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23 November 2013
Switzerland shows U.S. how to handle CEOs
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David Swanson
In Switzerland a petition from 100,000 people, or about 1.25% of the population, creates a public referendum. By this means, last March, Swiss voters created strict limits on executive pay.

On November 24, the Swiss will vote...
23 November 2013
The Kennedy Assassination, compliments of the National Security State
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Pete Johnson

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy, the airwaves are awash with coverage which is contradictory, confusing, and dishonest. It is clear that President Kennedy was killed by the National Security...

21 November 2013
Cries in the wilderness
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Robert Koehler
“The only premise of the book was to just go out and listen.”
And the book, edited by Miles Harvey, who is quoted above, is remarkable. It’s one of a kind, as far as I know – How Long Will I Cry? – the first publication of a newly...
13 November 2013
Let's take advantage of suffering Filipinos!
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David Swanson
The same week in which a Washington Post columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to aid those suffering in the Philippines -- as a backdoor means of getting...
05 November 2013
Stand up to bigotry of ‘states’ rights
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Jesse Jackson
In 1980, after receiving the nomination of his party, Ronald Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., at the Neshoba County Fair. Neshoba County is not someplace you just drop into; you have to want to go there....
05 November 2013
Eisenhower's drones
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David Swanson
President Dwight Eisenhower is often admired for having avoided huge wars, having declared that every dollar wasted on militarism was food taken out of the mouths of children, and having warned -- albeit on his way out the door -- of the...

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