Robert Reich's Blog: Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?: The basic idea of Reaganomics was that the economy grows from the top down. Lower taxes on the wealthy make them work harder and invest more, and the benefits trickle down to everyone else. Rarely in economic history has a theory be...

World Voting, located at http://www.WorldVoting.net, is the world’s first attempt at spreading the democratic process outside of traditional national boundaries. WorldVoting.net allows anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion to participate in a poll for any heads of state (or heads of go...

Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...

I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference. (1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people ...

As the economic vise tightens around all of us, but around newspapers more tightly than most, readers may become more suspicious about the influences bearing down on what was once a free and vibrant press. Suspicions like being unduly influenced by commercial pressures. Anyone who has ever worked in...

Why are today’s political plotters so hot for a military draft and mandatory civil servitude? Why are so many of them so eager to turn their once-sovereign fellow citizens into political string puppets? Do they know something we don’t? Do they know that the public treasury will be raped ...

Met Police keep database of protesters. In stellar conjunction with recent secret corporate databases, we can only assume one thing: The Powers that Be are Afraid What do those questioning the status quo have to gain? A change in the status quo. A silent revolution. A world in which certain jobs are...

Today at Obama’s Health Care Summit at the White House Senator Ted Kennedy who doesn’t appear to be ailing, declared that this time ’we will not fail’ at achieving health care reform/universal health care for all Americans. It seems Sir Ted is ready for a fight. Brain tum...

Blatantly anti-Semitic sign at a so-called"Peace Rally" in Northern California.(Hat tip: Zombietime Hall of Shame) The David Project has posted an excellent resource to counter the falsehoods being spread during the so-called "Israel Apartheid Week": The Truth About Israel's Democracy- Refuting the ...

The newly released secret laws of the Bush administration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: Yesterday, the Obama administration, to its credit, took steps towards fulfilling an important promise by disclosing -- in response to a long-standing, hard-fought ACLU lawsuit for disclosure -- multiple DOJ doc...