You know the movies:  the thugs move in on someone they don’t like, punch him to the ground and then start kicking  at his head, his ribs, his face.  Like … [Keep reading >>]

Uff! I’d hate to make this my daily reading but as a resource for fact checking and holding to account it should be invaluable.
Today, we’re [California Watch] unveiling … [Keep reading >>]

Like thousands of other people, I’ll be part of the “Hands Across the Sand” nationwide protests against offshore oil drilling this Sunday (June 27). Local events begin at 11 a.m. … [Keep reading >>]

By NORMAN SOLOMON

Statistics might not lie — but they easily go flat as wallpaper when high unemployment is routine.

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Don’t know if Robert Creamer is right, but the numbers are starting to line up.
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman felt compelled to back tough anti-immigrant measures to get the … [Keep reading >>]

Not a few were gobsmacked late last night to read the breaking news from Thursday morning Australia. The once high-riding Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had been informed by major … [Keep reading >>]

Every War Has Two Losers: A Film by Hayden Reiss
…based on the journals of William Stafford, a conscientious objector in World War Two and National Book Award winner. Despite being … [Keep reading >>]

Bay Area filmmaker Haydn Reiss will present his film Every War Has Two Losers, a short documentary on poet and pacifist William Stafford, and engage in a discussion about the … [Keep reading >>]

I’m off in the woods where the silence is mostly broken by birds and rushing rivers.  The explosion of McChrystal’s bombshell remarks barely reach here however loud they are exploding … [Keep reading >>]

Juan Cole:
In the cases both of Iraq and of Deepwater Horizon, oil men were trying to get a big reserves of petroleum that had earlier been out of their reach. … [Keep reading >>]

President Obama has been claiming that the BP Gulf Oil gusher is the largest environmental catastrophe the U.S. has ever faced.  In Americans’ short attention span, it probably is — … [Keep reading >>]

NY Times business reporter, Joe Nocera, reminds us of two earlier BP accidents in the United States.

In March of 2006 thousands of barrels of oil spewed over the Alaska tundra … [Keep reading >>]