Author: Wade

Philly.com – by R. Seth Williams

Pennsylvania’s asset-forfeiture laws, which turn property used in drug deals into funding for law enforcement, are designed to make Philadelphians safer and to make it harder for drug dealers to do their illegal work.

Drug dealers and the social rot that comes with their trade ruin neighborhoods – they bring addiction, illegal firearms, death, despair, and destruction. With our growing epidemic of prescription-drug and heroin overdoses, making it harder for dealers to operate by removing their profits and profit motive is a good thing.   Continue reading “City must keep forfeiture laws”

CNN – by Barbara Starr

A Republican congressional source told CNN that the Israelis are asking lawmakers to approve more than $300 million in additional U.S. funding for missile defense systems, above the $155 million the Pentagon is already requesting from Congress.   Continue reading “Israel asks Congress for missile defense aid despite public row”

The Atlantic – by ALANA SEMUELS

LAS VEGAS—There’s been a lot of hubbub about the effort tech whiz Tony Hsieh and his crack team of acolytes have put into revitalizing downtown Las Vegas.

In case you missed it, Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, in January 2012 announced that he was putting $350 million into the Downtown Project, which would fund new businesses in an economically depressed part of the city seven miles north of the Las Vegas Strip. He also wanted to create a tech hub in a city better known for gambling and tourism, which some journalists dubbed the newest “techtopia.”   Continue reading “$350 Million Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas”

Sputnik

Big money has long had a major part in politics, and the 2016 presidential race is no different.

No one has formally announced their intentions to run for the nation’s highest elected office, but the presumed front-runners for the two major political parties are already following the money and shaking the trees over at Goldman Sachs in New York, the wealthiest and most successful financial institution in Wall Street history.   Continue reading “The 2016 Money Race: Jeb & Hillary Fight for Goldman Sachs Cash”

Press TV

Israel has ordered several Palestinian families in the occupied East  al-Quds (Jerusalem) to destroy their houses as part of the regime’s settlement expansion policies.

The Israeli Civil Administration has told Palestinian families in the Khillet al-Raheb area to demolish their homes immediately or the Tel Aviv regime will do it at its own expense.   Continue reading “Israel orders demolition of over a dozen Palestinian houses”

Counter Punch – by Barry Lando

It’s astonishing that in the breathless run-up to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s appearance before a joint session of the U.S. Congress to warn of a nuclear-armed Iran, no one—politicians, editorial writers, media pundits—point out that there already is a nuclear power in the Middle East—Netanyahu’s Israel.

Estimates are that Israel has about 80 nukes, roughly the same number as Pakistan and India.   Continue reading “Netanyahu’s Arsenal of Nukes – The Israeli Elephant in the US Congress”

Sputnik

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States will deploy personnel by the end of this week to train the Ukrainian national guard, US 173rd Airborne Brigade Commander Colonel Michael Foster said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on Monday.

“Before this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion minus… to the Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces for the fight that’s taking place,” Foster stated. “What we’ve got laid out is six United States companies that will be training six Ukrainian companies throughout the summer.”   Continue reading “US to Deploy Six National Guard Companies to Ukraine This Week”

CNN – by Michael Pearson, Holly Yan, and Sara Sidner

Anthony Blackburn said he was perplexed that four officers could not subdue the man but instead shot and killed him during the incident on Sunday.   Continue reading “Witness who took video: Man killed by LAPD didn’t reach for officer’s gun”

Global Research – by Anthony Bellchambers

Binyamin Netanyahu – AIPAC’s putative US President – will, next Tuesday, threaten both Houses of Congress that he is prepared to deploy his 400 nuclear warheads to ensure Israeli dominance of the Middle East unless Washington and the world accede to his demands against Iran (and Gaza and Lebanon and Turkey). A status quo that recalls the demands of the German National Socialists, in 1936, prior to their occupation and domination of Europe that instigated World War 2.    Continue reading “Binyamin Netanyahu, AIPAC’s Putative American President, Plans to Threaten the US Congress”

Press TV

US Secretary of State John Kerry has reminded American officials that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is against a nuclear deal with Iran, was also in the US in 2002 to push for the invasion of Iraq.

Netanyahu is set to use his next week’s address to a joint session of Congress to condemn a potential nuclear agreement with Iran.   Continue reading “Kerry warns Congress about Netanyahu’s Iran speech, says Bibi pushed US to attack Iraq”