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-- Cuba Years Ahead in Eat Local Movement - the result of thousands of urban cooperative gardens replacing expensive imported food;
-- Military Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan privatized and militarized education as CEO of Chicago's public schools;
-- Latin American Leaders Refute US Drug War - they propose a new paradigm to replace America's failed one;
-- Guantanamo Worsens Since Obama - after promising to close Guantanamo and end torture, prison conditions there are as bad or worse than before;
-- Fault Lines Intersect Nuke Plant Near NYC - sitting atop newly identified fault lines shows New York is more at risk than previously imagined;
-- Battle for the Future of SEIU - it pits rank-and-file members against the failure and power aspirations of its leadership;
-- Constitution-Free Zone for Two-Thirds of US Population - more evidence of DHS abusing its authority at the expense of constitutionally-guaranteed rights;
-- Coal vs. Wind in West Virginia - An energy battle may result;
-- Father Roy Excommunicated? - Roy Bourgeois has been threatened by the Vatican unless he recants his support for ordaining women in the priesthood;
-- Air Force Embraces Coal - as a result, the transportation fuel of the future may be coal-based;
-- Terrorizing Dissenters at the RNC - St. Paul, MN, the site of the 2008 Republican Convention, was turned into a police state for the event;
-- UN Negligence is Killing Child Refugees in Kosovo - three UN-established refugee camps sit atop a toxic waste dump killing dozens and causing 50 miscarriages because of suspected lead poisoning; and
-- Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations - under Dick Cheney, the Bush administration ran an "executive assassination ring" in Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
An Entire Section is devoted to updating previous PC Stories, including the top one for 2009 on "More than One Million Killed in Iraq." Occupation and violence keep elevating and depriving Iraqis of their freedom.
Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2008/2009
In 1984, PC Director Carl Jensen called it a "Twinkie, not very nourishing for the consumer." He now says it's a "major problem in journalism and corporate media, particularly on today's cable and television news." The late Communications Professor George Gerbner (1919 - 2005) once said "they have everything to sell and nothing to tell." And famed comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919 - 1962) once explained why television is called a medium - "because it's neither rare or well done."
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