Month: June 2009

Are we going to get a public option in the health care bill, or not?

Palau!!

This petition was circulated this morning by a group of well known peace activists, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Neve Gordon. In their words, “Every so often someone comes along who is so brave and so inspiring that you...

You won’t read this in the New York Times: The Saudi/US sponsored March 14 coalition in Lebanon won the parliamentary election, by getting 71 out of 128 seats (gaining +1), but lost the popular vote on election day by a...

Would you like a guaranteed $4,500 for your trade in (regardless of what it is really worth) on the condition that you buy a new car? The House of Representatives apparently thinks you will. Well, 298 of its members do: By a 298...