The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
Amy Goodman, David Goodman
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 140130799X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Now in paperback, the national bestseller that challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has silenced America n Exception to the Rulers, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman exposes the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite-an elite that is bolstered by large media conglomerates who obscure the truth. Her goal is 'to go where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority,' and she is fond of quoting Margaret Mead: 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.' This book informs and empowers people to act on that principle.
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130 THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULERS people in state prisons increased by 30 percent. During the same period, the number held in federal BCIS (Bureau of Customs and Immigration Services) and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) custody increased by 275 percent. The explosion in immigrant prisoners follows the special registrations for immigrants from twenty-five countries that started in November 2002 and ran to January 2004. The federal government’s 2003 budget for locking up immigrants was.
On October 30, NPR ran an on-air correction. Host Robert Siegel stated: “We erroneously reported on All Things Considered that the size of the crowd was fewer than 10,000. While Park Service employees gave no official estimate, it is clear that the crowd was substantially larger than that. . . . We apologize for the error.” After Democracy Now! ran a story on the rally article discrepancies, producer Kris Abrams asked a Times editor, “Why didn’t you print a correction stating that your first.