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Is the IRS Failing to Uphold the Separation of Church and State?
The Freedom From Religion Foundation claims churches engaging in electioneering are getting a free pass on audits.
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Obama Was Re-Elected: Now What?
Obama was re-elected by the poor and working class, who need to exercise their new clout to achieve real reform
Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
About a month after the disaster, on April 19, 2011, Japan chose to drastically increase its official u201csafeu201d radiation exposure levels[ii] from 1 mSv to 20 mSv per year …
FAIR TV: False Gaza Timelines, Failing at the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ and David Gregory’s CEO Story
This week: What do corporate media get wrong about the “cycle of violence” in Gaza? Is there really such a thing as a “fiscal cliff”? And David Gregory says …
The Demise of SuperPacs is Greatly Exaggerated
In certain corners of the electorate, there is joy. The tidal wave of cash that threatened to sink the ship of democracy did not. The power of grassroots democracy—ordinary …
Open Letter to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
We are a community of concerned citizens in British Columbia, including Amanda Todd's mother. As you may know, Amanda was contacted and blackmailed through Facebook by an adult predator …
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Walton Family Foundation Dumped $71.4 Million Into Greenwashing in 2011
Less well known to the public is Walmartu2019s ambitious campaign of corporate greenwashing in recent years.
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Sex & War: General Petraeus Scandal and the Untold Stories
Long before coming to America, the first English phrase I ever uttered was, oddly enough: “No money, no honey.” The painted girls in impossibly tight, colorful miniskirts who strutted …
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Even Cops Want to End the War on Drugs
The political winds are changing when it comes to legalizing marijuana in America. Now that voters in Colorado and Washington have decided to legalize marijuana, it's clear the political …
How Washington Insiders Bar Economic Reality From Political Debate
DC's self-anointed serious people love to exclude critics of their self-serving arguments by painting their warnings as shrill.