Don’t 30 Million Workers Deserve 1968 Wages? by Ralph Nader

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Updated: added Action Alert June 18, 2012

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
June 7, 2012

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Thirty million American workers arise, you have nothing to lose but some of your debt!

Wednesday morning, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) introduced the “Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2012” (H.R. 5901) – legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour. The present minimum wage is $7.25, way below the unrealistically low federal poverty definition of $18,123 per year for a family of three. Adjusted for inflation, the 1968 minimum wage today would be a little above $10 per hour.

Michael Hudson: Obama scapegoats Euro for miserable US economy

by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
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http://michael-hudson.com
June 8, 2012

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Jun 8, 2012 by RTAmerica

Republicans have given President Obama a lot of heat for the gloomy US economy. The recent jobs numbers released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics have fallen short of what was predicted and President Obama has resorted to blaming the European financial crisis. So who or what is to blame for the dreary US economy? Michael Hudson, economics professor for the University of Missouri, joins us with more.

Southeast Asia: U.S. Revives And Expands Cold War Military Alliances Against China by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
June 9, 2012

On May 30 the two officials most in charge of the U.S.’s formidible global military machine, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, visited Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii to launch multi-nation tours of the Asia-Pacific region and formally commence the announced shift of American military concentration and assets to the area.

Andy Worthington: Gitmo detainees stay imprisoned years after being cleared + SCOTUS Kills Habeas Corpus for Gitmo Detainees

with Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
11 June 2012

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Jun 11, 2012 by RTAmerica

Then Senator Obama touted if he became president of the United States, he would make shutting down Guantanamo Bay a top priority. But for many, the failure of restoring the right to Habeas Corpus to those prisoners is unacceptable. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave a preview of the cases it would be willing to hear in its next term from detainees being held in the Cuban facility. Several people in Gitmo have been officially cleared for release, but still remain behind bars. Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, joins us to explain why that is.

Iraq: The Terrible State Murder of Abed Hamid Hamoud by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
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London, England
10 June 2012

“There was no honour left; ruin and war and the blood was flowing …
Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary destruction.” (Rachid Taha, Algerian Musician and lyricist, 1958-)

Shocking details have emerged from an impeccable source (not named for obvious reasons) of the execution on Thursday 7^th June, in Baghdad, of Abed Hamid Hamoud, President Saddam Hussein’s former personal secretary and aide.

Mr Hamoud, fourth on America’s 2003 asinine, juvenile playing card list of Iraq’s sovereign government, has been held in jail since June 2003, after being arrested by US occupying forces.

Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Sarsa remains on hunger strike + Let Sarsak Live, Palestinian footballer – 80 days on hunger strike

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Jun 11, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 89 days has denied claims by the Israel Prison Services that he had ended his protest.

“(Mahmoud) Sarsak ended his hunger strike,” IPS spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said, saying he had taken the decision to end his fast after consulting his lawyer and the prison administration.

Daniel Berrigan, America’s Street Priest by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
June 11, 2012

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The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, undaunted at 92 and full of the fire that makes him one of this nation’s most courageous voices for justice, stands in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. He is there, along with other clergy, to ask Trinity Church, which is the third-largest landowner in Manhattan, to drop charges against Occupy activists, including retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, for occupying its empty lot on 6th Avenue and Canal Street on Dec. 17. The protesters, slated to go to court Monday, June 11, hoped to establish a new Liberty Square on the lot after being evicted by New York City police from Zuccotti in November.