Last week, President Obama made the case that the U.S must carry out missile strikes against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria. Supposedly this would stop the brutal repression that Assad is carrying out against the Syrian people using chemical weapons. In fact,...
Since July 3rd, Egypt has been in a state of upheaval. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has been the ruling party for a year and a half, was forced out of power by the Egyptian military. This military coup happened during mass demonstrations of millions of Egyptians, fed...
After months of negotiations union representatives for AC Transit workers and AC management have come up with a tentative agreement. They claim this is a real gain for the workers. Of course some of the truly insane demands put on the table by management were...
Governor Jerry Brown has told the courts to order a 60-day cooling off period to settle the BART contract. The news media is making it sound like the governor is the neutral force who can bring the two sides together and come up with a reasonable contract solution....
Much of the news media has portrayed BART workers as a greedy, self-serving bunch. But at the same time transit workers are being told to sacrifice, the Bay area wealthy and the politicians are celebrating Larry Ellison’s showplace of billionaires – the America’s Cup,...
