Peace of the Action (POTA), CodePINK, Cindy Sheehan, United Progressives, several other entities, and all Vulnerable Folks are calling on us to march, strike, and occupy Sacramento and beyond beginning May Day (1st), 2011. We seek your endorsement for – and participation in – this march/strike to strengthen our approach, our ...

by Walter Brasch A wall of suffocating heat nearly vaporized me as I walked into Marshbaum's house. In the kitchen was a portable kiln spewing fiery venom that was curling the linoleum. In the den, wildly pumping a potter's wheel flinging clay all over the room, was Marshbaum. “Got a new hobby?” ...

This is the fourth and final instalment of an investigative report uncovering and analyzing a global plan to capture and utilize the ocean's store of methane hydrates. The investigation reflects upon the decades of planning coordinated by the world's most powerful institutions, including the global banking and investment corporations, global ...

"There have been two principal aspects to the growth of democracy in this century (20th): the extension of the popular franchise (e.g. the right to vote) and the growth of the union movement.  These developments have presented corporations with potential threats to their power..."  Alex Carey & Andrew Lohrey, "Taking ...

'Congress has never passed a law that gives corporations the same rights as citizens.  There has never been a court - state, federal or supreme - that decided corporations are "persons" rather than "artificial persons."' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The past is never dead.  It is not even past." - William Faulkner A cold case is ...

"We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith." — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide, democratically elected, deposed in two coups with the blessing (and probably the active support) of the United States, living in exile in ...

Editor’s Note: This poem originally appeared in the old “Shared Sacrifice” online journal. The poem premiered on May 7, 2009. It’s obviously even more relevant today. Do you really not understand that you are an instrument, a tool, used by your "superiors" to conduct their business as usual?   While you gather in gangs and ...

The Spin Doctors | Spinning the Potential for Abrupt and Catastrophic Climate Change "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley It is now beyond obvious that those who control the world's economy are hell-bent on burning all of our planet's remaining fossil fuels – including those ...

Post Cancún: North America. The New Energy Kingdom   On 13 December 2010 directly following the disastrous Cancún conference ("one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War" ), a revealing post is found on the "oilprice.com" website. The article is titled North America: The New Energy Kingdom. From the ...

by Walter Brasch Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett may be the most adept politician in America. With the nation focused upon the union-busting Tea Party-backed Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Corbett has snuck in a plan to mine the state's resources, increase employment, reduce educational problems, and whack unions upside the head at the ...