No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In f... Read more...
April 24th marks the 59th birthday for internationally acclaimed journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal who has spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Last year his death sentence was commuted to life in prison, but we are clear, life in prison is not justice. Mumia... Read more...
On Friday, Anonymous called for an Internet blackout in protest of CISPA, which passed the House on Thursday. If signed into law, CISPA would make it legal for websites to give your personal information to the U.S. government without your permission. Naturally, the hacker collective anonymous is... Read more...
The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) just passed the U.S. House, and will now head to the upper Senate chamber for further deliberation. Rinse and repeat. This isn't the first time that this has happened, but it still poses a major threat to Fourth Amendment rig... Read more...
They’ve got to be putting something in the water near Paul Robeson high school. How else does one explain 115 out of 800 girls from the high school either being pregnant or being moms? It’s a district-wide, officials say. It’s a national problem, but the numbers seem to be higher at Robeson.�... Read more...