Beating Back the Boeing Behemoth

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:58:38 +0000

Frida Berrigan

“We’re gonna beat back the Boeing attack! We’re gonna beat back the Boeing attack!”(Photo by Bartosz Brzezinski, via Flickr)

Can Obama Stop Casino Capitalism?

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:36:59 +0000

Shamus Cooke

The recent JPMorgan scandal where billions of dollars were lost in risky bets has re-ignited the move to properly regulate the U.S. banking system.

Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific Heritage Month

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:20:17 +0000

Moé Yonamine

“They’re Latinos…I think they’re some kind of farm workers.”Japanese Peruvians en route to U.S. Internment Camps. April 2, 1942. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. National Archive)

“No, they’re Asians with name tags.”

And then a student in a quiet voice walked by me slowly and muttered, “I think something really bad is happening to them.”

Elections Won't Bring Progressive Change, So What Can?

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:08:46 +0000

Jack A. Smith

Less than six months before the November presidential elections in an exceptionally distressed United States the narrow, unpleasant parameters of political possibility are emerging. Two alternatives confront the American people, both to the right of center.

1. If President Barack Obama is reelected, with the Democratic Party retaining control of at least one chamber of Congress, there probably will be four more years of economic stagnation, high unemployment, increasing poverty and inequality, more wars, erosions of civil liberties and global warming.

A Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees?

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:00:53 +0000

Newly published scientific evidence is bolstering calls for greater regulation of some of the world’s most widely used pesticides and genetically modified crops. (Photo by Brian Wolfe)

Earlier this year, three independent studies linked agricultural insecticides to colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that leads honeybees to abandon their hives.

Fracked and Burned: The Tyranny of the Corporate Tea Party

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:27:21 +0000

Caroline Arnold

From a letter to the editor of the Record Courier May 20, 2012, from Tom Zawistowski, Founder, President and Executive Director, Portage County TEA Party:

In Quebec, A Revolution of Love, Hope and Community

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:50:36 +0000

Ethan Cox

In almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution of society as we know it.'Casseroles' come alive every night at 8pm. (Rabble.ca)

Memorial Day Thoughts on National Defense Spending

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:16:40 +0000

Robert Reich

We can best honor those who have given their lives for this nation in combat by making sure our military might is proportional to what America needs.US soldiers on patrol in Garmser District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan in this file photo.

The United States spends more on our military than do China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, and Germany put together.

Treaty Like It’s 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:04:38 +0000

Raj Patel

Although it seems they fell out of fashion after the 1999 WTO protests, trade agreements are still being drafted.

Arson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans Sends Shockwaves

jon — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:50:33 +0000

Jordan Flaherty

Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women of color, was the victim of a break-in and arson late Thursday night.