Stories NOT in the news today

Here are some important news stories and serious media analyses that are NOT in the mainstream news today.

The first is about the shift from a social welfare state (where we aim to help our fellow citizens by providing for their general welfare, as noted in our nation's founding documents) to a social control state (where we aim to control everything people do in order to protect them from serious threats
(both imagined or manufactured and real).

The second is about the growing and impressive power of large banks (the very actors who were found to be responsible for crashing the US economy in 2008).

 

Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism

The Leveraged Buyout of America

Now you won't see these stories in the mainstream news (since they are owned and operated by large corporations. But you will see them in and hear about them in TruthOut, PBS, NPR, ProPublica, etc.

So use those sources as much as you can.

Stories NOT being told in the mainstream press

Why a Constitutional Law Professor Should Not Sign an Unconstitutional Military Detention Bill

Ralph Lopez, War Is A Crime

The War on Drug Addicts - and Everyone Else

Maya Schenwar, Truthout

New Documents Released of 2007 Iraq Atrocity by Troops

David Swanson, War Is A Crime.org

How Now, Brown Cloud: What Smog Hath Wrought

Michael Winship, Truthout

Group Challenges CIA's Worldwide 'Targeted Killing' Campaign

 

 

'Craigslist Killer' Case Highlights the Plight of America's Jobless

 

Israel Forms Corps for Strategic Strikes

 

Secret US, Taliban Talks Indicate Slow Road to Peace

 

A reminder why the independent news organizations are so important

Because you don't see stories like this in the mainstream press:

Anatomy of a $30 Billion Medicare Crime

Kathleen Sharp, Truthout

Don't Drink the Water: Tainted Water Flows from Taps of Rural Valley Homes

Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee

US Tax Policies Benefit Rich

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.

62% of Americans Want Immediate Troop Cuts in Afghanistan

 

Bill McKibben:

The Cronyism Behind a Pipeline for Crude

And my two favorites:

CNN's Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street

Fox News Offers Wall Street Protester an Interview but Doesn't Air It After He Slams Fox

Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress

Counter-terrorism news you're not seeing in the news

As we rapidly approach the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, now is the appropriate time to examine what they have really cost us.

So you'd expect the mainstream press to be looking at this issue. And to some degree, they are.

But only on independent news sites will you find stories like these. Together, they call into serious question America's "war on terror" (like it's war on crime and war on drugs, there are some benefits but also enormous costs).

We are spying on our own citizens.

We are infiltrating peace groups and non-Christian religious groups with no probable cause.

We are spending trillions of dollars (think: billions of dollars, millions of times).

We are killing innocent people.

For example:

From Truthout.org:

What a Difference a Decade Makes: Ten Years of "Homeland Security"

Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, "Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the 'Homeland'"

Landmines and Cluster Bombs: "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion"

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout

From CommonDreams.org:

 

Wikileaks Cable: Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head

Food for thought.

Mountaintop removal=60,000 cancers

... making it more deadly than murder.

Yet, it remains perfectly legal, in spite of the immense damage it does to the environment and the inhabitants of an area.

The companies behind this basically have said, "Hey, there is West Virginia, they don't need those mountains."

And although citizens have been fighting it for decades, it continues, mostly because law-makers remain in the pockets of the companies.

But you rarely hear about this from the mainstream media.

This is the beauty of independent media, such as Common Dreams, free from the stranglehold of corporations.

Use these media if you want to learn about what is really dangerous. You won't learn it from Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/27-2

USA killing innocent civilians by the thousands in Afghanistan

And it is NOT called terrorism.

Nor does it regularly make the news.


But is happening. Every day.

And only the "alternative media" are talking about.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/04

 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/03