By Joe Bageant

Restoring dignity to laboring America won't be easy. It won't be pretty, and it won't be "within the system." Because the system is the problem.

Finally a Christian speaks out that I can respect:

Haunted By The "Suspected Terrorists"

By Rev. WILLIAM E. ALBERTS

In The Spirit of Perestroika

By Mikhail Gorbachev

-- Years ago, as the Cold War was coming to an end, I said to my fellow leaders around the globe: the world is on the cusp of great events, and in the face of new challenges all of us will have to change, you as well as we. For the most part, the reaction was polite but sceptical silence.

Why We Need Smart Policy About Sex Work

By Ester Amy Fischer

It seems strange to eulogize an online red light district, but Craigslist Erotic Services transformed the meaning of being a sex worker.

“Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel’s right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine’s,” Mr. Obama said. “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”

By Jack Hidary

- In front of a packed audience tonight at the Times Center in New York City, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture which occurred there.

By Chris Hedges

-- The crisis faced by combat veterans returning from war is not simply a profound struggle with trauma and alienation. It is often, for those who can slice through the suffering to self-awareness, an existential crisis. War exposes the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. It rips open the hypocrisy of our religions and secular institutions

As the West continues to press Iran on its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country considers developing nuclear weapons as "politically retarded".

Or else we'll all be held accountable

by Rep. Ron Paul

by: William Rivers Pitt

President Obama gave a speech on Thursday praising the excellence of the American experiment, and claimed his own life was made possible by the promise of the documents and the ideals that founded this nation. As usual, his delivery and diction was perfect. Unfortunately, his behavior of late has fallen far short of the ideals he has given such eloquent lip service to.

End HMOs, Rebuild the Hill-Burton Hospital System

by Marcia Merry Baker

If a nation in the midst of an economic crisis, with unmet medical needs, decided to reduce spending on health care, decrease the number of hospitals, and cut treatment, what would you think about its government's intention? Premeditated murder?

Tales From the Working Class

By MICHAEL D. YATES

Economists never say much about work. They talk about the supply of and the demand for labor, but they have very little to say about the nature of the work we do.

By Sarah Gilbert

-- If this were the 1950s, I'd be about to be put on every blackball list in town. Because I'm cuckoo for those Socialist cocoa puffs after reading this piece on Norway's success with the "cradle-to-grave welfare state."

A Soldier's Tale

Check Point Iraq

By KRISTOFFER REHDER

"Get Out of Iraq. Get Out Afghanistan"

By Dennis Kucinich

I sure respect a man that has taken the road less traveled and challenged the protestant/catholic popery with facts.. Has he entered through the narrow gate? Through the camel's needle? I believe so...

He's accused of being arrogant by the ignorant!!

Americans who wish to live free have two options: We can resist, fight and risk bloodshed to force America's tyrants to respect our liberties and human rights, or we can seek a peaceful resolution of our irreconcilable differences by separating.

Walter Williams

Of all the American states, only two have ever been fully independent nations: the Kingdom of Hawaii, land grabbed and stolen by US business interests and Texas, which, after being an independent republic, joined the US willingly, or at least that is the official line. There are quite a few who debate the willingly part, but that, dear reader, is for another story.

By Jim Hightower

Our fight against moneyed elites has more than 100 years of history.

It sure looks like it

by Justin Raimondo

The elaborate pretenses that surround any discussion of Israel are fast making it impossible to say a word about that country without uttering a number of increasingly obvious lies.

The word “race” has no biological definition.

The classification “race” is only applied to humans and is therefore not a general term of biology. In other species we talk of “subspecies” and occasionally “breed” (the result of deliberate breeding efforts).

by Daniel Miller

I was asked recently to address the issue of Texas secession. This topic is permeating every aspect of living in North America right now and rightfully so.

There are so many directions that I could tackle this topic to cover all of the bases.

History That Can't Be Erased By the Stroke of a Pen

By FIDEL CASTRO

'The Republican Party Is in Very Deep Trouble Right Now'

PRAISE THE LORD! Wipe these hypocrite Republicans out of existence dear Lord!!!

By President Ahmadinejad

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful…

By Fidel Castro Ruz

"Cuba" --- Neither represented nor excommunicated, only today could I learn what was discussed at the Summit of Port of Spain. They led us all to entertain hopes that the meeting would not be secret, but those running the show deprived us of such an interesting intellectual exercise.

by Chris Bowers

An investigation into national support for secession.

by James Parks

The power of workers comes through with a union. That’s the message and lesson learned during the successful sit-in by nearly 300 workers at the Republic Windows & Doors plant in Chicago last December.

Fidel Castro: Mr. Obama, the Blockade of Cuba Takes Lives and Brings Suffering

By Fidel Castro

Obama has so far been silent about revoking the harshest of measures against Cuba: the blockade.

By Joe Conason

In America’s struggle against the extremists and terrorists epitomized by al-Qaida, the strategic imperatives are to divide the enemy and neutralize their base. Fortunately for the United States and its allies, the new American president understands how to do that—and is uniquely suited to accomplish the mission.

'We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible'

Spiegel Interview With Iranian President Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with SPIEGEL about what he expects from US President Barack Obama, why America's new Afghanistan strategy is wrong and why Iran should have a spot on the UN Security Council.

'We the People' to 'King of the World'
You're Fired!
By Michael Moore

Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a company that's spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 list than anyone else -- "You're fired!"

Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir arrived in Qatar to attend the Arab summit. He was not arrested there contrary to the expectations of the European Union and the United States. Moreover, he was made one of the central figures of the summit.

Lyndon LaRouche

You may recall that I was the only person, back on July 25, 2007, who warned of exactly what has happened to the world economy since.

It is widely acknowledged today that you can't solve a problem, such as the deepening breakdown crisis of the world economy, without knowing what its causes were. In that light, there is little surprise that so few people know how to approach getting the world out of the current disaster.

It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need - Not Weed

By Dara Colwell

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?

By Walter E. Williams

Our Colonial ancestors petitioned and pleaded with King George III to get his boot off their necks. He ignored their pleas, and in 1776, they rightfully declared unilateral independence and went to war.

by Ellen Goodman

You have to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a "shovel-ready project." There are now 1,100 square feet on the South Lawn of the White House being transformed into a kitchen garden. If Americans follow the first family's lead, the seed pack will become the new stimulus package. At least we'll have something to do with those pitchforks after the AIG bonus babies surrender their money.

by Edward Spannaus

Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Attorney General, has been the nation's most aggressive investigator in targetting the huge bonuses that major banks were giving out around to their own executives at the time they were hauling in Federal bailouts.

by Chris Hedges

In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation. They express indignation at AIG bonuses and empathy with a working class they have spent the last few decades disenfranchising, and make promises to desperate families that they know will never be fulfilled. Once the spotlights go on they read their lines with appropriate emotion. Once the lights go off, they make sure Goldman Sachs and a host of other large corporations have the hundreds of billions of dollars in losses they incurred playing casino capitalism repaid with taxpayer money.

by: President Barack Obama

Last week, I spent a few days in California, talking with ordinary Americans in town halls and in the places where they work. We talked about their struggles, and we talked about their hopes.

President Barack Obama reached out to Iran on Friday -- the start of the Iranian New Year -- in a video message offering "the promise of a new beginning" that is "grounded in mutual respect."

By PAM MARTENS

As testimony to how Orwellian life has become under the outrages of Wall Street hubris, last week saw a comedian, who poses as an anchor on a fake news show, grab the reins of the Wall Street investigation from the actual investigators in Congress.

by: Matt Renner

Maverick Southern Methodist University economics professor Ravi Batra says the financial crisis is just one symptom of a long-festering economic disease - a disease caused by neglecting basic economic principles over the past 30 years. Comments made by President Obama seem to echo Dr. Batra's understanding of a domestic economy choked by consumer debt.

Roll em says Ron Paul!

In Search of the Elusive Israeli Peace Partner

By Samah Jabr
ASIDE FROM a few individual initiatives and such rare, fleeting phenomena as the new historians and refusenics, the “Israeli peace camp” remains far from being a significant political movement, whether in proportion to the Israeli population or to the level of progressiveness of its vision and platform. Indeed, the Israeli claim that “there is no peace partner” among the various Palestinian movements more accurately describes the Israeli factions.

Dems Introduce Vital Protections for Workers; Corporate America and the 'in their pocket' CongressCritters Respond With a Big Lie

By Joshua Holland

There is nothing more terrifying to corporate America than the prospect of dealing with its workforce on an even playing field

By: Sorcha Faal

In a sharp break with their Middle Eastern ally Israel, Russian Foreign Ministry sources are reporting today that President Obama has signaled his approval for United States participation in International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings seeking to indict Israeli leaders for ‘crimes against humanity’ over their wholesale destruction of Gaza and their apartheid policies implemented against the Palestinian peoples in the West Bank.

Rafidan
The Political Committee
Baghdad
The Republic of Iraq

Statement in Response to President Obama’s Remarks made on the 27th or February 2009 regarding the proclaimed ending to the occupation of The Republic of Iraq.

By Timothy V. Gatto

There are so many of my fellow countrymen that wish Barack Obama were really the answer to this nations errant wandering. So far, since World War II, we have seen this nation violate just about every humanitarian principle ever developed by a modern civilization. We have overthrown governments for monetary gain, for the industrialists and the agricultural elite, for resources and markets, defying international law, and succeeding. We have become not a representative republic; the form of government proposed in The Constitution by our forefathers, instead we seem to have opted for a military oligarchy.