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Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon papers, says the FISA court is a sham and warrantless wiretapping, which has being going on for years befo...
Only one proposal promises relief for millions of students whose loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this July—Sen.
Professor and activist Lawrence Lessig tells Bill that government should be utilizing technology to protect our liberties as much as it does to invade our privacy.
Virtually no one should be surprised to learn that climate talks currently underway in Bonn, Germany -- the latest venue for the decades-old and largely fruitless pursuit of international agreement on global warming action -- are descending into...
Abortion opponents are chipping away at reproductive rights from all angles — and one particularly insidious attack on women’s health is currently advancing in states across the country.
There are plenty of people working in the media who don't have much use for whistleblowers--and they've been having a field day going after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers' rights and the public's right to know what the government is doing, the trial of Bradley Manning is of enormous consequence. I...
An in-depth look at how the IRS was treating conservative and Tea Party groups — and a look at what it's supposed to do.
Lawmakers are beginning to call out the fact that social welfare groups should not be subsidized by the American taxpayers if they are violating the law with political activity.
Men are just as smart as women. Women in the real world have generally been the smarter sex. Inasmuch as it is still a male dominated society on paper, women allow most outcomes.
by JENNIFER STEINHAUER, New York Times
Senator Roy Blunt sat silently for nearly an hour as his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee questioned one military leader after another on Tuesday about what they were doing to address the problem of sexual assault in the military, and then assessed their responses: “Stunningly bad.”
In particular, Mr. Blunt chided Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations, for displaying scant knowledge of how military allies of the United States had dealt with sexual assault in their ranks, and for thanking Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, for “the tip” that other countries had grappled with the issue.
“Has anybody who works for you been asking this?” Mr. Blunt, Republican of Missouri, asked with clear exasperation.
In a rare appearance together, a majority of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — as well as the commandant of the Coast Guard and other military officials — testified before the committee about how the military should approach the problem as Congress prepares to vote on several measures that would significantly change military policy.
“Discipline is the heart of the military culture, and trust is its soul,” said Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and the chairman of the committee. “The plague of sexual assault erodes both the heart and the soul.”
Senators from both parties pressed the leaders, at times using strong language, about why, decades after the full integration of women into the military, the problem seems to have worsened. Senator John McCain, an
Arizona Republican, recalled meeting with a woman whose daughter was considering entering the military if Mr. McCain, a former naval aviator, could offer his “unqualified support” of the choice. “I could not,” he said. [MORE]
President Obama's signature healthcare law will increase the number of self-employed Americans by making it easier for them to obtain health coverage, according to new research . The Urban Institute predicted that the number of self-employed U.
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Lawrence Lessig and Bill Moyers explore how we can protect our privacy when Big Government and Big Business morph into Big Brother.
The first of a three-part series examining the history of the US surveillance network, its origins in the SHAMROCK project. For 30 years, NSA clandestinely spied on Americas with the help of corporations.
Reconciling the left and right wing of politics is the only way forward by Tony Miall The adversarial ‘left and right wing’ approach to politics is fast approaching its used-by date. The problem is that it is being revealed as impotent whe...
If you took stock of America in the early 21st century and thought about how to create the best governing system possible, you would certainly start with uti...
WASHINGTON — The U.S.director of national intelligence late Thursday confirmed the existence of a secret program in which the government has tapped into the central servers of nine leading Internet companies to search for data potentially linked to...
The best way to beat the ever-prevalent right vs left agenda is to find the things that bring us together in one common purpose and unite around that.
Revelations that the federal government is collecting massive amounts of data about telephone calls and Internet traffic has some people nervous that George Orwell's vision of Big Brother constantly watching them has come true.
Current TV contributor Jacki Schechner reports on a recently released NBC/WSJ poll that shows that approval ratings for the Affordable Care Act have dropped ...
14 July 1994. Former member Webster Tarpley gives a class on 2,000 years of rule by Oligarchy, both its headquarters, which has existed within the empires of...
by CARL GIBSON
Keeping our nation divided as right vs left is an agenda supported by both Fox News and MSNBC. The media and the politicians both profit from Americans believing they should hate their fellow Americans. And oddly enough, the one thing that unites the traditional “right” and “left” in this country is our hatred for those same media organizations and politicians that make money by regularly lying to us. The best way to beat them is to find the things that bring us together in one common purpose and unite around that.
An article in the Atlantic last week talked about how the dominant liberal narrative is broken. The argument that government is inherently good and is necessary to provide things like Social Security, Medicare and national parks has some truth to it, and worked well for both parties in the mid-twentieth century. Democrats and Republicans from FDR to Eisenhower won landslide elections using the good-government narrative. But now that our government is captive to corporations and their lobbyists like the US Chamber of Commerce, Americans of all ideological leanings are united in the belief that our current government, as it stands, is completely out of touch and needs radical change from outside the political system to do it. MORE
Via Michael Charney
People Over Politics' Matthew "Mad Matter" Benzion delivers a poetic civics lesson to activists in Miami, Florida on May 25, 2013. Visit People Over Politics...
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