US Census Report: In 2009, 43.6 Million People Lived In Poverty
Today, the US Census Bureau released its 2009 report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States. The data compiled for the report were collected by the Census Bureau in 2010, and the findings reflect the full negative social impact of the recession on the poor and the middle-class. The 88 pages […]
Is The US Arming Saudi-Arabia For A Proxy War Against Iran?
On Monday, the Obama administration discretely announced a plan to sale $ 60 Billion worth of sophisticated weapon systems to the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia. A deal of this scope would have being politically impossible just a few years ago both domestically and internationally. Domestically, the relationship between the US and the Saudis went into a […]
Sacred Rites Or Selfish Rights
The first is a failure of memory and imagination. We do not remember that up until very recently virtually all of humanity were locavores (and without particular hardship or ill effects). Because we cannot remember, we cannot imagine.
Gas Pipe Killer Inferno: A Symbol Of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
Last Thursday, in San Bruno California, at about 6:15 PM a 30-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline, belonging to the private utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ruptured. The pipe rupture created a firestorm that killed at least four people, left scored injured, completely destroyed 37 homes and badly damaged 8 others. This tragedy […]
Burning Korans and Building Mosques: America’s Blasphemy Laws
Blasphemy laws are instituted when members of a religious group decide that their belief system should be unassailable, immune from any real or perceived criticism, and protected from any disrespect or display of dissent, and are enforced through thethreat of punishment or dire consequences. America’s freedoms are being threatened by both internal and external forces exploiting the unwarranted legitimacy they receive through religious profession. If any one is going to secure their rights as an American citizen, we must all stand firmly for the rights of all American citizens.
