Nov 21 2013
Why the JP Morgan Chase $13 Billion Settlement Is No Deterrent to Financial Crimes
In a major settlement with the government, JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay $13 billion for selling faulty mortgages. Even though the award is the largest ever paid out by a single firm, and is significantly larger than what BP paid for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, analysts are saying the firm probably got off lightly.
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While LAUSD is cutting school librarians and nurses, having trouble maintaining their aging buildings and suffering from notoriously large class sizes, it has decided to spend $1 billion handing out iPads to all 600,000 students enrolled in the school system. The project which is rolling out in phases has already seen its share of problems. The devices cost the district …
Steven Biko once said, “The most powerful weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” What Biko meant was that when those who are subjugated, internalize the opinions of those who are oppressing them then they will become part and parcel of that system and even go so far as to defend the system that oppresses them. 
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, is sitting in for Rose Aguilar. Jensen, who is an author and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Transparency is not a two way street for the US Government. While the American Government spies with impunity on US citizens, foreign governments, the United Nations and any other group it deems suspicious, Americans who try to monitor and expose the spying are harshly punished. On Friday, Jeremy Hammond, a 28 year old hacktivist member of Anonymous was given a …
Despite the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change happening in Warsaw, Poland has seen little progress, now in its second week. The usual tense dynamics between the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Developed nations like the US, and Emerging Economies like India and China are dominating proceedings. 
The notion that men and women are starkly different from one another and that that conflict between the sexes is so inherent there’s no point fighting it, is deeply ingrained in our culture. In fact, that ‘Men are From Mars, and Women are from Venus’ is no longer just a book title – it is a popular metaphor in our …
