Featured News
- LONDON—The International Monetary Fund urged the U.K. government to count...
- Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the ...
- President Barack Obama knows the dangers of not going far enough or fast en...
- Act would boost employment now for the many who need it, eliminate residual...
- The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely ...
- Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this divers...
- "Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here." A woman was giv...
- The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense ...
- What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and s...
- The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat op...
- One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brow...
- After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including t...
- Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have...
- They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, so...
- Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a libera...
- Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party...
- The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell gam...
- Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have close...
- The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtai...
- More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation ...
- The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are...
- A deeply flawed conventional wisdom is developing that despite warnings fro...
- A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the atta...
- The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health care s...
- My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was f...
Chicago’s schools won’t close quietly
Written by Kenzo Shibata | In These Times
Is Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett ready for the city's newly organized teachers union? On Wednesday at 4pm, a coalition of Chicago teachers, parents, students and community members met at Daley Plaza to voice their displeasure with the announcement last week by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett that 61 Chicago Public Schools will be closed before the opening of the 2013-2014 school year.
Obama: Let’s rebuild our infrastructure
Written by Josh Lederman | Salon
While visiting a Miami port Friday, the president laid out a plan to create new jobs through public works projects . Trying to show that the economy remains a top priority, President Barack Obama promoted a plan to create construction and other jobs by attracting private money to help rebuild roads, bridges and other public works projects.
President Obama Goes To Israel...and What Happens, Exactly?
Written by Phyllis Bennis | IPS
Israel visit elicits beautiful talk, but talk is cheap.
Pentagon urged to stop stalling, start planning defense cuts
Written by David Alexander | Reuters
(Reuters) - The Pentagon needs to stop stalling and start figuring out how to cut its budget by $50 billion annually for the foreseeable future in a way that preserves national security, defense analysts from across the political spectrum said on Thursday.
Budget Deal Opens ‘Age of Austerity’ for Federal Agencies
Written by Jim Snyder and James Rowley | Bloomberg
The spending bill Congress passed shows $1.2 trillion in budget cuts that weren’t supposed to happen are now part of the political landscape.
Lawmakers approved the so-called continuing resolution March 21 averting a government shutdown while giving a handful of agencies more flexibility to meet the mandated reductions under sequestration.
Lockheed Martin at the Trough
Written by Lawrence S Wittner | LA Progressive
What do hungry children and the world’s largest military contractor have in common? Not much, it seems. At the very time when (thanks to sequestration) state governments are cutting back aid to low-income women and their children, the government of the State of Maryland seems en route to providing the Lockheed Martin Corporation with a handout worth millions of dollars.
A Post-Iraq Security Consensus?
Written by Jeremiah Goulka | The America Prospect
Is the country ready for a new (and cheaper) way of doing national security?
On the tenth anniversary of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, we may be witnessing a seismic shift in America's politics of national security.
Men With Loaded Rifles Intimidate Moms Gathered At Gun Safety Rally
Written by Igor Volsky | Think Progress
Several men with assault rifles and hand guns crashed a Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action event in Indianapolis, Indiana on Thursday and stood silently as the state chapter of Moms Demand Action held a rally in favor of limiting the availability of military style weapons and universal background checks.
Arrests at Chicago schools protest
Written by Gary Younge | The Guardian
More than 100 demonstrators taking part in mass civil disobedience were arrested in Chicago on Wednesday as several thousand people marched against the largest proposed round of school closings in recent memory.
Many carried placards proclaiming "Strong Schools, Strong Neighbourhoods" and "Protect Our Children" while chanting "Whose Schools, Our Schools" and calling for mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation.
Top Pentagon thinker bemoans “civilian subjugation to the military.”
Written by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | Boston
WASHINGTON _ Blistering charges of misplaced power and a morally bankrupt culture in the nation’s “military-industrial complex” are rarely leveled by one of the defense establishment’s own.
But that is exactly what an instructor of the military’s rising stars lobbed on Tuesday when he very purposely engaged in friendly fire at a defense budget conference co-hosted by the Cambridge-based Project on Defense Alternatives.
84 House Democrats Say ‘No’ to Austerity
Written by Cole Stangler | In These Times
The Congressional Progressive Caucus’ budget may have failed, but it failed well.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives took up floor debate and voted on three Democratic alternatives to the Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) budget—the first a version of the Senate Democrats’ budget, the second a proposal from the Black Caucus, and the third a budget crafted by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which with 72 members is the largest Democratic Caucus in the House.
Citizens Respond to Vote on Paul Ryan Budget
Written by Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Residents Call on GOP to Pass a Budget that Creates Jobs and Opportunity, Not Slashes Programs that Give Hard Working Americans a Fair Shot at the American Dream
Baltimore to DC Bus Tour for Prosperity Not Austerity
Written by PRLOG | Press Release
Concerned People undertake Baltimore to DC Bus Tour for Prosperity Not Austerity Marylanders will tour through the state, meet the tour Rally in D.C. on March 23 Progressive Democrats of America, other organizations cosponsor important action
Obama’s Nixonian Precedent
Written by Mary L Dudziak | The New York Times
ON March 17, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon began a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, sending B-52 bombers over the border from South Vietnam. This episode, largely buried in history, resurfaced recently in an unexpected place: the Obama administration’s “white paper” justifying targeted killings of Americans suspected of involvement in terrorism.
PDA In Your State
