Three bankers in Vietnam are being faced with possible execution while American bankers are experiencing an all time low of fines for infractions. This is brought to you by a partnership between the government and Wall Street. Under Trump the economy was basically given as a gift to Big...
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Private prisons make their profits from making sure incarcerated Americans stay behind bars, and have nestled in small communities that rely on those profits to drive their economies. But with federal sentencing reforms reducing the number of incarcerated Americans, small towns that house these prisons, like Estancia, New Mexico, are feeling the pinch. A private prison in Estancia will layoff staff if they can’t find 300 inmates to fill their empty beds. And the corporation that owns the prison doesn’t exactly have a great track record in treating inmates or staff with humanity, proving again that these facilities are...
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It turns out we don’t have to wait for Net Neutrality to be gutted to see restricted access to left-wing news sites. Google is practicing its own form of censorship by revamping its search protocol to limit your ability to read pages such as Wikileaks, DemocracyNow! and AlterNet. Lee Camp has more on how Google is leading the way in making sure the masses stay uninformed about all the ways in which our capitalist society is killing...
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On Redacted Tonight, Lee opens by revealing the government sanctioned poison pusher, Monsanto’s backdoor deals. Cancer causing pesticides like Roundup were widely used, despite science to prove otherwise, but the company made a concerted effort to get scientists, the media, and the government on their side by filling their pockets or intimidating them. Monsanto also has unholy partnerships with universities which taints scientific research even...
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Lee rips into Fox News’ coverage of the recent heat wave with climate science news from the past week. The weather could be killing us soon, but Fox somehow fails to mention that while people are suffering and forests are set ablaze. How will they report the acceleration of man-induced human...
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