Progressive Review

• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  Textbook for the war on education Food brands using Monsanto seeds From 1999-2010, the total U.S. prison population rose 18 percent, an increase largely reflected by the "drug war" and stringent sentencing guidelines, such as three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences. However, total private prison populations exploded fivefold during this […]
• Police blotter
  Smoking Gun - A North Carolina mother had her son arrested this week for taking her Pop-Tarts without permission, police report.The child was busted on a larceny charge, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, whose officers were summoned Monday night to a Charlotte home by Latasha Renee Love, the accused juvenile’s 37-year-old mother.A pol […]
• How lobbying pays off big time
  Tom Edsall, NY Times - According to statistics United Republic assembled, the prescription drug industry spent $116 million lobbying for legislation to prevent Medicare from bargaining down drug prices — legislation that enabled drug companies to make an additional $90 billion annually. That amounts to an extraordinary 77,500 percent return on investment. Oi […]
• How the police spy on social media
  IT News, Australia - A dedicated team of British police officers are monitoring social media around the clock in the wake of last night’s fatal attack on a soldier in the south-east of London, in order to gauge sentiment and be ready to respond.Umut Ertogral, who runs the Opensource Intelligence Unit for London’s Metropolitan Police Service, today told the A […]
• Great moments with Hillary Clinton
  1999 Mrs. Clinton is mentioned 36 times in the fraud indictment against Webster Hubbell. Writes the AP's Peter Yost: "Starr alleges Hubbell concealed his own and Mrs. Clinton's work during the 1980s on a failed Arkansas land deal, known as Castle Grande, that federal regulators say was riddled with 'insider dealing, fictitious sales and l […]
• Great moments in school discipline: camper punished for having Swiss Army knife
  Daily Caller - A fifth-grader in Cupertino, California was suspended and threatened with expulsion for bringing a small Swiss Army knife on a school-sponsored, science-oriented camping trip. In early April, Braden Bandermann’s class set off on Garden Gate Elementary School’s annual, week-long pilgrimage for fifth-graders to the Marin Headlands, just north of […]
• Shop Talk: It's lead, not lede
  Sam Smith - One of the true joys in life is to discover that something you thought was true or false but couldn't prove turns out to be what you thought. For example, I could never understand why journalists were starting to spell lead as lede.Journalist Howard Owens has come to my rescue. Howard Owens - Early in my career somebody I obviously respected […]
• Amphibian creatures disappearing faster than thought
  Baltimore Sun -  A new study finds frogs, toads and salamanders disappearing at an alarming rate across the United States.In what they say is the first analysis of its kind, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and a couple of universities report that declines in environmentally sensitive amphibians are more widespread and more severe than previously t […]
• Judge sentenced to 28 years for kickbacks for sending kids to private prisons
  Black News - Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kick […]
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• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  33% work more than 40 hours a week Jews & secularists are best tippers   The payoff for being on a reality show Apple has $30 billion tax free in Irish accounts 18 big corporations that keep huge amounts of money overseas Stereotype buster of the day Quotes A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain Po […]
• Rebuilding America: Concentrate on specific issues
   Another in our series on Rebuilding America Sam Smith - I learned this secret many years ago when I first became involved in activism. The issue then was an unwanted fare increase by DC Transit. The organizer was the heavily black and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee but the participants came from all over including 100,000 riders who stayed […]
• The real Hillary Clinton: Whether or not to indict
  On April 27, 1998, deputy independent counsel Hickman Ewing met with his prosecutors to decide on whether to indict Hillary Clinton. Here's what happened as reported by Sue Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf in their book, "Truth at Any Cost:" "[Ewing] paced the room for more than three hours, recalling facts from memory in his distinctive Mem […]
• State Department names Israel lobbyist as special envoy on anti-semitism
  MJ Rosenberg, Mondoweiss - The new State Department Envoy on anti-Semitism is former AIPAC lobbyist Ira Forman, a guy whose entire career has been dedicated to advancing the policies of the Israeli government, at AIPAC and then as head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, where he worked to ensure that Democrats were more hawkish on Israel than Republi […]
• FBI spied on leading anti-war online news journal
  Economic Policy Journal - The editors of Antiwar.com have known for some time that the FBI has had an eye on them. Naturally enough, they used the Freedom of Information Act to request bureau’s files on them and their organization—but the FBI hasn’t been forthcoming. Now the ACLU has filed suit to force the bureau to divulge the extent of its snooping on ant […]