Privatizing Liberty

Posted: 11/17/11 09:17 PM ET

Richard (RJ) Eskow

As Mayor Bloomberg's forces swooped down on Occupy Wall Street, news reports described the "hundreds of police and…

This story was corrected at 6:30 p.m. to clarify that two separate bills are being introduced

A bill to stop "insider trading" in Congress is gaining momentum with two new Senate supporters.

Watch the "60 Minutes" report below:

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., today introduced the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2011, which would prohibit members…

New Deployment Has Something to Do With China, Officials Insist

The Obama Administration didn’t get the permanent military presence it sought in Iraq, but they…

By CALVIN WOODWARD and NANCY BENAC | AP

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Did you really think these jobs would go to Americans?

New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US

First, China made cut-price clothes and knick-knacks.…

John Boering

My take on the communications shutdown:

In what is obviously a muscle flexing exercise meant to show the public just how much power and control the federal government really has, all communications will be cut off for an estimated three minutes on November 9^th, 2011. 

Claiming this is a test of the emergency response system, the terror alert system, and any other excuse…