Dear Friends, I have good news and bad news. The good news: is that This is Where We Take Our Stand, a film about the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier/Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation, has now been distributed to every PBS station in the country for broadcast in…
By: Frank Tissle Editors note: Shared from The New York Times - Please consider the following insert while reading this piece... "The Republicans hoped to prove that the Solyndra loan was a political favor to wealthy investors with Democratic ties, chiefly George Kaiser, An Oklahoma billionaire. They have not…
Just a heads-up - This is a very disturbing and emotional video. What would you do? Here's a few of the blog replies to this one: - Why are they putting the children in fucking POLICE CRUISERS? - The children here in this video are being put in police…
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine expressing his support for The December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown. The shutdown is a co-ordinated response by the Occupy Wall Street movement to the brutal, co-odinated repression of OWS by the 1%. It is also in solidarity with the longshoremen's struggle…
By: David Winston About six months ago, it became increasingly clear who would win the bid for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential elections: Mitt Romney. While many of the other contenders have surged in the polls intermittently, Michele Bachmann earlier this year, then Rick Perry, then Herman…
By: Bernard Falis We've all heard how diametrically opposed capitalism and socialism are, and whenever a pundit really wants to insult someone they disagree with nowadays, especially in America, they just call them a socialist, e.g. FOX News and Obama's Administration. But are they really that dissimilar? To break…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings On Nonviolence The US military is the largest polluter on Earth, so large that they can't seem to pay to clean up their own messes, even when they get as much money every year as all other militaries of the world combined. It is…
By OcJim For some time the right wing has controlled the media message. They have controlled the main-stream media and Fox News with two tools: first of all ownership is in the hands of monolithic corporations and corporate values dominate the content and therefore, the message; secondly, the right-wing…
YouTube Video: 75 years in Prison for Video Taping Police There is such a thing as an eavesdropping law that prohibits citizens to "illegally" record, either verbally or visually, the actions or words of a police officer and other public officials in 12 States without their consent, which includes: California…
I am writing this article to expand upon a blog I posted on Open Salon, Taboo Jive and my own website, The Black Feminista earlier this week named The Harsh Realities of Being on Welfare In order to receive TANF benefits in Illinois, which is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,…