Rabbi Michael Lerner | Making Thanksgiving Real
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Reader Supported News
Lerner writes: "The greatest injustice to recall on Thanksgiving is the genocide perpetrated by European settlers against the Native Americans, successfully wiping out most of them over the course of some 200 years of ruthless expropriation of their lands, their means of livelihood and food, and their self-respect."
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Jesse Jackson | We Can Still Get Justice for Mike Brown
Jesse Jackson, Guardian UK
Jackson writes: "Now the jury is in: police can continue to shoot unarmed black youth without being prosecuted, and Darren Wilson says he has a "clear conscience". It is a national tragedy - a moral disgrace - but this is not the end."
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Goldman, BASF, HSBC Accused of Metals Price-Fixing in U.S. Lawsuit
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
Stempel reports: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Germany's BASF SE (BASFn.DE) and two other big platinum and palladium dealers have been sued in the United States in what the plaintiff's law firm called the first nationwide class action over alleged price-fixing of the metals."
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Workers Plan Biggest Black Friday Strike in Walmart History
Ned Resnikoff, Al Jazeera America
Resnikoff reports: "For the third Black Friday running, America's largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country. Workers and supporters affiliated with the union-backed labor campaign OUR Walmart say this Friday will be their biggest strike yet."
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Jeffrey Toobin | The Misuse of a Grand Jury
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "In sending Wilson's case to the grand jury, McCulloch technically turned over to them the decision about whether to prosecute. By submitting all the evidence to the grand jury, he added to the perception that this process represented an independent evaluation of the evidence."
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Applications for U.S. Jobless Aid Jump to 313,000
Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press
Rugaber reports: "The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits jumped last week, pushing total applications above 300,000 for the first time in nearly three months."
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Fracking Wells Guzzle Water in Drought-Stricken Regions
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios reports: "The fracking industry likes to minimize the sector's bottomless thirst for often-scarce water resources, saying it takes about 2-4 million gallons of water to frack the average well."
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