Special Interest or Class Consciousness? How Labor Put Obama in the White House
New polling data released this week by the AFL-CIO revealed the extent of union support for Barack Obama in the presidential election.
Book Review: The Wrecking Crew
Thomas Frank's previous books established his reputation as a thinking person's Michael Moore, moving beyond standard liberal howls of anguish to explore the underlying causes of the rise of the Republican right.
Japan: Why Pay Costs of Relocating US Marines?
Japan's Defense Ministry budget request for the next fiscal year starting on April 1, 2009 includes an expenditure for the relocation of 8,000 US Marines to the US territory of Guam in the South Pacific from Okinawa.
Book Review: The Limits of Power
Before the war in Iraq started Robert Kagan wrote a wonderful little narcissistic view of the United States and its abilities to provide peace in a world of democratic capitalism.
Letter to Obama: Veterans Urge VA Reforms
In a letter of congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama this week, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) called on the future president to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs and impose mandatory funding for benefits for veterans.
Atlanta Activists on Probation for Anti-Nuclear Protest in Virginia
NORTH ANNA, VIRGINIA - Two Atlanta anti-nuclear activists were among six people arrested at a sit-in at the Visitor's Center of the North Anna nuclear power plant in Louisa, Virginia, on August 08, 2008.
Proposition 8 Broke Our Hearts, but It did not End Our Fight
Like many in our movement, I found myself in Southern California last weekend. There, I had the opportunity to speak with a man who said that Proposition 8 completely changed the way he saw his own neighborhood.
Bush’s Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria
The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed.
Media Tell Obama – Don't Be a Lefty Like Clinton
Immediately after Barack Obama was pronounced the victor in the 2008 presidential election, corporate media began to tell him how he ought to govern – in most cases, urging him to hew toward the center.
What's First on the Obama Agenda?
Wondering what may be first on the new Obama administration's agenda? At a Nov. 7th press conference, his first as president-elect, Barack Obama announced that fixing the economy is 'job one.'
