Casinos are booming thanks to state governments' need to exploit gambling addicts for revenue

http://www.alternet.org/print/hard-times-usa/casinos-are-booming-thanks-state-governments-need-exploit-gambling-addicts-revenue

...casinos make about 90% of their profit from problem gamblers...

Inside America's Dirty Wars--an excerpt from the book by Jeremy Schahill

http://www.thenation.com/article/173980/inside-americas-dirty-wars

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us have Lost $669 billion

http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/rich-have-gained-56-trillion-recovery-while-rest-us-have-lost-669-billion

Here's why the entire economic recovery went into the pockets of the rich. The bailouts went to Wall Street, not to Main Street.

The Great Florida Experiment

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/florida-tea-party-backlash-rick-scott

(I did not realize that Gov. Scott did this much damage in Florida--scott and the tea partiers)

Kids warehoused in nursing homes. Leaky sewers. Mosquitos unleashed. Gov't money refused for many worthwhile projects: high speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando, bike lanes, regulations to save endangered manatees, Everglades restoration, expansion of Medicare, mosquito control, etc., etc.,

America's Focuso n Terrorism blinds us to everyday violence and suffering

http://www.alternet.org/print/americas-focus-terrorism-blinds-us-everyday-violence-and-suffering
The Boston Marathon bombing...why is America's obsession with evil so selective?

Kerry's Keystone Decision, Nation Magazine, Bill McKibben

http://www.thenation.com/article/173661/john-kerrys-fateful-decision-keystone-pipeline#

Sec. of State John Kerry has been arrested one time in his life, and as it happens, I was there—at least until my mom took me home to bed.

Kimani Gray: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

http://www.thenation.com/article/173454/kimani-gray-guilty-until-proven-innocent

The only thing that people agree on is that on Saturday, March 9, 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot seven times by 2 NY Police Department officers in Brooklyn. Four hit him the front and side of the body, three in the back.