Raising My Voice Without Freedom By Liliana Valdez   Here in this sea of grief they cover my voice and tie me! I can’t say anything. This intrigues me, it kills me, but at the same time relieves me. I’m free but I can’t take my freedom. I wish I could fly to escape from this prison. You have called me foreign with despise! Listen to me this time please! Let me embrace my freedom. It’s not gossip, I’m not ly ...

by Don Weitz In a democratic system of thought control…[it is] necessary to take over the entire spectrum of opinion, the entire spectrum of discussion, so that nothing can be thinkable apart from the party line; not just that it be obeyed, but that you can’t even think of anything else. – Noam Chomsky, linguist and political activist The myths and stereotypes surrounding “mental illness” and the “violent m ...

By Skip Robinson Ph.D. The U. S. Congressional Supercommittee fell from the sky in flames. (Not that it was any great surprise.) It could not reach its goal to manage a bipartisan agreement for $1.2 trillion or more in new revenues and cuts – which could have significantly begun to flag the lowering of the federal deficit. Their failure, however, does not at all absolve the U. S. as a country from doing mor ...

By Megan Whelan Thursday, January 26, 7:00 am, hundreds of community activists and human rights defenders gather outside Guatemala City’s national court to witness former dictator Efraín Rios Montt testify on the gross military atrocities and human rights violations that occurred during his de-facto presidency from 1982 to 1983. In solidarity, thousands more both in Guatemala and internationally intently fo ...

by Cheryl Welsh, January 2012 President Obama directed his Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Commission) to review human subject protections to "determine if Federal regulations and international standards adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government." Obama ordered the report last year in response to revelatio ...

An Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed Regarding the CSU-Israel Study Abroad Program The CSU system has recently taken steps to reinstate the Israel Study Abroad Program. It was suspended in 2002 because of costs and because of the U.S. State Department travel warning on travel to Israel. We strongly urge you not to reinstate the CSU Israel Study Abroad Program. http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/studyabr ...

by Peter Apanel As reported in the New York Times on November 28, 2011, the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is having to adjust to a dramatic decline in the sponsorship money needed to pay for all those very expensive, flower-covered floats. But there's an interesting sidebar to this story that wasn't covered by the Times, and involves media self-censorship going back over 80 years. Sinc ...

By Peter Apanel In recent years, media stories about questionable, ill-advised, publicly-subsidized sports stadium deals that benefit wealthy team owners have become commonplace. But here in Portland, Oregon, the story is different. That's because there is clear evidence of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. And most notably, the story involves the Portland Timbers, a Major League Soccer franchise ...

By Peter Phillips The international concentration of wealth and military power is endangering not only the personal freedoms and life chances of billions of people, but the potentiality for life on earth to simply exist. The US-NATO military-industrial-media empire operates in support of transnational corporations and the central banks primarily as the enforcer of International Monetary Fund/World Bank’s fi ...

by S. Paul Forrest AmericaRevealed.org   No Republican campaign speech ever goes on for long without mention of illegal immigration and the desire to quell it. Though the debate itself invokes a clear and present problem, the persistent use of it as a political jumping point without consideration or offering of reasoned solutions, continues to cloud the reality of its underreported dark side. From drug ...