Norman Solomon - Progressive Democrats of America
Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. In a democracy, people have a right to know what their government is actually doing. In a pseudo-democracy, a bunch of fairy tales from high ...
David Swanson - TomDispatch
These last years of blissful peace have left Republican Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, soon to be the new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, in a true panic. How, he wonders, will a starved military ever get the necessary money for the weapons it needs to keep us ...
- Sky Valley Chronicle
(NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Scott Merzbach - Amherst Bulletin
Town Meeting has endorsed an ongoing public dialogue about how Amherst tax dollars are being used to fund wars overseas, even as a student representative from the University of Massachusetts told the assembly the measure goes too far. At the final session of fall Town Meeting Nov. 10, the _Resolution ...
Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch
The presumption of innocence may be slowly dying in the courtrooms where our terror trials are being held, as Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU Law School and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, points out in today's post. ...
Elbert Ventura - Progressive Fix
'Tis the season for deficit commissions. The past week has brought not one, not two, but three stabs at solving America's looming fiscal crisis. And just yesterday, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion on "The Politics of Entitlement Reform and the Budget Deficit," featuring a murderers' row of budget ...
- Brookings Institute
In Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill, director of Budgeting for National Priorities at Brookings, and Greg Anrig, vice president for policy at the Century Foundation, debated the pros and cons of major entitlement reform. On November 17, following the release of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt ...
Tom Engelhart - TomDispatch
You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn't going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your "it" might be will indeed end, because everything does, but your gut tells you something different. I had that moment recently ...
National Priorities Project - Common Dreams
NORTH HAMPTON, MA - November 9 - On election night, Democrats and Republicans agreed - it's all about jobs, deficits and taxes.While they agree on the problem, they absolutely disagree on the solutions. And the big question is, what's going to happen in Congress? National Priorities Project's latest webinar Jobs, ...
William Astore - TomDispatch
You'd think that people always seeking "lessons" from war would draw one from our latest wonder weapon, which fights our wars for us without an American in sight. I'm talking, of course, about the drone aircraft that have, in recent years, become a signature form of American war-making. They represent ...
