It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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The Military Spy Drone So Powerful It Can See Your iPhone from 17,500 Feet
The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 square miles in a single image, with a zoom capability can detect an object as small as six inches on the ground.
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The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
Capitalism is a cult devoted to the ideals of privatization over the common good, profit over social needs, and control by a small group of people who defy the public's will.
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Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Swiss researchers have found that of the world's 43,000 transnational corporations, a "super-entity" of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, collectively constitute 40% of the total wealth in the entire global network.
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Will Obama Heed Growing Calls for a National Climate Summit?
Because of a long-term disinformation campaign by oil and coal interests - six of the world's 10 largest corporations are oil companies - America has been complacent about the climate disruption that is happening. This is about to change.
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Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
Mexico City's plans to tap its newly discovered aquifer suggest that America is poisoning deep-located wells it might need in the future.
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New ALEC Law Makes Reporting Factory Farm Abuse an "Act of Terrorism"
New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms.
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Obama's Pick for SEC Head Puts Fox in Charge of the Hen House
Mary Jo White is a perfect symbol of the revolving-door culture: where regulators go soft on suspected Wall Street criminals, knowing they have million-dollar jobs waiting for them at hotshot defense firms as long as they play nice in office.
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In Maine, 1,000 Rally Against Exxon Tar Sands Pipeline
In the largest protest in the Northeast against tar sands, massive crowds from Maine, New England and Canada marched across Portland opposing the 236-mile long, 62-year-old Exxon/Enbridge pipeline.
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
As Aaron Swartz’s and other “hacktivist” cases demonstrate, you don’t have to be a hacker to be viewed as one under federal law.
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Occupy Suburbia: Where the Battle of Ideas Must Be Won
Voters' rejection of Tea Party policies signaled an opening for a different narrative to become cemented in the suburban political mind.
