Mortgages, Marxism, and “Globalization”
The press this week reported that the U.S. stock market decline related to the unstable nature of the U.S. mortgage industry (or the home mortgage department of U.S. finance capital) is spreading to other stock markets.
LGBT Issues Presidential Forum Sparks Debate
Thursday night, six of the eight Democratic presidential candidates participated in a forum sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and MTV to talk about their views on LGBT issues. The forum was broadcast live via the Web at .
Rebuilding America: Investing in Our Infrastructure
In the past two years, America has experienced two tragic and shocking disasters—the toppling of the levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and last week's collapse of the I‑35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Country in Distress: The Upside Down Flag
am an American. I used to be a proud one. This was before a realization that hit me hard concerning the casualties of a dirty war. I am not talking about the war in Iraq. I am talking about the other war – the war on drugs.
A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of NAFTA on the Manufacturing Sector
In this, the fourteenth year of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it is of the utmost importance—in terms of its continued application in the future—to look back and examine the economic impact of free trade on the U.S. and Mexico over the last decade and a half.
Time to Run for Change, America
On July 25th the International Herald Tribune ran a piece titled; 'Teens march across America in lonely opposition to war.'
Georgia Supreme Court to Hear Davis Case, Parole Board Delays Hearing
Concerned activists held a press conference at the State Capitol, Tuesday, August 07, 2007, to update the public on developments in the Troy Davis death row case, and to present witnesses regarding overall problems with the death penalty in this country.
Senator Obama, the Bomb, and the Battle for the Democratic Nomination
The press is running with a story in which a few Democratic presidential hopefuls have criticized Senator Obama’s comments that he would not use nuclear weapons against Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
Anti-Nuclear Activists Descend upon Tennessee, Five Arrested
Fifty two years ago today, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians.
Campaigning for Nukes: Who is Being Naive?
Sen. Barack Obama's recent assertion that under his administration if 'actionable intelligence' became available regarding the location of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan he would use conventional rather than nuclear weapons to destroy those targets fits into his larger foreign policy aims of 'de-emphasizing the role of nuclear weapons.'
