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Saturday, November 17
17.Nov.2012 - New Gaza Conflict, Women Peace Activists, Rolling Jubilee, Abortion in Ireland, Emergency Unemployment Benefits, War Crimes, Katrina Myth, Walmart Workers Speak Out, BP to Pay Billions for Gulf Spill, Climate Dialogue
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A Closer Look at New Gaza Conflict
The new round of violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza is receiving the typical U.S. media treatment, blaming Hamas and absolving Israel. But the origins of the latest clashes are much more complex than that simplistic and one-sided version, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
Gaza vs. Israel: Legitimate and Illegitimate Use of Violence in the Western Discourse
We hear news that the Israeli state has called up 75,000 reserves and is planning for a ground invasion. I continue to hear loud explosions of air raids surround our home in Saftawi, Gaza. The constant buzzing of the Israeli drone has become part of the backdrop of this weapons battle. I hear news that Hamas shot down two Israeli F-16s. I hear news that an Israeli drone was shot down late last night. I hear the rockets continue to be launched from locations around Gaza and reach the outskirts of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The shape of these two forms of violence shows how a state is able to launch a war and how a non-state movement is able to resist it. As bombs continue to rain down on Gaza and rockets continue to break the Iron Dome and make it into Israel, a review of dominant mainstream media sites in the West and Western governments reveals a very skewed understanding on the (il)-legitimate use of violence.
Israel's Terror in Gaza
In honour of the latest installment of homicidal Israeli behaviour in Gaza, the Twitter account of the Israel Defence Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) has played host to a flurry of activity.
Women Peace Activists Demand an End to Attacks in Gaza and Israel
MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, condemns the growing violence that has killed at least 18 people in the past days: 15 in Gaza and three in Israel. We assert that all attacks against civilians must end immediately.
Egyptian PM Visits Gaza, Condemns Israeli Assault
In a symbolic show of support for Palestinians under assault by the Israeli military and with hopes of brokering a possible ceasefire, Egypt's prime minister, Hisham Kandil, arrived in Gaza on Friday following nearly a week of escalating violence in the battered enclave.
Rolling Jubilee: Over $5 Million of Debt Erased, and Counting
Successful kickoff for 'People's Bailout' campaign
Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian woman living in Ireland, went to the hospital when she first began to miscarry — but thanks to Ireland’s stringent abortion ban, medical professionals denied her repeated requests to quickly terminate the pregnancy because they could still detect a fetal heartbeat.
When Does Israel/Palestine Violence Start?
Military attacks and other violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel have resulted at this point in over a dozen deaths, most of them Palestinians, and sparked fears of an Israeli ground invasion similar to the 2008-09 assault that claimed over 1,000 Palestinian lives.
Who Started Gaza Conflict? Well, the U.S. Says…
Who started the latest round of violence in the Middle East? This pretty remarkable exchange between the host and a reporter on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight show (11/15/12) tells us that no one can really say for sure, but the U.S government will tell you what they think:There Are Significant Business Costs to Replacing Employees
Congress Should Extend Emergency Unemployment Benefits
An Israeli minister has called for the army to bomb Gaza until the population flees en masse into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, and for water and electricity supplies to be cut, a clear case of incitement to war crimes.
http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah161112.htm
Building on the deep community connections forged by standing alongside (among others) rent strikers, immigrant workers, and those impacted by Hurricane Sandy, one faction of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has conjured up an innovative new outreach idea: A Rolling Debt Jubilee.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz161112.htm
ACLU files class action lawsuit over mandatory immigrant detention
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Thursday on behalf of New Jersey immigrants challenging mandatory detention procedures. The policy in question is 8 USC § 1226(c) [text], which mandates the detention of noncitizens during deportation proceedings, and such noncitizens are not entitled to a bond hearing, even if they pose no danger or flight risk.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/11/aclu-files-class-action-lawsuit-over-mandatory-immigrant-detention.php
Continuing Devastating U.S. War Crimes
During the tumultuous months of the presidential campaign, most Americans heard nothing of this report in the (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune (that originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times): "To live under drones is to live in terror." Based on a study by Stanford University and New York University, it was written by Jennifer Gibson, who was one of the on-site researchers of this startling account of the CIA pilotless drones' killings in Pakistan under the enthusiastic authority of President Barack Obama.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33051.htm
If There Needs To Be An Investigation, It Should Be About Why The FBI Was Reading Certain Emails
While some have noted the irony of General Petreaus being taken down due to online surveillance methods that he should have been aware of, the case is bringing growing attention to an issue many of us have been discussing for a while: how easy it is for law enforcement to snoop through your email. We raised the question already, but as more info comes out, the whole thing is looking that much more questionable.
Nearly 50 million living in poverty in US
The number of people living in poverty in the United States rose last year to 49.7 million, based on a new measure that provides a fuller picture of poverty than that previously reported by U.S. Census Bureau data. The revised poverty rate of 16.1 percent is up more than a percentage point from the 15 percent figure reported by the government in September.
“I Think it Has Got to do With Iran, Actually.”Chief Rabbi Caught Off Guard With Comment on Israel's Attack On Gaza
Walmart workers speak out
Breaking Truce, Israeli Strikes Kill Hamas Military Chief, Palestinian Civilians in Gaza
BP to Pay US Billions for Gulf Spill
Naomi Klein: Sandy's Devastation Opens Space for Climate Change Action, Progressive Reform
"Climate dialogue runs aground"
(Al Jazeera, "Inside Story: US 2012")Israel’s War Crimes: Completely Burnt Palestinian Child
"Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes On Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis
DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK:ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST NOTORIOUS MILITIAS
Friday, July 20
Time for a Maximum Wage
14 July 12
Reader Supported News | Perspective
uring a February 1934 radio address, when unemployment and economic inequality were both rampant, Louisiana Senator Huey Long said, "We do not propose to say that there shall be no rich men. We do not ask to divide the wealth. We only propose that, when one man gets more than he and his children and his children's children can spend or use in their lifetimes, then we shall say that such person has his share."
There is no state in the union where someone working a minimum-wage job for 40 hours a week, or $15,080 a year, can afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market value.
At the opposite end of the financial spectrum, Mitt Romney made $15,080 every 6 hours in 2010, when he grossed over $21 million in income. It would take a minimum-wage worker 1,436 years and 10 months to make what Mitt Romney made in 2010.
If that hasn't sunk in yet, I'll say it differently. To make as much as Mitt Romney made in one year, a minimum-wage worker working 40 hours a week for $7.25 an hour would have to start work during the Liang Dynasty and work all the way to the present day. Assuming an average life expectancy of 65 years, since minimum-wage workers can't get the same nutrition and health care that everyone else can, that's 22 entire lifetimes of nonstop minimum-wage work, from infancy to death, just to make what one man made in one year.
Guys as rich as Mitt Romney make money for having money. He doesn't simply work for a living, but rather acquires wealth from investments already made with previously accumulated wealth. While a minimum-wage worker pays a third of their income in sales, property, payroll and excise taxes, Mitt Romney pays just a 13.9% tax rate on more than half of his income, because it comes from capital gains, instead of good old-fashioned hard work.
Congress is debating a bill to raise the minimum wage from a woefully inadequate $7.25 an hour to a slightly less inadequate $10 an hour over a two-year period, and indexing it to the consumer price index so it rises annually as the cost of living goes up. It's a good bill that puts a little more money in the pockets of hard workers just trying to stay above water, which mean more demand for local small businesses in the neighborhoods where these workers live, which means economic expansion and steady job growth in communities that need it the most.
But debating wouldn't be the right word to use. Since the Republican-controlled House refuses to even bring any bill up for debate that doesn't exclusively benefit their millionaire campaign donors in the financial, pharmaceutical, insurance and fossil-fuel industries, the minimum-wage bill is predicted to sink like a stone in a lake. House Republicans' attitude toward the bill can best be summed up by Republican Bill Young of Florida, who told someone to "get a job" after he asked whether the Congressman would support an increase in the minimum wage.
Getting by in America isn't done by just having a job; I've personally held four part-time jobs at one point just to pay $450 a month in rent, keep food in my fridge and gas in the tank. 20% of those on food stamps have jobs, but just don't make enough to feed their families without government assistance. It isn't that those with minimum-wage jobs on food stamps aren't working hard enough, they're just not being paid more than enough to stay alive through the next week.
On the other hand, corporate profits are at an all-time high, while wages are at an all-time low. The gap between the average pay of a CEO and the average worker is more than 231 to 1. While more and more Americans are struggling just to meet basic needs, the compensation of corporate executives has never been higher, nor have their lifestyles been any more extravagant. While a worker laid off from a company that Bain Capital shackled with debt and outsourced pays taxes on their unemployment compensation, Mitt Romney gets a $77,000 tax break from his dressage horse. It's likely that a Mitt Romney presidency would mean a continuation of excessive wealth inequality and tax loopholes for the richest 1%, and the struggle of the average worker to get by would worsen.
The concept of a maximum wage is in the style of Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" radio addresses from the Great Depression. It won't make rich Americans poor, nor will it call for an equal distribution of wealth. A maximum wage would simply be legislation that states an executive shouldn't make more than 10 times what their average worker makes. A CEO can still make $5 million dollars a year if they wish. It just means their average worker has to make at least $500,000 a year.
It's more likely that if a maximum-wage law was in place, it would simply mean CEOs would have to make do with a slightly lesser compensation package that would still be more than enough to live a luxurious lifestyle. And the average worker would be paid a comfortable living wage that would be enough to afford a home big enough for their family, enough to have plenty of food on the table, and enough to put away for their children's college education, retirement, vacations, and the like.
America used to be a country where one income could support a family with multiple children, and still be enough to live comfortably. It's time to treat workers with a decent wage that allows for families to sustain themselves and live with dignity. And if that means a few CEOs have to make do with a few million less, that's a sacrifice 99% of us are okay with.
Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. You can contact Carl at carl@rsnorg.org, and listen to his online radio talk show, Swag The Dog, at blogtalkradio.com/swag-the-dog.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
Wednesday, June 27
The World's Most Ethical (WME) Companies
WME HONOREES
The World's Most Ethical (WME) Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically" and translate those words into action. WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today.
This year, a record 145 companies made the list, which includes more than three dozen industries, from aerospace to wind power, with 43 of the WME winners headquartered outside the U.S.
Since the list's inception, 23 companies have made the list all six years including: Aflac, American Express, Fluor, General Electric, Milliken & Company, Patagonia, Rabobank and Starbucks, among others.
2012 WORLD'S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES
| Aerospace and Defense | |
|---|---|
| Rockwell Collins |  USA |
| The Aerospace Corporation | USA |
| Agriculture | |
| Ethical Fruit Company Ltd |  UK |
| Apparel | |
| Comme Il Faut |  Israel |
| Gap Inc | USA |
| Patagonia | USA |
| Timberland | USA |
| Automotive | |
| Cummins Inc. | USA |
| Ford Motor Company | USA |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | USA |
| Banking | |
| National Australia Bank |  Australia |
| Old National Bank | USA |
| Rabobank |  Netherlands |
| Standard Chartered Bank | UK |
| Westpac Group | Australia |
| Business Services | |
| Accenture |  Ireland |
| Dun & Bradstreet | USA |
| Noblis | USA |
| Paychex, Inc. | USA |
| William E. Connor & Associates Ltd. |  Hong Kong |
| Chemicals | |
| Ecolab, Inc. | USA |
| Pantheon Enterprises | USA |
| Computer Hardware | |
| Hitachi Data Systems | USA |
| Intel Corporation | USA |
| Computer Software | |
| Adobe Systems | USA |
| Microsoft | USA |
| Salesforce.com | USA |
| Symantec Corporation | USA |
| Teradata Corporation | USA |
| Wipro Ltd |  India |
| Construction | |
| CRH plc | Ireland |
| Granite Construction Inc | USA |
| Consumer Electronics | |
| Electrolux |  Sweden |
| Ricoh |  Japan |
| Texas Instruments | USA |
| Xerox Corporation | USA |
| Consumer Products | |
| Colgate-Palmolive Company | USA |
| Hasbro, Inc. | USA |
| Henkel AG & Co. KGaA |  Germany |
| Kao Corporation | Japan |
| Kimberly-Clark Corporation | USA |
| Diversified Industries | |
| General Electric Co. | USA |
| E-commerce | |
| eBay Inc. | USA |
| Electronics | |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | USA |
| Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | USA |
| Premier Farnell plc | UK |
| Rockwell Automation | USA |
| Energy and Utilities: Natural Gas | |
| Encana Corporation |  Canada |
| NiSource Inc. | USA |
| Sempra Energy | USA |
| Spectra Energy Corp | USA |
| Energy and Utilities: Electric | |
| EDP Energias de Portugal |  Portugal |
| ENMAX Corporation | Canada |
| National Grid | UK/USA |
| Energy and Utilities: Wind | |
| Vestas Wind |  Denmark |
| Energy and Utlities: Water | |
| Northumbrian Water Group | UK |
| Energy: Oil | |
| Alyeska Pipeline Service Company | USA |
| Statoil |  Norway |
| Engineering and Design | |
| AECOM Technology Corp | USA |
| CH2M HILL | USA |
| Fluor Corporation | USA |
| Parsons Corporation | USA |
| Environmental Services | |
| Waste Management | USA |
| Financial Services | |
| American Express | USA |
| NYSE Euronext | USA/Netherlands |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group | USA |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans | USA |
| TSYS | USA |
| Food and Beverage | |
| Kellogg Company | USA |
| PepsiCo | USA |
| Solae, LLC | USA |
| Stonyfield | USA |
| Food Service | |
| Aramark | USA |
| Forestry, Paper and Packaging | |
| International Paper | USA |
| SCA | Sweden |
| Stora Enso |  Finland |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | USA |
| Health and Beauty | |
| L’ORÉAL |  France |
| Natura Cosmeticos |  Brazil |
| Shiseido Co | Japan |
| Healthcare Services | |
| Baptist Health South Florida | USA |
| Hospital Corporation of America | USA |
| Novation | USA |
| Premier Inc | USA |
| University Hospitals | USA |
| Industrial Manufacturing | |
| Deere & Company | USA |
| Eaton Corporation | USA |
| Honeywell International Inc. | USA |
| Kennametal Inc. | USA |
| Milliken & Company | USA |
| Schneider Electric | France |
| The Timken Company | USA |
| Insurance: Brokerage | |
| Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. | USA |
| Insurance: Health | |
| Aflac Inc. | USA |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina | USA |
| Blue Shield of California | USA |
| Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation | USA |
| Insurance: Property and Casualty | |
| Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. | Japan |
| The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies | USA |
| Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | Japan |
| Insurance: Reinsurance | |
| Swiss Re |  Switzerland |
| Leisure and Hospitality | |
| Holland America Line | USA |
| Kimpton Hotels | USA |
| Marriott International, Inc. | USA |
| The Rezidor Hotel Group |  Belgium |
| Seabourn | USA |
| Media | |
| Thomson Reuters | US/UK |
| Time Warner Inc. | USA |
| Medical Devices | |
| Becton Dickinson | USA |
| Coloplast | Denmark |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | USA |
| Royal Philips | Netherlands |
| Metals and Mining | |
| Alcoa | USA |
| The Mosaic Company | USA |
| Tata Steel Ltd | India |
| Umicore |  Belgium |
| Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology | |
| Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation | USA |
| Professional, Scientific and Technical Services | |
| Concurrent Technologies Corporation | USA |
| SRA International, Inc. | USA |
| Real Estate | |
| British Land plc | UK |
| Jones Lang LaSalle Inc | USA |
| Realogy Corporation | USA |
| Restaurants and Cafes | |
| Starbucks Coffee Company | USA |
| Retail: Food Stores | |
| Kesko | Finland |
| Safeway Inc. | USA |
| SONAE | Portugal |
| The Co-operative Group | UK |
| Wegmans | USA |
| Whole Foods Market, Inc. | USA |
| Retail: General | |
| Costco | USA |
| Marks and Spencer | UK |
| Target | USA |
| Retail: Specialty | |
| Best Buy Co., Inc. | USA |
| OfficeMax | USA |
| Petco | USA |
| Ten Thousand Villages | USA |
| Staffing Services | |
| ManpowerGroup | USA |
| Telecommunications Equipment | |
| Cisco Systems | USA |
| Juniper Networks | USA |
| Telecommunications Services | |
| Portugal Telecom | Portugal |
| SingTel |  Singapore |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | USA |
| Transportation and Logistics | |
| Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha | Japan |
| Panama Canal Authority |  Panama |
| UPS | USA |
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