by David Sirota | Apr 10, 2008 | News
The Federal Reserve Bank's decision to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed credit to Wall Street banks was met with a stunned reaction typical of surprising events. But really the move was the expression of longstanding...
by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 10, 2008 | News
The war in Iraq is now costing the country $12 billion a month. While the rest of us get poorer, who's getting rich off this windfall? A glance backward at the period between March 20, 2003, when our troops rolled across the desert to invade Iraq, and March 20,...
by our readers | Apr 10, 2008 | News
Fact CheckThank you for attempting to review my new album [Asking For Flowers, CD Shorts, March 27, 2008]. I wanted to help you with some fact checking. I haven't "taken to wearing makeup." I wore it the first time I played the Iron Horse and I wear it...
by Ted Rall | Apr 10, 2008 | News
“No one owes obedience to a usurper government or to anyone who assumes public office in violation of the Constitution and the law. The civil population has the right to rise up in defense of the constitutional order. The acts of those who usurp public office...
by Alan Bisbort | Apr 16, 2008 | News
Everywhere I turn these days, friends and colleagues in the journalism trade are losing their jobs. With an economy in free fall—and all portents suggesting even worse times are on the horizon—losing a job is not a new story for most Americans. Like...
