Citizens must demand that their respective Congressmen review the delegation of authority to the Judicial Branch under the U.S. Judicial Conference Act to not only conduct secret meetings with the Executive Branch, as in an upcoming Judicial Boondoggle, but more importantly to use court rules to deprive citizens of substantive rights.  This is because, "[t}here is no crueler tyranny than that which is exerc ...

By Elaine Leeder   For the last fifteen years, I have been running self-help groups and education programs in some of the most notorious prisons in the United States. At both Elmira Correctional Facility in New York and San Quentin State Prison in California, I have met men who would be considered the “worst of the worst.” And yet when I get to know them, I find that they are human beings like you or m ...

Rick Hess's Straight Up blog at Education Week proves often to be valuable not for his intended messages, but for what he reveals about education reformers committed to choice and competition as paradigms for that reform. In his "Sanctimonious Scolding Isn't a Great Strategy for Promoting School Choice" posting, Hess makes an important statement at the end: "Rather than obey the moral instruction of do-good ...

Imagine that you are an evil advisor to the criminal 1%, and faced with this problem: the 99% are developing geometrically-increasing recognition of the 1%’s “emperor has no clothes” obvious War Crimes and economic looting, despite corporate media’s propaganda to lie and distract from those crimes (full documentation here, PuppetGov video to see it here). You look to the future and see eventual arrests of t ...

One can only thank Cliff Kincaid, the Director of the AIM Center for his investigative journalism and he can be contacted at [email protected] for his fine reporting on the current state of the newspaper, the Washington Post.  On Thursday, May 10, 2012 The Washington Post Company held its annual meeting for stockholders.  According to Kincaid: “AIM was there because of our ownership of company stock, e ...

California Governor Jerry Brown claims California has no option but to cut public services to address a state budget deficit of ~ $16 billion: “You name it, and we’ve got to cut it.” He lies. There are three immediate options to completely solve this problem: California could be its own bank to issue interest-free credit to itself to close the budget deficit, similar to what North Dakota does as the only st ...

The Avengers has earned over $1 billion in ticket sales; this colossal amount of money communicates that the story inspires the hero in all of us. Americans can direct their heroism here: Because of the tremendous sacrifices of all our families through two world wars, the US authored war law into treaty status; US “Supreme Law” in Article 6 of the US Constitution. War law is crystal-clear: a nation can neve ...

US war law is crystal-clear in letter and intent: no nation can use their military in armed attack unless they are under attack by another nation’s government. This is the basic history and government lesson that all our families sacrificed to teach us through two world wars. The US is in obvious violating of this essential law, both now and in the US war-murders of 20 to 30 million human beings since World ...

Representative Dennis Kucinich rolled with statements from the AFL-CIO president for renewed infrastructure and jobs to explain in two minutes how monetary reform accomplishes both goals. Monetary reform is accomplished through H.R. 2990, a bill Dennis introduced to Congress in 2011. Monetary and credit reform can be understood with three simple areas of facts taught in basic economics: The US does not have ...

Following US and UK “leaders” Obama and Cameron’s threats to war-murder Iranians under ongoing similar non-specific accusations, US corporate media now “reports” that an un-named alleged official from an un-named nation provided a generic drawing alleged to be from an Iran military base consistent with nuclear weapon development. A generic search provided 8 million results from the initial AP “news”, such a ...