Stimulus Passes, Will Boost Education Spending
President Obama's economic stimulus package won final passage in Congress Friday, Feb. 13. The White House is expected to hold a prime time ceremony to sign the bill into law and set in motion a massive effort to jump start the failing economy.
'There are certain things only a union can do': Obama's Lincoln Birthday Remarks
Someday, some profit-minded publisher will publish the collected speeches of Barack Obama. It will sit on people's shelves next to their copies of the collected speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. People will search through the volume for quotable quotes and pearls of wisdom.
Japan: 'Bikini Day' Events Set Tone for 2010 NPT Review Conference
On March 1st ,55 years ago, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Fifth Lucky Dragon), a Japanese tuna fishing boat and its crewmembers as well as many local islanders were showered with radioactive fallout from a US hydrogen bomb test explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
ICC Orders Arrest of Sudan's Bashir, Media Reports
The ICC decision will present both challenges and opportunities. The international community, led by the United States and other members of the United Nations Security Council, must first and foremost meet the challenges.
Wall Street Wants 'Socialism for the Rich'
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner this week presented an outline of the Obama administration's Economic Rescue Plan. He presented it in the general context of the Obama's administration's strong criticism of the banks and brokerage houses and their auxiliaries aka finance capital.
Latin American Official Confirms Social Advances in Venezuela
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations (ECLAC), Ana Bárcena, confirmed the positive social statistics referred to by President Hugo Chávez during an interview with journalist Patricia Janiot last week on CNN.
Financial Crisis No Reason to Drop Immigration Reform Struggle
Immigrants in the United States, as well as activists supporting immigrant workers’ rights, are wondering what the impact of the current national and world financial crisis will be on immigration, and on efforts to get a better deal for immigrant workers, with or without papers, under the new administration.
Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign Heats Up to Pass National Health Care
Progressive Democrats of America will take to the phones on Lincoln's Birthday to call all U.S. representatives and senators and encourage their support for HR 676, The National Health Insurance Act, reintroduced last week by Rep. John Conyers.
Will War Ever End?
I wrote recently about the possibility of outgrowing the use of war. Today I got a book in the mail that makes a strong argument intended as a tool for ending war.
Eliminate Filibuster and the Need to Debate Republicans
From the pains Democrats take to out-argue and/or to compromise with the fringe minority party called the Republicans you'd think no other course of action was available, specifically you'd have to assume that the filibuster – the power of senators representing 11 percent of us to block all work by the House and Senate – is written in stone.
