Not much of a diary here, just a link to an article by Pepe Escobar that I think warrants reading. That said, et voila'
What the BRICS plus Germany are really up to? — RT Op-Edge

Good morning 99percenters!

I generally don’t buy hardcover books anymore unless I know the author but I’m going to make an exception for former President Jimmy Carter’s newest book.

Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Carter's "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety" will be published July 7.

The book will include his thoughts on his domestic and international travels over the past three decades, on the presidents who succeeded him and on world leaders he has known.

Two weeks ago there was a riot at the Willacy County Correctional Center in south Texas.
The riot originally started as a protest against inadequate medical care. Willacy is operated by the Management and Training Corp., a for-profit prison company from Utah. The prison housed illegal immigrants and non-violent criminals.

David Petraeus and mistress

Good morning 99percenters!

Did you know that March is Women’s History Month? The commemoration began in 1981 when Congress passed a resolution asking the President to proclaim “Women’s History Week" beginning March 7, 1982. Fast forward and since 1995 Presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

It was fifty years ago today that a protest march was organized in response to the fatal shooting of protester Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama State Trooper on February 17, 1965. Jackson was protesting outside the Dallas County, Alabama courthouse to bring national attention to the resistance of black voting. That march was intended to be a peaceful protest. The route went from Selma to Montgomery crossing the Alabama River over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

This evening's music features Chicago blues harmonica player and singer Lester "Mad Dog" Davenport.

We’ve all heard of “From Farm to Table,” a philosophy of locally producing goods and delivering them to local consumers. Now we have “From Prison to Table.” Yes. Prison. Incarceration. Farm prison to your table.

Do you ever shop at Whole Foods? Have you perused their seafood? Ever bought the tilapia? Turns out the tilapia are "farm raised" by inmates incarcerated in a Colorado prison facility.

Good morning 99percenters!

Some words of wisdom…

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
Jim Hightower

This evening's music features r&b singer and guitarist Barbara Lynn.