Mich. passes 'financial martial law' bill (Jennifer Epstein)

Gov. Rick Snyder requested the expanded state powers the legislation provides. | AP Photo Mar. 16, 2011 (Politico) -- Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency f ...

Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (Chris Hedges)

Mar. 14, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and fede ...

Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)

A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President O ...

Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)

A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...

'I Don’t Think There Is Any Need for a Law against Fraud' (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Those who say that banks don’t need to be regulated by government are either naïve, sucking up to rich and powerful bankers, or hoping ...

Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)

Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers w ...

Revolution Handbook for Americans (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 2011 -- As recently presented, there is global respect for and use of the classic and brilliant work by Gene Sharp “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” It ...

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? (Matt Taibbi)

Illustration by Victor Juhasz Financial crooks brought down the world's economy -- but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them Feb. 16, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Over drinks at a ...

America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)

Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of ...

House Derails Extending Anti-Terrorist Provisions (James Rowley)

Feb. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans failed to muster the votes needed to extend for nine months the government’s authority to conduct roving wiretaps of suspected terrorists, along with two ...

The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread (Paul Craig Roberts)

Jan. 28, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- While people in Tunisia and Egypt have taken to the streets in attempts to gain their liberty, Americans are losing their liberty with minimal protest. E ...