All environmental groups are not created equal. Some of them are created, sustained, and shaped in corporate boardrooms, and we shouldn't be surprised at the consequences.   World’s Greatest Magic Trick   “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - ...

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 Bullied, harassed, and lied to, District 1 of the Amalgamated Association of Easter Bunnies, AFB-CIO (American Federation of Bunnies–Cottontails International Organization) went on strike, forcing a halt to this year’s Easter egg hunts in Wisconsin. At Bunny Headquarters, Solomon P. Bunny, union executive secretary, and a militant corps of ...

This week, GlobeScan published a very interesting summary of its poll on public attitudes towards the “free market”. Now, according to the report, only 59% of American’s believe the free market is the best economic system. This is more proof that, as Rush Limbaugh said, “words mean things”. I ...

This announcement was not highly publicized among death penalty opponents, but a little over a year ago, one of the leading scholarly authorities on criminal law in the United States, the American Law Institute, gave up on the death penalty, effectively removing it from the influential Model Penal Code. In October ...

On Monday, the North Dakota Senate approved a bill that requires schools to promote abstinence-based sex education: “An amendment introduced by Sen. Larry Luick, R-Fairmont, rewrote the bill, requiring schools to ‘explain why abstinence from sexual activity until marriage provides safety from sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and other associated health issues.’ ...

In the long run,renewable energy is more economically and environmentally viable than either carbon or nuclear energy. In the short run, we're closer than we might suspect in some ways, even if formidable structural barriers exist elsewhere. In the This description of the Latin American context could is typical of ...

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 ...