- What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and s...
- The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat op...
- One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brow...
- After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including t...
- Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have...
- They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, so...
- Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a libera...
- Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party...
- The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell gam...
- Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have close...
- The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtai...
- More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation ...
- The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are...
- A deeply flawed conventional wisdom is developing that despite warnings fro...
- A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the atta...
- The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health care s...
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- Calls for a war with Syria mounted yesterday, despite mass popular oppo...
- Hide & seek can be a fun game for kids, but when huge corporations play...
- The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained documents revealing that th...
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Voting rights act as needed as ever
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson | Chicago Sun-Times
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across the street in the congressional rotunda, a statue honoring Rosa Parks will be unveiled.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Rallies to Support the Voting Rights Act
Written by Rep. Barbara Lee
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee joined with The Tri-Caucus (The Congressional Black Caucus, The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and The Asian Pacific American Caucus) to rally before the United States Supreme Court.
Jim Crow isn't dead, he just got lawyers
Written by Diane Roberts | The Guardian
The US Supreme Court's upcoming decision on the Voting Rights Act could let discriminatory laws make a comback
GOP Coddles the Rich, Cuts the Rest
Written by Leo W. Gerard | Huffington Post
I was in the Swiss village of Begnins outside Geneva shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. I spent three days there with Axel von dem Bussche, a former Wehrmacht major, holder of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross for extreme battlefield bravery, three times wounded in World War II, and the last surviving member of the inner circle of German army officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Truthdigger of the Week: Alexa O’Brien
Written by Alexander Reed Kelly | Truthdig
Alexa O’Brien believes that work is the purpose of life. Right now, her life consists of bringing the government’s prosecution of Pfc. Bradley Manning to the public.
For more than a year, O’Brien has been one of a handful of journalists who have had access to the pretrial hearings of Bradley Manning, the young man accused of providing WikiLeaks with documents that revealed government wrongdoing.
Five Reasons the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy
Written by Brendan Smith | Labor Network for Sustainability
The American labor movement is once again facing a most controversial issue — the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. While the KXL debate has largely centered around the environmental risks, from labor’s perspective opening up the Canadian Tar Sands is often seen as an economic, not an environmental, issue.
Voting Rights Act faces key test in Supreme Court
Written by David G. Savage, Washington Bureau | LA Times
The Supreme Court will decide whether to strike a key part of the Voting Rights Act, which conservatives say is outdated and unfair to the South.
Do more than the minimum on minimum wage
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.oom
"In the wealthiest nation on Earth," President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, "no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty."
The moral poverty of North Carolina's GOP legislature
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
As one who's been there, I can tell you that being unemployed is punishment enough, without having a pack of ideologically hidebound legislators snarling, snapping, and ripping at your meager rations.
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