Attorney General Holder may be ready to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush-era torture program. We need to tell him to move forward, and to include the architects of the program in the investigation. Tell the Attorney...
11 July 2009
The United States has produced several mythic historical figures – Paul Bunyan, John Henry and the like – but our actual prophetic peace activists are actually far more interesting. People like Eugene Victor Debs, Emma Goldman, and in our...
09 July 2009
California’s state finances have gone to pot, and that’s what it should use to pay its employees.
Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on...
Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on...
08 July 2009
It's a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees and gave legal approval to interrogation techniques...
08 July 2009
The day after ramming through nearly $100 billion more for wars and $100
billion in loans to European banks through the IMF, the majority leader
in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, introduced a "PayGo"
bill, requiring...
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