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U.S. Study Finds Immigrants Imprisoned to Boost Prison-Corporation Profits
Eric Zuesse
93% of the people who are locked up in the U.S. in order to meet the minimum legal requirements for the number of people who must be locked up on possible violations of U.S. immigration laws, are locked in for-profit prisons, which are owned by corporations that heavily fund a few politicians, including Hillary Clinton.
That 93% finding was published on June 20th, in a study by the Center for Constitutional Rights, titled, “Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigrant Dragnet”.
Ghita Schwartz, Senior Staff Attorney for CCR, said, in releasing the report: “Almost all guaranteed minimums are found in facilities that contract with private prison companies, and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] actively collaborates with these companies to keep details of their contracts secret.”
On 28 April 2015, the Washington Post published an article, "How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about: Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries.” It failed to include one crucial fact: Hillary Clinton is the other.
Sanders in New York
Stephen Lendman
His so-called “where we go from here speech” fell short, repeating warmed-over themes highlighted throughout his campaign - ones he largely failed to support during 30 years in public office.
His record shows a deplorable habit of saying one thing, then doing another, destroying his credibility. His populist rhetoric rings hollow.
Days earlier, he acknowledged Clinton becoming Democrat party presumptive standard bearer, saying “(i)t doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to be determining the scope of the convention.”
Endorsing her is virtually certain. He’ll choose the time and place to announce it - betraying his loyal supporters, backing an unindicted war criminal/racketeer, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt his so-called crusade for change is phony.
Clinton’s National Security Strategy: Endless Wars of Aggression
Stephen Lendman
Her deplorable record speaks for itself, publicly supporting all US wars of choice, naked aggression against nonbelligerent states, raping them, responsible for mass slaughter, destruction and appalling human misery.
Don’t let her deceptive rhetoric fool you. Urging escalated war on ISIS ignores its US creation along with likeminded terrorist groups - used as imperial foot soldiers.
America’s phony war on terror is a pretext for state terror, targeting sovereign independent nations worldwide, justifying homeland repression, turning planet earth into a battleground, risking its destruction.
The possibility of a Clinton presidency should terrify everyone. She deplores peace and stability, wants America leading aggressively in waging global wars - not to “defeat ISIS” or “disrupt and dismantle the growing terrorist infrastructure…around the world.”
Retired NATO Commander Breedlove Still Irresponsibly Fear-Mongering
Stephen Lendman
General Philip Breedlove stepped down as NATO commander in May, retiring from active duty service, continuing to hype nonexistent threats.
In an article titled “NATO’s Next Act, How to Handle Russia and Other Threats,” he failed to explain the Alliance faces none except ones it invents as pretexts for imperial aggression.
America is the world’s leading “transnational terrorist,” Breedlove in his former capacity as NATO chief a key reason why.
He turned truth on its head claiming nonexistent “Russian aggression (and) de facto invasion of eastern Ukraine,” adding “there is much more that the United States and its allies must do - above all, improve their abilities to deter the (invented) Russian threat…”
Preserving Syrian Sovereignty Essential Says Putin
Stephen Lendman
Hezbollah leader Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah once called Syria the “linchpin of resistance” against US/NATO/Israeli regional imperialism.
If it falls, Iran’s turn awaits. “Palestine will be lost…” Lebanon’s sovereignty will be jeopardized. “(A) bleak future awaits the peoples of the region.”
Anglo-Zionism’s rage to dominate represents the greatest threat since the Nakba, he stressed, promising committed resistance against it.
From the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin expressed a similar sentiment, saying “(t)he most important thing is to avoid (Syria’s) breakup. And if the situation continues to develop as it does today, the collapse is inevitable, and this is the worst case scenario.”
Diversionary Congressional Gun Control Debate
Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, AP News said “Republican leaders had agreed to hold votes on Democrat-backed measures to expand background checks and prevent suspected terrorists from acquiring guns.”
They’re almost as easy to buy as toothpaste. America’s racist drug laws haven’t curbed their availability and easy access.
The nation awash in weapons reflects its longstanding culture of violence, mostly state-sponsored - waging wars in the name of peace every year since the republic’s inception, at home and/or abroad, largely against invented enemies, claiming countless millions of lives.
Paedophilia and Tribal Loyalty
Gilad Atzmon
The Holocaust Memorial Trust and the BOD have yet to disassociate themselves from Lord Janner and his alleged history of multiple child sex abuse. Seems that tribal loyalty is so firmly entrenched that it far surpasses ethics or compassion.
Now there is yet another case of tribal loyalty that is inconsistent with British values and law. This time a Jewish children’s summer camp is the chosen locale.
The Jewish Chronicle reports today the “owner of a (Jewish) children's summer camp, who is accused of failing to act when naked images of three- and four-year-old girls were found on his business partner's phone, has chosen not to give evidence.”
The prosecution claims that Tal Landsman, the owner of the Jewish camp, “willfully exposed children to harm by not immediately reporting his best friend Ben Lewis to the authorities.”
Landsman and Lewis were co-founders of LL Camps in Bushey, Hertfordshire. The camp was closed down in August 2015 after an employee who had seen the images reported Lewis to the police.
Kerry Meets with State Department Hawks on Syria
Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed dozens of unnamed State Department staffers urging stepped up US military action to oust Assad, greater naked aggression than already - wanting pro-Western puppet governance replacing sovereign Syrian independence.
John Kerry expressed sympathy with their position without publicly endorsing it. On Tuesday, he met with “eight mid level Foreign Service officers,” according to The New York Times - hawkish neocons among dozens publicly opposing Obama’s Syria policy.
Ad Hominem Campaigning
Stephen Lendman
Candidates attacking each other goes with the territory. Trump and Clinton appear heading for new mean-spirited lows.
The race for the White House promises perhaps to be the nastiest in memory - back-and-forth ad hominem bashing in lieu of straight talk on issues mattering most.
America is a hugely corrupted money-controlled one-party state with two wings, governance serving everyone equitably a nonstarter, democracy pure fantasy.
Voters in November get to choose between the most widely ever reviled presidential aspirants in US history - unfit for any public office. However things turn out, America’s deplorable state will worsen. Pure evil best describes it, humanity’s greatest threat. Endless wars will continue, wealth, power and privilege exclusively served, popular needs and interests be damned - likely more than ever before, nonbelievers facing police state harshness.
Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Anal Stage
Gilad Atzmon
Can you imagine the Archbishop of Canterbury using the word ‘asshole?’ Can you imagine a supreme Islamic cleric referring to an intellectual in this manner? Rabbi Michael Lerner, the man who used Muhammad Ali’s funeral as a Jewish propaganda podium, wrote to me yesterday:
“Wake up, asshole--you are spreading lies and deceit about me.”
The ‘progressive’ rabbi describes me as that place where the sun never shines. I asked the Rabbi for permission to reprint his entire e mail to me but for the obvious reason the rabbi who claims to ‘represent American Jews’ kept silent.
In my article ‘Rabbi Lerner - Master of Compassion or Master of Deceit?’ I exposed Rabbi Lerner as a con artist. I quoted Rabbi Lerner accurately and in context.
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