and we want to build them up, give them confidence through education and work and have them leave as better people.' [...] In Norway only 20 per cent of prisoners end up back in jail after release, compared to between 50 and 60 per cent in the UK."
