Global Corruption: Getting Worse, Say Six Out Of Ten People
The global corruption barometer report from Transparency International is out. The overall trends are concerning for citizens, and for the health of transparency and accountability of governance. Globally, six out of 10 people say corruption has increased in the last three years; eight out of 10 people say political parties are corrupt; 29 percent of […]
Olbermann: Obama is god damned wrong
It is not disloyalty to the Democratic Party to tell the President he is wrong. It is not disloyalty to tell him he is god damned wrong. It is not disloyalty to remind the president that he was elected by people to whom he had given a clear outline for what he would do FOR them, and if he does not steer out of the skid of what he is doing TO them, he may not only not be reelected, he may not even be renominated
John Lennon and Julian Assange: The Faces of Peace and Truth
Wikileaks has become a movement, and just as John Lennon became the face of the Peace movement, Julian Assange is the face of the truth movement.
The Empire Is Collapsing, and Americans Will Be the Last to Know
50 years from now historians will probably be writing about the fall of the American empire. But history is writing itself furiously in the present, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information. What would have taken years to unlikely gather is accessible to anyone with a few strokes on a computer keyboard. So […]
Immigration Hysteria Gone Crazy: Deporting A Resident of 50 Years
Mike Burrows came to America when he was two years old, and has lived here for 50 years. Due to a technicality in harsh anti-immigration laws, he will likely be deported to his birthplace of Canada within weeks, a country that he has no current connection to and no memory of.
