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News in Brief: “Pro-Family” Groups Bash Gay Marriage Ruling, and More
Conservatives and “pro-family” groups like the American Family Association (AFA) are already criticizing the historic ruling made Wednesday against California's ban on gay marriage. Right wingers claim the ruling …
Hello, America? This Is Your Wakeup Call
There are cracks in the earth and holes in our hearts. The gusher in the Gulf has dramatized in gut-wrenching fashion a set of values and outcomes that comprise …
Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of Psychological Impact From BP’s Oil Disaster
While the devastating ecological impacts of BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are obvious, the less visible but also long-lasting psychological, community and personal impacts could be …
Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder …
Jeff Cohen | Colbert One, US State Department Zero
On last night's “Colbert Report,” an amazing moment occurred when Stephen Colbert raised a major social issue that US mainstream media assiduously ignore: the huge US prison population. The …
Telling Swiss Secrets: A Banker’s Betrayal
New York - It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking — the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names — and it’s the rare …
The Right to the City: Shaping the City that Makes Us
Lefebvre described the right to the city as “the summation of other crucial rights” including the “right not to be alienated from the spaces of every day life” or …
Come the Revolution: Are We There Yet?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” …
Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti: The Urgency of Housing, Part IV
"We're mobilizing people in the camps and the shantytowns to let them know that getting housing is a right. Our vision is to make the problem of housing a …
Ellen Brown | What a Government Can Do With Its Own Bank
Virg Bernero, the mayor of Lansing, Michigan, just won the Democratic nomination for governor of his state, making a state-owned Bank of Michigan a real possibility. Bernero is one …