Wall Street-style predatory capitalism has taken over our education system, and it’s absolutely devastating a whole generation of young people.

When Latonya Suggs enrolled at Everest College, a branch of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges system, she thought she was taking the first step towards realizing her American Dream. But tens of thousands of dollars later, she realized that Everest wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

As Suggs told Democracy Now! recently, Everest didn't do anything to help her find a job after she graduated and was more interested in making money off her student loans than it was in making sure her degree was put to good use.

Latonya Suggs now has around $63,000 in student loan debt to her name, which is why last week she joined fourteen other former Corinthian Colleges students in refusing to pay back her student loans.

This is the nation’s very first student loan strike, and it comes just as the government takes action against Corinthian Colleges for running what it calls “an illegal predatory lending scheme.”

According to the government, “Corinthian lured tens of thousands of students to take out private loans to cover expensive tuition costs by advertising bogus job prospects and career services. [It] then used illegal debt collection tactics to strong-arm students into paying back those loans while still in school.” In other words, Corinthian Colleges isn’t an education company as much as it’s a bloodsucking debt collection agency

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Will SCOTUS decimate Obamacare? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

Need to Know: Jewish Voice for Peace speaks out against Netanyahu
- Naomi Dann, Jewish Voice for Peace

Screwed: Will SCOTUS decimate Obamacare?
- Karen Davenport, National Women's Law Center

Best of the Rest: Bill O's nose is growing again...
- Jeremy Holden, Media Matters for America

PLUS, DHS...the shutdown drama continues
- Tommy Christopher, The Daily Banter

Everything You Know Is Wrong: about 'revenge porn'
- Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami School of Law

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington on mission to thwart Iran deal" by Nick Allen.

Article: "Netanyahu on 'Historic Mission' to Stop Iran Nuclear Deal " by VOA News.

Quote: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region" - Benjamin Netanyahu by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike" by Mark Langfan.

Article: "Retired Israeli veterans warn against speech" by Ruth Eglash and William Booth.

Article: "Supreme Court takes up highly political Arizona redistricting case" by Reid Wilson.

Article: "SCOTUS To Hear Arguments Today On Redistricting" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Austerity Kills: Economic Distress Seen as Culprit in Sharp Rise in Suicide Rate Among Middle Aged" by Yves Smith.

Article: "Raising the minimum wage without raising havoc" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "Four Numbers to Make Us Fighting Mad, and One Way to Fight" by Paul Buchheit.

Article: "The Corporate Debt to Society: $10,000 Per Household, Per Year" by Paul Buchheit.

Article: "Amy Goodman on "Melissa Harris-Perry" on MSNBC Sunday, March 1st".

Article: "Battered person syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stockholm syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Two Ex-Army Rangers Believe Flip Flops And Sarongs Will Defeat ISIS" by Wes Siler.

Site: Hunter School

Quote: "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation" - Howard Scott.

Hour Two: Netanyahu to speak to U.S. Congress
- Dr. Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

Article: "To Netanyahu, Peace Is an Existential Threat" by Trita Parsi.

Article: "This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country" by Carl Gibson.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says" by Kim Geiger, January 22, 2011.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

PLUS, will SCOTUS destroy Obamacare?
- Ian Millhiser, Think Progress

Article: "The Odds That Each Justice Will Vote To Destroy Obamacare" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Study Details Deadly Consequences Of Gutting Obamacare" by Ian Millhiser.

Book: Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Llama chase in Arizona that shut down highway, ends safely" by CBC News.

Article: "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'" by Spencer Ackerman.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "WH Blasts House Republicans Over DHS Funding" by Mary Jarvis.

Article: "Another Week, Another Shutdown Deadline" by Fawn Johnson.

Article: "Obamacare Faces Toughest Test in Supreme Court Challenge" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Majority in poll says SCOTUS should uphold ObamaCare" by Sarah Ferris.

Article: "Gun rights bill would block ammunition regs" by Tim Devaney.

Article: "Netanyahu Uses Israeli Conference To Defend Congressional Address" by Mary Jarvis.

Article: "Senate Keystone veto override vote expected Thursday" by Laura Barron-Lopez.

Hour Three: DC's strange brew for pot legalization
- Dr. Malik Burnett, Drug Policy Alliance

Article: "With marijuana legalization, green rush is on in D.C." by Marc Fisher, Aaron C. Davis and Perry Stein.

Article: "Major Health Study: Long-Time Pot Smokers Face Little Damage to Their Lungs" by Paul Armentano.

Article: "U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Says Marijuana 'Can Be Helpful' For Some Medical Conditions" by Matt Ferner.

Article: "California judge to decide if marijuana's drug classification is unconstitutional" by Joanna Walters.

Article: "North Carolina Bill Would Legalize Medical Marijuana, Effectively Nullify Federal Prohibition".

Movie: "Reefer Madness".

Article: "Study: Medical pot might reduce drug overdose deaths" by Trevor Hughes.

Article: "Prop. 47 report finds fewer drug arrests, less crowding in jails " by Cindy Chang and Abby Sewell.

Article: "Israeli medical marijuana creates buzz but no high— will it go global?" by Anne-Marie O'Connor.

Article: "Charlotte's Web (cannabis)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Corporate Debt to Society: $10,000 Per Household, Per Year" by Paul Buchheit.

Article: "New Defense Secretary Supports Transgender Military Service" by Zack Ford.

Article: "Port Authority Didn’t Want Homeless People To Get ‘Too Comfortable’ With Free Blankets" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "Want to Know If a Restaurant Exploits Its Workers? There's an App for That" by Melissa Kravitz.

Article: "'We won't pay': students in debt take on for-profit college institution" by Sarah Jaffe.

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Jeb Bush - Just Another W?

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Securities attorney Peter Mougey talks UBS’s bond swindle over the people of Puerto Rico. Thom gives his take Daily Take on big banks helping rich tax dodgers skirt their bills. David Haynes of the Cochran Firm talks SCOTUS love for big corporations and Thom breaks down how this Supreme Court is the most corporate-friendly in the history of our nation. Richard Eskow talks Jeb Bush as a 2016 candidate, how he’s his “own man,” and how his brother lied America into two of the longest, most expensive wars in U.S. history.

How the Supreme Court Helped Create Kochistan...

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Netanyahu Doesn't Want Peace Between the U.S. and Iran

Why Netanyahu is Here...

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