"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being."
- Lord Acton
07-03-09
Lawsuit Accuses Xe(Blackwater) Contractors of Murder, Kidnapping & Child Prostitution
A just-amended lawsuit alleges six additional instances of unprovoked attacks on Iraqi civilians by Blackwater mercenaries. Three people, including a 9-year-old boy, are said to have died. Also added to the suit is a racketeering count accusing Blackwater founder Erik Prince of running an ongoing criminal enterprise involved in, among other things, kidnapping and child prostitution. Click the image below to read more...
Californias Financial Emergency
California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to close the state's worsening budget deficit, adding a new measure of indignity to a state sinking deeper into dysfunction. Click the image below to read more...
Largest Marine Offensive Since Vietnam
According to media reports, some 4,000 Marines and 650 Afghan troops were involved in a massive operation, launched early Thursday morning, to reclaim the Helmand River Valley from Taliban control. Click the image below to read more...
Join the TEA Parties on July 4th!
Get involved people!!!!!!! Click the image below to read more...
Growing Up Homeless
Working people are making wages equivalent to 2002 incomes, on average. Most working class people have seen their wages erode nearly 20 percent in the last 20 years. Workers are increasingly agreeing to take pay cuts to keep their jobs and their health benefits. The latest fallout from the economic downturn is the rise of homelessness among working, middle class people. Click the image below to read more...
07-02-09
Goldman Sachs The Fourth Branch of the U.S. Government
Quietly and almost unnoticed by most Americans, the US Federal Government introduced a fourth branch to its political structure in 2006. Click the image below to read more...
Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Being Seized by Israeli Navy
Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other activists. Click the image below to read more...
Vaccine Expert Reveals What You Should Know Before You Roll Up Your Sleeve
A study by the Harvard Medical School of Public Health confirmed that public health officials could convince most people in the U.S. to alter their daily lives, follow government mandates and do as they are told after only a small amount of hyping that a deadly global pandemic was eminent. It documented that people tend to look to the government as a sort of Big Daddy who has their best interests at heart. People think Big Daddy will take care of them and they don't have to bother taking care of themselves. Click the image below to read more...
Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of Government
There was no reason to pass Real ID, and there is no reason to enact a replacement after state legislatures shot REAL ID to pieces. Nothing has happened since 2005 to make the government more trustworthy or to make liberty less valuable. It is vital that we never permit our rulers to treat all Americans like criminal suspects all the time. The government's incompetence at protecting Americans must not be converted into a political entitlement to destroy all privacy. Click the image below to read more...
How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
In Chicago, there's a push to replace public schools with military academies. This model may soon spread to the rest of the country. Click the image below to read more...
07-01-09
Why a College Degree Isn't Worth It
The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
A student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay, and the employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards are slipping. Click the image below to read more...
Hugo Chavez Threatens Military Action in Honduras
Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's coup against his leftist ally, Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran President. Click the image below to read more...
Cynthia McKinney Reportedly Taken Captive By Israeli Navy
The latest from www.freegaza.org reports that the humanitarian vessel Spirit of Humanity has been attacked and boarded by the Israelis 23 miles off the coast of Gaza. Former US Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is among the 21 human rights workers taken prisoner off the ship. Click the image below to read more...
Israeli Army Amasses Troops & Military Hardware Along Lebanese Border
The Israeli Army stepped up its presence along the border with Lebanon deploying armored tanks and setting up fortifications as it intensified airspace violations in the area, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Thursday. In unusual military activity, the Israeli Army deployed Merkava tanks and soldier carriers, among other armored vehicles, along the barb-wired fence separating Shebaa Farms from liberated Lebanese territories. Click the image below to read more...
Why Does Our Government Still Spy On, Arrest and Persecute Dissidents?
One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions. Click the image below to read more...
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