By Ebony Utley — Avery Arlington, the main character of the novel “Elsewhere, California,” is someone you know: the awkward, only black girl in class, the girl hanging out at the 7-Eleven magazine rack wishing she was anybody but herself, and the artist whose work makes you uncomfortable.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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Wal-Mart workers at 28 stores across 12 states have launched the first retail worker strike in the company’s 50-year history, protesting against the chain’s attempts to “silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job.”
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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While admitting the gravest of the president’s left-wing betrayals, Kevin Baker over at Harper’s Magazine gives one of the more sober and compelling arguments for the continued support of Barack Obama in the 2012 election, but also raises the question of whether the man even wants the office.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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A Moscow appeals court has unexpectedly freed Yekaterina Samutsevich, the oldest of the three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot who were jailed for an anti-Putin performance earlier this year.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The U.S. is now the sole planetary Top Gun in a way that empire-builders once undoubtedly fantasized about: alone and essentially uncontested. By all the usual measuring sticks, it should be supreme in a historically unprecedented way. And yet it couldn’t be more obvious that it’s not.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Occupiers say the movement is about building connections, creating alternative media sources and learning to cope without government.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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The automaker that only just reclaimed its status as the world’s biggest three years after a major recall that raised questions about its vehicles’ safety, Toyota is once again asking customers to bring their vehicles in for inspection.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case against the nation’s telecommunications companies for cooperating with a once-secret wiretap program enacted by the Bush administration to monitor suspected terrorists.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Barry Lando — There’s a certain bitter irony in this week’s headlines in France about an Islamic terrorist network being rounded up in Strasbourg, Paris, Nice and Cannes, at the same time as the TV news shows French forces beginning their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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Stop-and-frisk is already considered a controversial tactic employed by the New York Police Department, but a recently released recording sheds light on just how discriminatory the practice can actually be. In the secretly taped audio, a 17-year-old named Alvin is heard being roughed up, threatened and demeaned by three officers as they stop and frisk him, all “for being a fucking mutt.”
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By William Pfaff — It is no surprise to find a businessman who is clueless with respect to America’s international relations, but when a businessman is running for the American presidency, you would expect an effort to read and learn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including a billionaire CEO trying to get his employees to vote for Romney and the craziest thing a Republican candidate has said since, well, Monday.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Michael Tracey —
It was America’s 44th president, not 2 million protesters occupying Tahrir Square, who tossed the Egyptian dictator out of office at the height of the Arab Spring, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said backstage at the presidential debate in Denver last week.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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Leftist Greek lawmaker Alexis Tsipras says austerity for his country and other hurting European nations is a form of blackmail intended to build a new Continental economy based on cheap labor, deregulation, reduced public spending and tax benefits for the wealthy.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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The environmental activist who was sentenced to two years in prison for disrupting the transfer of public land to the oil and gas industry will be released to a halfway house on Oct. 24 after spending 18 months in custody.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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American actor Danny Glover, who was in Venezuela monitoring the presidential election, says large numbers of Venezuelans are rejoicing at the prospect of the continuation of social programs that have benefited the public since recently re-elected President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will publish a book called “Cypherpunks” in late November, based on a conversation hosted on his television show with international “hacktivists” and co-authors Jacob Applebaum, Jeremie Zimmermann and Andy Mueller-Maguhn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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The West Virginia Broadcasters Association has excluded West Virginia Mountain Party gubernatorial candidate Jesse Johnson—the only candidate said to represent working people, women and the environment—from its statewide-televised debate Tuesday.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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In this Web-exclusive segment from Truthdig Radio, FAIR’s Peter Hart argues that the presidential debates are little more than theater and, “in reality, they don’t have much impact on voters.”
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Joe Conason — “It’s not easy to debate a liar,” complained an email from one observer of the first presidential debate—and there was no question about which candidate he meant.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt Romney makes a major foreign policy speech and a Republican lawmaker defends slavery.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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Here’s some not-so-good news for motorists in the Golden State at the beginning of the workweek: Gas prices in California have soared to record levels, rising 50 cents in the span of seven days. But relief may soon be on the way.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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