There's an unseemly hurry to rename the Cape Cod National Seashore's year round Salt Pond Visitor's Center after former U.S...

Mitt Romney has failed to properly handle questions about his wealth & income, his work with Bain & Co., his IRA (individual retirem...

Keep people indebted, keep them dumb, keep 'em hungry... Republicans and Mitt Romney are preparing the groundwork for a new America. J...

Paul Krugman on Romney's hidden finances: "I’ve been awe-struck by the way questions about Mr. Romney’s career at Bain Capital, t...

Why is America at war? Or to rephrase - why is America still at war in Afghanistan? Too many people have suffered & died for whateve...

The 31,000 ton USNS Rappahannock recently fired on a small fishing boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, killing an Indian fisherm...

The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm had 2407 athletes, including 48 women. Team USA did not send any female members - surprisingly, for similar r...

Mitt Romney's claims of loyalty to der Fatherland USA might be doubted. He himself ably avoided service during the Vietnam War, and amon...

Another huge financial scandal has been settled, where credit card companies & major banks have agreed to pay retailers up to US$7.25 b...

Mitt Romney seems to me an amoral weasel. He appears the type of person who'd somehow manage to "miss" World War enlistment, w...

The U.S. Olympic Committee is under siege by politicians (link) for purchasing uniforms from China for the Olympic team USA. US Senator...

Infant circumcision is difficult to justify. Whether for boys or girls, the practice seems to me ghastly : irreversible genital mutilation ...

The US government dipped into cellphone user accounts over 1.3 million times in 2011. Nine major US carriers (link) provided data released b...

One hundred years ago today in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku representing the USA won the 100 meter freest...

Nearly 30,000 American troops are stationed in South Korea. Both governments seem satisfied with present arrangements. But it's ugly and...

Successful nuclear power stations avoid accident -- perhaps through luck. The downside to disaster is horrible.  Survivors face decades of...

We are surrounded by, and rely upon, local, national & global companies. It should be more widely recognized that in times of serious tr...

Be cautious with your Facebook network. Keep your network closed for safety, and purge little-known "friends" who never post (perh...

Though my paperboy is grubby, it doesn't stop me reading the newspaper. The postlady may fart & smell bad, but I still open my mai...

We collect tax to pay for social investment & costs. One major cost is cleaning up after private interests. We sadly provide a cut &...

British Prime Minister David Cameron fortunately became a great friend of Rupert Murdoch & Co....       Cozy. Can Cameron survive scrut...

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been a good pet of the USA.

Dear Adbusters & Occupy activists Many thanks for continuing agitation in support of humanity. As we struggle against unchec...

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders released an explosive report today (link) detailing monstrous low-interest & no-interest funding to insiders...

A fearsome story slowly draws to a close, as the long-time fugitive girlfriend of Whitey Bulger is sentenced to 8 years in U.S. Federal p...

We celebrate the wild thing, enjoying song & excitement, honoring the dark & dangerous. But when the wild approaches, pussies get ...

Many formula retailing establishments are facing frictions in smaller towns. Revised zoning laws seek to " preserve local character ...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich early next year will leave the U.S. House of Representatives, after serving since 1997. His persistence against ...

Nobody wants to live or to raise their family in a shithole . Place Appeal is an increasingly important dimension of management & gov...

The whole world now knows:             Fukushima = nuclear disaster Japanese nuclear operator TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company 's...