Thursday, 25 March 2010

Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It 

By Paul Craig Roberts

There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Continue


Whose Streets? 
(Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)

By Cindy Sheehan

It seems like we march past empty buildings and shake our fists at them and promise that if those empty buildings don’t change their ways, we will be back next year to do the same thing. Continue


Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist?

By Joan Brunwasser

We need to take a look at what forces in American society are preventing people from being able to resist tyranny and dehumanization. Continue



Fourteen US states sue to block health reform: In a sign of political battles to come, 14 US states filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of health care reform just moments after President Barack Obama signed it into law.

IRS Needs $10 Billion to Be Nation's Health Enforcer: The mandates require that all Americans carry a minimum level of health insurance or pay a separate tax for every month they are without such coverage. All employers with 50 employers or more will also be required to provide their employees with that same minimum level of coverage.

Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Take Own Lives: The foreclosure crisis in Philadelphia is now becoming a matter of life and death. Eyewitness News has learned that in the past month, two homeowners took their own lives before sheriff's deputies arrived to tell them that they were being evicted.