Joseph "Baby Face" Cardosa was officially reprimanded and reportedly faces suspension (link) for building a pistol & using ...

CELAC hasn't generated much reporting by the Anglo-US corporate press. Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños , CELAC (link...

Why is America at War? I remember during the Vietnam war, we were told Communism threatened America via Vietnam, and without our support ...

Execution Without Trial John Kipling remembered, d. 1915 Our mechanized assassin Brought down the Paki hive We murdered teenage Izab...

Governed by Fear ?      -- raw power breeds distrust      -- corrupt politicians are undisguised      -- so we exchange political master...

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is conducting an inquiry into state-sponsored assassination programs. T...

I recently made the bad decision to fly with Qatar Airways, attracted to their promise of "5 Star" Service -- but service on Qata...

Idle No More is a grass-roots effort by indigenous people to assert their sovereignty. The movement was begun in Canada in response to pr...

The recent sale of Current TV shows American corporate media weakness. Time Warner Cable decided to censor the new owners immediately , a...

Click to read a great essay -- if you dare : I Do Not Support the Troops Why those who say "I Support the Troops" really...

Another year finished, a new one begun. Perhaps this year we can enjoy development of more progressive communities. It may be too much to...

John Kerry and a sinister gang of American politicians have trashed the US Constitution they swore to defend. The FISA Amendments Act allow...

The FISA Amendments Act allows almost unlimited  government spying with no oversight or accountability. The government also continues to d...

As President Obama and the Republican Party conspire to cut Social Security payments, America's senior citizens should pledge never to ...

The Japanese people are being held to ransom by TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company -- the mismanagers responsible for the Fukushima nuclea...

Canada is embroiled by controversy over Federal efforts to change key environmental & property rights. Indigenous peoples are fighting ...

The USA has entered a meltdown. I'm sad about it. But what can be done? We're locked in decline -- by a corrupt corporatist system....

The looming grim "fiscal cliff" can be easily avoided, in a way most Americans would find painless: add a new financial transactio...

It is long past time the USA should institute a financial transaction tax (sometimes called "Tobin Tax") . Many American people ha...

Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, is being considered for the post of U...

John McCain, the 76-year old US senator from Arizona, should retire. Hard living has taken a horrible toll on body & mind. He's ser...

Too much state-sponsored violence & abuse hides under the rubric of patriotism. A key problem is greed - especially among big industri...

Mark Boal (writer) and movie director Kathryn Bigelow have glorified torture in their 2012 film 'Zero Dark Thirty' -- reportedly ma...

Sallie Krawcheck  -- Opportunistic bankster bitch, spawn of Citigroup & Bank of America. For five cents profit she'd sell yo mortg...

Russian poster boy Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky ( Сергей Леонидович Магнитский) was a Moscow lawyer & corporate auditor whose activism ...

An anonymous comment to another blog very much worth reposting: "Good executive talent is relentless about improvement, bad executi...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations Security Council in 2003 and promised "every statement I make today is b...

Millions of innocent Jewish people were tortured & murdered by the Nazis. All Germans and associated peoples share some responsibility ...

The UN General Assembly's upgrade of Palestine to observer state status was immediately condemned by the USA. Echoing earlier argument ...