The Real Criminals Are Walking Free
Last week, eight city officials from Bell, California, including the mayor, were arrested and taken to jail on corruption charges. The officials are charged with stealing over $5.5 million from the city treasury. The accused city council members gave themselves $100,000 salaries and took $1.2 million in additional pay to attend fake meetings that lasted […]
War At Home and Abroad – Lies Can’t Hide Reality
On August 31, the Obama administration announced that the war in Iraq is ending, and the troops are being withdrawn. Then last week, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the recession ended in 2009. What could be more ridiculous? Iraqis are still dying, soldiers are still being sent to kill and be killed. […]
Poverty – The Flip-Side of Profit
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau reported a massive increase in the federal poverty rate. In 2009, the number of people living below the official poverty line rose to 44 million, the largest number since the agency began keeping track 50 years ago. These numbers mean that one in every seven people in the U.S. […]
The Anniversary of 9-11: Nine Years Of Death, Destruction And War
The uproar over building an Islamic center a few blocks away from the site of the World Trade towers, combined with the threat of a Florida preacher to burn the Quaran, once again fanned the flames of fear, hatred and patriotism. For nine years, in the name of 9-11, the U.S has been at war […]
The Tea Party: A Grassroots Movement? Fed and Watered by Billionaires
For months now the media has been full of stories of the so-called Tea Party movement. Rallies of 200 were important enough to be featured on primetime news and the front page of the newspapers. This has all been built up over the last weeks with Glenn Beck’s attempt to eclipse the 1963 March on […]
What if Labor Had More Than a Day?
For many workers this past weekend was a rare moment to actually spend time with our friends and families. Labor Day means that we have an extra day to go camping, go fishing, have a BBQ, go to the park or just sit around with family and friends trying to recover from the endless days […]