Banks and Drugs II

Do you need any more reasons to be pissed off at banks, part 2?  Previously, we discussed their decades long cozy relationship with drug cartels and the CIA?  The Golden Triangle, Iran-Contra Affair, Mena, Arkansas, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela National Guard, etc.
This time we take a look at the recent "settlement" for the third largest bank in the world and their decades long relationship with Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. 
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Police Violence in Cleveland

After a quick discussion of the role of the national corporate media in shaping our day to day reality of the world around us, we get into the horrific story of 13 Cleveland Police officers shooting 137 rounds at two unarmed citizens after a 20+ minutes car chase - killing both of them. [Click to Listen]

Cooper Union Occupation

Students are taking matters into their own hands at Cooper Union in NYC.  12 students are occupying the "clock tower" in order to keep the tuition free and oust the current president of the university. [Click to Listen]

F**k Keystone XL Pipeline

As I type this, there are activists sitting in tress stands in Texas trying the best to hold off construction on the Keystone XL pipeline.  Keep up with their actions at the Tar Sands Blockade website.  Also, we take a look at their 10 reasons to oppose the pipeline. [Click to Listen]

Cleveland 5 Update

Three of the five people arrested in Cleveland this past spring find out how long they will be spending in jail.  The presiding judge in this case keeps a relatively cool head in the face of the US Attorney's office pushing for upwards of 30 years for some of the defendants.  "It doesn't make any sense whatsoever," the judges said in an interview.  He went on to call the tough sentencing sought by the prosecution as "grotesque". [Click to Listen]

Banks and Drugs

Do you need any more reasons to be pissed off at banks?  How about their decades long cozy relationship with drug cartels and the CIA?  The Golden Triangle, Iran-Contra Affair, Mena, Arkansas, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela National Guard (to name just a few from a Wikipedia page). [Click to Listen]

Occupy Sandy and Rolling Jubilee

The Occupy movement in NYC has two fascinating off shoots that we take a look at today.  The first is Rolling Jubilee and The Debt Resistors Operation Manual.  Actual financial help for those in need!  The second is the OWS response to Superstorm Sandy, Occupy Sandy, and how organizers are being more effective in their own neighborhood than the Red Cross could ever hope to be.  The show ends with an audio clip from Naomi Klein discussing how Occupy Sandy relates to her ideas on disaster capitalism. [Click to Listen]