Let's have no more celebrations of anyone's death, but on that glorious day when the US doesn't kill any person on this planet, then let us sing and dance in the streets.
Posted on Jun 16, 2010, Source: After Downing Street
Obama has gone further than Bush in claiming the powers to spy without warrant, imprison without charge, torture, assassinate, occupy and operate in unprecedented secrecy.
Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.
Posted on Sep 9, 2009, Source: Seven Stories Press
In his new book, Daybreak, Swanson warns that Cheney radically transformed the role of the vice president into an unaccountable, dangerous seat of power.
Posted on May 8, 2007, Source: After Downing Street
The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.
Attorney General Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was a case lesson in obfuscation, and not even Republican senators were buying it.
Reporters from the New York Times and others are trying to convince us that this time around, we can trust the U.S. intelligence community's evidence of Iran's bad intentions, but where is the evidence?
Congress passed a law banning permanent bases in Iraq and the Baker-Hamilton Report suggests that Bush state we don't have long-term plans - meanwhile, construction continues.
We believe the war would end if the media showed more images of the human horrors in Iraq, yet we turn away when they're placed in front of us. Not anymore.
Much of the commentary on Reagan is about personality and almost all of it is laudatory. Reagan is destined to become the eternal brave and smiling president.
Refreshingly simple 'do's and 'don't's for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from former Defense Secretary McNamara and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich.
Wal-mart and many other companies have managed to keep service jobs low-paying through legal and illegal union-busting practices. But there's no good reason why these jobs can't pay more.
A new book argues that all products should be completely recyclable or biodegradable -- toss the soles of your shoes into the garden and give the uppers back to the shoemaker.
Like a growing number of cities and states, New Orleans just raised its minimum wage by public referendum, giving low-wage Super Bowl workers a lot to celebrate.
