USA Oligarchy, Cheating Soldiers Out of Education & Fight for Fifteen

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

News / Government
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USA Oligarchy, Cheating Soldiers Out of Education & Fight for Fifteen

Abby Martin remarks on a Princeton and Northwestern University study concluding that US national laws and regulations overwhelmingly align with the preference of the economic elite. The federal probe that exposes how Sallie Mae, America’s largest federal student loan service, cheated active duty members of the US Military by providing those loans at illegally high interest rates. An exclusive with hacker and notorious internet troll Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer discussing the overturning of his prison sentence after being charged with conspiracy under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Seattle City Councilwoman Shama Sawant highlights the ‘Fight for Fifteen’ campaign, a national call to action to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Finally, RT’s Sam Sacks tells how Boeing and Hilary Clinton have had a very close and beneficial relationship, and why it will continue for years to come.

Source: Breaking the Set 

The Failed War on Drugs and It's Impacts on Society

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

War on Drugs / Discussion
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Chris Hedges and Eugene Jarecki: The Failed War on Drugs and its many impacts on US Society

On April 4-5, of 2014 Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) hosted "Building a New Criminal Justice: Mobilizing Students for Reform," http://pace.princeton.edu/features/20... a conference at Princeton University. The conference enabled students to discuss how to "build and transition to a new system of criminal justice that prioritizes effectiveness, fairness, and humanity."

The conference, SPEAR http://pace.princeton.edu/node/816 created by a network of students who are interested and involved in criminal justice system reforms. One of the featured speakers on late Friday April 4, was Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki in discussion together after the filmmaker screening of his award-winning film The House I Live In, http://www.thehouseilivein.org/see-th... a documentary about the rise of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration's effect on society.

After the film, both Chris Hedges http://www.nationinstitute.org/fellow... and Eugene Jarecki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_J... spoke for over 80 minutes with the first 20 minutes focusing on commentary of the film and the remainder of the time a very thought provocative and educational series of Q&A regarding the film, its production and insights from an wonderful pairing of two men into issues facing our criminal justice system and society as well. They look at of how and why we got where we are and the impacts of the drug "class" warfare has impacted millions of lives in the US.

Source: Youtube