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WATCHING YOU WATCH ADS

April 2009

From national surveillance of our emails to local street cameras monitoring our movements, we’ve learned that Big Brother definitely is... Read more...

HOPE FOR APPALACHIAN RENEWAL

April 2009

Springtime in Appalachia is always a time of sublime beauty, for the ancient mountains and forests come alive with flowers,... Read more...

AIG’S SCANDALOUS PAYMENTS

April 2009

AIG has now entered the Hall Of Corporate Infamy. The global insurance behemoth gained entry the old-fashioned way: It earned... Read more...

OBAMA’S THIRD SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN

March 2009

Apparently, springtime is surge time in Afghanistan. President Obama is launching a new, expanded American adventure to “stabilize” this historically... Read more...

BANKERS IN THE KNOW

March 2009

The former geniuses who crashed Wall Street are now pushing a line to excuse them from any and all responsibility.... Read more...

A BAILED OUT BANK BAILS OUT ITS BANKERS

March 2009

At least one Wall Street investment house is stepping up to help some of the people who’ve been squeezed by... Read more...

OBAMA & CONGRESS CAN END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL

March 2009

If you live near a stream, should you be allowed to dump waste in it? I don’t mean a garbage... Read more...

“PIGGY BANK,” REDEFINED

March 2009

Like me, you might have had a piggy bank when you were a child. Putting pennies in the little fat... Read more...

PUT THE “PUBLIC” BACK IN PUBLIC SAFETY

March 2009

The report came from the official inspector in March 2008, and its conclusion was unequivocal: “The overall food safety level... Read more...

THE “SANCTITY” OF CORPORATE CONTRACTS

March 2009

You know what really gets my goat about AIG shelling out 165 million of our tax dollars to the top... Read more...

THE MILKMAN DELIVERS

March 2009

The most amazing thing to me about Robert Holding, a milkman in Lancashire, England, is not that he was delivering... Read more...

STIFFING WORKERS AND SPREADING CORPORATE WELFARE

March 2009

Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues going 100 miles... Read more...

THE RIDICULOUS CLASS BIAS IN AMERICA'S TAX CODE

March 2009

The rich truly are different from you and me, for they are treated differently. I’m not talking about the merely... Read more...

MICROCHIPPING AMERICA WITH A NATIONAL ID CARD

March 2009

Should the government require us to carry a national ID card embedded with what amounts to a bar code containing... Read more...

THE RIGHT WING WEEPS FOR THE RICH

March 2009

Politicos and pundits on the right have resurrected an old bugaboo to hurl at Barack Obama’s economic recovery efforts: Class... Read more...

DEATH, TAXES… AND DEBT COLLECTORS

March 2009

These are hard times for debt collectors. After all, who can pay their bills these days? Not Wall Street, Detroit,... Read more...

CORPORATE CONTROL OF INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

March 2009

Little rebellions can achieve big results, especially those coming from unlikely places. And, surely, one of the least likely sources... Read more...

THE U.S. FUELS MEXICO’S DRUG WARS

March 2009

The U.S. is scolding Mexico. Again. Washington officials are expressing alarm that Mexico’s government is at risk of a “rapid... Read more...

A BLUE-GREEN VICTORY FOR AMERICA

March 2009

To paraphrase the well-known bumpersticker, “Stuff Happens.” But sometimes, It’s good stuff. This story began with bad news. In December,... Read more...

GOP LEADERS MOVE FROM OPPOSITION TO OBSTINACY TO HYPOCRISY

March 2009

“No” can be a very good word. Whether dealing with children or with Congress, a firm “uh-uh” can set the... Read more...

WORDS FOR WALL STREET GREED

March 2009

Wow, y’all are prolific. And good. I recently ran a little contest asking readers to come up with some new... Read more...

CORPRATIST COURT FAVORS MOUNTAINTOP DESTRUCTION

March 2009

Once again, the black-robed corporatists of the federal courts have shown their true bias by ruling in favor of corporate... Read more...

LET'S RETRAIN WALL STREET INVESTMENT BANKERS

March 2009

The classic Depression song, “Brother, can you spare a dime?,” would now be more like “Brother, can you spare a... Read more...

EX-WALL STREET CEO'S STILL GETTING PERKS

March 2009

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Citigroup was a fairytale financial conglomerate that was the richest corporation in... Read more...

THE GOP's DEFICIT DRAMA

March 2009

Like characters from a bad German opera, national Republican Party leaders are bellowing with “Sturm und Drang” as they decry... Read more...