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16 April 2010
Mines have spurned safety for too long
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Jesse Jackson
One faction of the Tea Party will gather on the mall in Washington, D.C., this week on Tax Day. They will rail against big government, intrusive regulations, taxes and spending.

On Monday, people across the country observed a...
16 April 2010
Kucinich on assassinations and upcoming war funding vote
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David Swanson
Congressman Dennis Kucinich said on Friday that he is working with Congressman Jim McGovern, a member of the Rules Committee, who has drafted a letter asking that the upcoming war supplemental be a clean vote not muddied by the inclusion...
15 April 2010
Yeah, well you finally stopped getting mad
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David Swanson
Here's a popular "Letter to America" and a new reply from America below.
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company...
13 April 2010
Corporatocracy and its discontents
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David Swanson
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has given out its 2010 Muzzle awards for those blocking freedom of speech, and the awards are all for particular petty instances of censorship. Stanley Fish muses in the New...
13 April 2010
Our national epidemic of violence
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David Swanson
James Gilligan published a book 13 years ago called "Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic," in which he diagnosed the root cause of violence as deep shame and humiliation, a desperate need for respect and status (and,...
07 April 2010
Is murder the new torture?
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David Swanson
I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book "Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity." Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth...

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