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Public Citizen Asks Online Retailer KlearGear.com To Remedy Its Retaliation Against Customer for Critical Online Review
Online merchant KlearGear.com must retract its reports to consumer credit agencies concerning a phony $3,500 debt it has sought from customer John Palmer since late spring of 2012, Public …
Pilgrim’s Regress and the “Hand of God”
When climbing aboard the Mayflower and learning that his young wife, Dorothy, had fallen overboard and drowned, more than likely committing suicide, William Bradford called his tiny flock of …
Iran Nuclear Deal as Geopolitical Global Warming
With Iran holding the dubious honor of being the CIA's first adventure in the overthrow of a foreign government in 1953, the blowback for that and every other insidious …
The Lady Parts of Texas Women: Don’t Mess With Them
If you are a women living in Texas, that state has passed hundreds of laws in the last several years that strip a womenu2019s right to privacy, limit access …
The Global War on Terror and Internally Displaced Thanksgivings
Except for those directly participating in GWOT or returning home from overseas military deployments, including their immediate families, this Thanksgiving few US citizens will consider how an international antiterrorism …
Senate Majority Invokes “Democracy Option“
A change in filibuster rule restores the possibility of a functioning Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.
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New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove’s Group Spent Even More on Politics Than It Said
On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants …
How Can We Help America’s Opportunity Youth? Five Lessons Learned in New Orleans
Young people who aren't in school or working aren't beyond hope, but we need to invest more in the programs that will help them.
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Japan Eagerly Watches as a Brand New Island Forms
Japan Eagerly Watches as a Brand New Island Forms by s.e. smith November 26, 2013 8:30 …
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Switzerland Shows US How to Handle CEOs
In Switzerland a petition from 100,000 people, or about 1.25 percent of the population, creates a public referendum. By this means, last March, Swiss voters created strict limits on …