We have accumulated over $10 trillion in goods trade deficits since NAFTA. Our lived experience tells us the 99% are getting burned by ou...

Mother's Day honors a progressive feminist, inclusive, non-violent vision for world community. At first glance, Mother's Day app...

  #notpp There's no such thing as free trade. Corporations go around bottom feeding at the expense of the working class. Another sad...

Based on the six tunes on  Emergency Broadcast , the future certainly looks bright for Before We Get Buried.  Hailing from Austria, Befor...

A moral component is currently lacking in all platforms in high-frequency trading, derivatives, and dark pools in today’s electronic glob...

"In their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people in the rest of the world,' said the victim ahead of his ultimate death, ...

Crusaders massacering Jews in Rhineland Christians should not be insulted by the facts of history. All people of faith should be inspir...

In effect, the federal government has been subsidizing contractor misconduct with our tax dollars. Rodney Bridgett was killed when a pie...

All of these changes are shifting Earth into a "new state" that is becoming less hospitable to human life, researchers said. H...

2 Trillion dollars later and hundreds of thousands dead or displaced, the world is predictably less safe for the west than it was - and j...

The U.S. is the undisputed world leader in incarceration, as it is the world leader in military dominance.  On December 10 - International...

Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the wo...

The enormous resonance of the story in The Hunger Games suggests it’s caught something many Americans sense: the rules we are currently l...

Ebola is less a story about a bizarre new disease and its unpredictably disastrous capacities, and more a sad old story about poverty and ...

For some reason, Democrats candidates didn't seem to consider the possibility that maybe being embarrassed to be a Democrat is not th...

To successfully transform our society from its current obsession with acquiring material goods, we need to help connect people with their ...

Republicans (many of whom don't want government to be considered as an effective tool) benefit from public disgust—even if their cons...

Conservative icon/federal judge changes mind on photo ID laws, issues blistering dissent against them. Judge Richard Posner, the Reagan-ap...

Public health experts unanimously agree: sealing borders will not stop Ebola spread and will only exacerbate the crisis in West Africa — ...

The proposal—to establish a committee that would review course materials to ensure they promote patriotism and avoid encouragement of ...

“To say Muslim countries, as though Pakistan and Turkey are the same… it’s frankly, and I use this word seriously, stupid!” Comedian Bil...

Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of ISIL. Shouldn’t the public know about their lin...

There is no military solution to the problem of ISIS. Military actions will not set the stage for political solutions; they will prevent t...

Often what we try to ban is the very same thing we do not understand. The story of Shariah in Indonesia's Aceh province is a telling l...

Though the militants of ISIS would undoubtedly be horrified to think so, they are the spawn of Washington. 13 years of regional war, occup...

The restructuring of local police departments into what look like occupying military forces has become a national trend.  Democratic and R...

"The Palestinian Christians, they don't live in an isolated area where oh, this is a Christian town. No, they live among the Mus...

Why does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, and why did he use the tragic kidnapp...

Waste is not something we need to take for granted. It represents a fundamentally broken pattern of consumption. The way we use and dispos...

Tax credits, like the child tax credit (CTC) and the earned income tax credit (EITC), keep more people – including children – out of pov...