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Election Countdown 2012: Eight Tree-Sitters Block Keystone XL Pipeline in Texas, and More
This week in the Election Countdown, eight people scaled 80-feet into trees to block Kthe southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline; A virus transmitted by biting flies has …
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“Whatever Is Left Is Just Pieces of Bodies and Cloth”: New Report Details the Horror of Living Under Drones
Drones are a bipartisan issue. You can't cast a vote for a viable candidate in 2012 who won't continue to - in the words of the report -
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Elizabeth Warren Expresses Support for Medical Marijuana Legalization
“If there’s something a physician can prescribe that can help someone who’s suffering, I’m in favor of that,” said Warren, whose father died of cancer.
Just as McCarthyism Claimed to Fight Godless Communists, Boykinism Condones War on Idolatrous Muslims
Throughout, the official U.S. position has remained fixed: the United States government condemns Islamophobia.
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Sixteen States Could Inhibit 10 Million Eligible Latino Voters
North Carolina is one of several states that could inhibit 10 million eligible Latino voters from registering and participating to vote, according to a new report authored by a …
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The New Violence
A protester is detained by police during demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, September 17, 2012. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The …
Introducing “Planet or Profit?”
The drive for profits -- no matter what the threat to the ecosystem all humanity depends upon -- is a force for global destruction.
What Do We Know About Independent Voters?
The Facebook generation votes less reliably than other age groups, and may not vote for Obama in the same numbers as before after being disillusioned following Obama's highly optimistic …
A Dissident Voice for Democratic Schooling: Writer Gabriel San Roman Interviews Radical Educator Antonia Darder
I was forced to contend with a variety of inequalities that placed huge constraints upon me, and others like me, as a direct result of poverty, racism and sexism.
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Romney Energy Plan: Hot Cow Manure on Planet’s Open Wounds
We are left with this chilling conclusion: Mitt Romney is willing to risk the lives of billions of people, and a climate that could end modern civilization, so that …