Mar 01 2010
Banks Manage to Sidestep Credit Card Reform
An act passed by Congress and signed into law by the President last May sought to regulate rampant abuses by the credit card industry. That law just went into effect after a nine-month waiting period that in effect enabled companies to adjust their rules and policies. The changes were designed to to bypass the most stringent regulatory measures such …
An act passed by Congress and signed into law by the President last May sought to regulate rampant abuses by the credit card industry. That law just went into effect after a nine-month waiting period that in effect enabled companies to adjust their rules and policies. The changes were designed to to bypass the most stringent regulatory measures such …
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An annual gathering of conservatives in Northwest Washington revealed that the Republican Party is in serious trouble apparently from members of its own base. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in mid-February attracted more than ten thousand people, many of them touting extreme right wing rhetoric including expressing support for torture policies and for wiretapping citizens. CPAC attendees promised to …
In one of the first acts of non-violent resistance of the civil rights movement, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st 1955. It was an act that launched a year long successful boycott of the bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr, and was among …
Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Angela Y. Davis, studied philosophy at Brandeis University, one of only three black students in her freshman class. She went on to live in France and Germany where she became involved in radical movements, eventually returning to the United States. Back in the US Angela Davis joined the Communist Party and in 1969 became an acting assistant professor …
Newly unearthed images by the legendary Cuban photographer Alberto Korda show Fidel Castro and Che Guevara playing golf and fishing in military uniform and riding on the back of a vehicle heavily armed. The photos are to be auctioned off for thousands of dollars. Alberto Korda is best known for taking a photo of Argentine doctor-turned-revolutionary Che Guevara, that has become the most reproduced photo …
A new study by scientists at the University of Chicago is looking for a correlation between childhood obesity and television advertising. The federally funded study is the first attempt to investigate whether the barrage of television advertising of food influences children’s eating habits. The same researchers previously found that 98% of food ads viewed by …
Pacifica Radio Archives 60th Anniversary Mp3 CD collectionThe sounds of Black History as preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. Today as we begin to wrap up this pledge drive, we spend the hour exploring the Archives’ 60th Anniversary Black History collection, much of it newly preserved and digitized through a special grant from the American Archives Pilot Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Many …
A number of scientific institutions including the NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the World Meteorological Organization, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that 2009 was one of the warmest years on record and that the decade 2000-2009 was warmer than the decade before it, which was warmer than the decade before it. Yet, conservative naysayers continue to ignore the overwhelming …
A report released this past Tuesday has deemed the earthquake that devastated Haiti last month as likely the “most destructive natural disaster in modern times.” The description was placed in the context of the tremor’s impact on the population and the economy of the western hemisphere’s poorest country. The Inter-American Development Bank, in the findings of its report, placed the cost of reconstruction to be …
