Mark Ames at Alternet has a brilliant piece on the Wall Street bailout, or as I like to call it, the Wall Street Coup:
"Editor's Note: The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall Street's pockets is illustrated vividly in Mark Ames' article below, which covers some very disturbing recent events in Alabama, where billionaires and banks are squeezing the locals so hard that they're literally going bankrupt just for flushing their toilets, where violence and the threat of violence are reaching a boiling point and where even the Posse Comitatus Act is under threat.
One of this year's more disturbing stories that were ignored was the illegal Army occupation of Samson, Alab., in March following a shooting spree that raged across two towns by a disgruntled worker, leaving 11 people dead.
As I wrote at the time, Michael McLendon, 27, went on a killing rampage following years of relentless corporate exploitation and harassment against him, his mother (whom he mercy-killed), and the entire rural Alabama region, which suffered like so many parts of rural America at the hands of billionaire goons like chicken oligarch Bo Pilgrim of Pilgrim's Pride notoriety.
One of the creepiest details to emerge in the shooting rampage were reports that troops from nearby Fort Rucker were brought into Samson and other surrounding areas to patrol the streets. This is a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, every freedom-loving American's worst nightmare."
Read the whole thing. I strongly urge you to read it and pass it along.
Excellent new investigative documentary on sex trafficking in the former Soviet bloc countries called The Price of Sex, funded by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Scott Horton continues his excellent coverage of political prosecutions (see my archives here, here, and here for my reporting and other coverage). This time he focuses on Charles Walker in Georgia.
Rachel D'Oro on Rep. Don Young's corruption.
