Month: August 2007

One of the most disturbing — and atypical –stories of global corporate complicity in torture and murder of the past 10 years remains the under-reported media story of Chevron and its human rights abuses in Nigeria:...

Our Middle East safari gets curiouser by the day.   The United States (i.e., George W. Bush) will designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard corps as a “specially designated global terrorist.”  The...

Steve Benen wonders why conservatives hate America. Actually, he wonders why Peggy Noonan, Dinesh D’Souza, and Glenn Beck think our own moral failings are responsible for and, to some degree justify, terrorist attacks against...

Weekly Voting Rights News Update This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Story of the Week: Opinion: State’s system for restoring...

I’m just going to do a little selective cutting and pasting from Pennsylvania State Senator Vince Fumo’s wiki. I think you’ll get the picture. Vincent Joseph “Vince” Fumo (born May 8, 1943) is a...