A pretty fast trajectory for a movement that many dismissed as nonsensical last week:After a weekend growth spurt, the New York financial district sit-in “Occupy Wall Street” has blossomed into…
Michael Moore paid the protestors a visit, and on television was asked what he wanted. I want to see those responsible for the mess doing the perp walk, he said.Michael…
When these leaders make speeches; pay attention to their language and the symbolism behind such language.An American president, in this case Obama, will use the language like “we are one…
Governments of developed countries have lost their way. They do not understand the problems facing their economies, and have allowed right wing economic ideologues to stampede them into premature and…
If Obama wants to know which of these two men he will be facing in the 2012 election, he could find the answer from a French-born anthropologist who could be…
There's no doubt that NATO, primarily the UK, France and the US, inserted themselves into the Libyan uprising as a means of gaining control over the course of the Arab…
Rick Perry would be a dramatically different president than George Bush Junior was, if he lives up to his stated intentions. Unlike most recent Republican presidents, who have hypocritically preached…
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united…
Defense spending factors into the recent deal to avert the entirely political debt "crisis" in a couple of ways. Firstly, amazingly, the deal actually increases defense spending in a certain…
The US has just gone through one of its periodic bargaining sessions, involving the President, the House and the Senate. Much ado about nothing occurred, and then a deal was…
House leader Boehner has hit a brick wall:The postponement was announced just minutes before the planned 6 p.m. vote. The House instead moved to consider a far less controversial measure…
Americans were plunged into the financial meltdown a few years ago, brought on by the excess and readily available credit that the US has been living on for several decades.…
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms: Information Clearing House: ICHStephen Harper, Conservatives and Liberals : you should take heed of this letter too. The situation…
Many, but certainly not all, US led military campaigns share a common element: a widespread international coalition that supports and participates in the campaigns. We will see that it is…
That's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder,…
Health care is expensive no matter where you are and places like Uganda and the USA health care is even more expensive because they don’t have universal health care for…
Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead - Opinion - Al Jazeera English by MJ Rosenberg, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. If anyone had any doubt about whether…
The right's mirror-image view of life - Opinion - Al Jazeera English This article applies to the Conservatives in Canada too: Excerpt: Yesterday, I pulled up to a drive-through ATM,…
Olive: America, the world’s sweatshop - thestar.comAnd similar anti-worker/anti-union movements (promoted by corporations and conservative governments) are happening here too in Canada.Excerpt:Sweden’s Ikea was revealed in April to be operating…
It's about time somebody decided to find out what role the big banks played in the disasterous subprime mortgage market that lead to the financial meltdown in2007, and caused so…
