One Nation Rally. October 2, 2010, the National Mall, Washington D.C.

If you can attend, it is this weekend. It will be the biggest event on the Mall in many years, a very large number...

Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I

In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet...

The “R” Word

In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,...

The Bush-Cheney Pro-Poverty Programs

In 8 years in office, Bill Clinton, in addition to creating 22 million jobs, left office having lifted 5 million people out of poverty....

Expansion, Not Austerity

We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...

Disaster in West Virginia

There is no way to discuss oil spills without stopping to make a comment or two on the crime, the rape of the Appalachian...

Helen Thomas and the Problem of Palestine

Helen Thomas is a long-time, award-winning, ground-breaking reporter and columnist for the Associated Press, one of the remaining news services. She has,...