March 13, 2010

Spencer S. Hsu writes in the Washington Post:

In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the…

March 13, 2010

Steve Elliott writes

on Toke

of the Town:

Despite medical marijuana being legal in Michigan, WalMart has fired a cancer patient and former employee of the year who

tested positive for the drug, which was recommended by his doctor.

“I was terminated because I failed a drug…

By Allison Kilkenny

March 10, 2010 "True/Slant" -- Bob Herbert recently wrote about the overzealous enforcement of “peace officers” assigned to New York City schools. The officers are accused of detaining, searching, handcuffing, and arresting students for silly things like drawing on…

March 10, 2010

Via YouTube:

A man named Splitting the Sky, tried to arrest former President George W. Bush for war crimes. He crossed police lines on one of President Bush’s visits to Canada and was arrested. He now faces criminal charges in court, the trial began…

March 7, 2010

Thanks to Signs of the Times for posting these two YouTube videos.

In retrospect, does it not sound terribly naive that we would hope a U.S. president whose candidacy was selected and backed by our most powerful bankers would be permitted, just maybe, perhaps by virtue of his being black and well spoken, to modify the intense imperialism that has characterized all previous presidencies since, if not including, that of Teddy Roosevelt and…

March 5, 2010

Here is another chapter from Russ Kick’s classic bite-size Disinformation book 50

Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003. For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, The Memory Hole.…