The Democratic and Republican parties are bankrupt, or let’s just come out and say it—they’re corrupt. Banks, corporations and the influence of billionaires have
Group fights religious proselytizing at US Air Force Academy
Has “Onward, Christian Soldiers” replaced “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” as the official anthem of the US Air Force Academy? Has
Operation Dark Heart joins the censorship “Hall of Futility”
In a novel approach to censorship, the US Department of Defense [DOD] recently bought up the entire 10,000-copy first run of Operation Dark Heart,
Creating jobs, with “more” and “less”
There’s no denying that “shovel-ready” projects, like building new roads, bridges, runways and railroad tracks are good ways to generate new jobs—but they’re not
Racial, ethnic boundaries, city by city: Connect the dots
An “info-nerd” in California has translated data from the US Census Bureau into a map of the racial/ethnic divides in 40 American cities. On
Do we really need 11 aircraft carriers?
They cost $11 billion each to build. And who knows how much it costs to operate one. That figure must be mind boggling. The
MO Prop A: If it passes, who wins, who loses?
In Missouri the battle over the November ballot initiative, Proposition A, is hot. There is a lot of confusion over what Prop A is
Prisons: Punishment or healing?
Jacques Verduin, founder of the Insight Prison Project (IPP) thinks prisons should be for healing. IPP is non-profit community organization working in collaboration with
“The Most Dangerous Man in America,” available, at last, on DVD
You have to be deep into middle age to know, first-hand, what Daniel Ellsberg did in the early 1970s to expose the top-level lies
Venezuela’s economy doing better than reported in US media
Mark Weisbrot, co-director of DC based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), says mainstream reporting on Venezuela’s economy is way off the mark.