House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that he hasn't received any outreach from President Barack Obama since taking the gavel in the lower congressional chamber. But Boehner said he believed the two could get together at a later point in time. "He's been busy with a lot of things, and I think h
Protesters from a spectrum of liberal groups vented their anger outside a political retreat run by Charles and David Koch, billionaire brothers who have financed conservative causes.
Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge, using their new House majority to push to repeal the president's health care law, restrict abortions and highlight other social issues i
"My Love is unconditional (or it wouldn't be Love); and so therefore unconditional is my rejection of violent behavior (violating what is right for the individual, or group), wherever, whenever and to whomever it occurs." SL
REGISTER NOW FOR MARCH 6-7, 2011: IFPB and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation announce 3rd Grassroots Advocacy Training & Lobby Day. Register now and join us in DC on March 6-7, 2011!
A massive archive of documents leaked to Al Jazeera and Britain 's Guardian newspaper offers irrefutable proof that years of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians have been an empty sham. The papers make clear that the time has come for Palestinians and anyone interested in the cause of
"GOP's 1 Mission: Fascist Corporate Displacement of US Gov of, by, for the People; and of Obama and others who are FOR the people. I wish I were kidding." SL
"We now have an economy that is destroying its natural support systems. … We are liquidating the earth's natural assets to fuel our consumption," Academy Fellow Lester Brown writes in his latest book, World on the Edge, the must-read book of 2011.
At least seven Cabinet secretaries to President George W. Bush took politically motivated trips at taxpayer expense while aides falsely claimed they were traveling on official business, the independent Office of Special Counsel said Monday night in concluding a three-year probe.
A campaign has begun to defend a longtime professor and activist from the frequent attacks of Glenn Beckâand the death threats that the attacks have brought with them. Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old professor and political theorist, has been the subject of harsh criticism by Beck for years.
"The Catholic Bosses distract from their Evil with the Abortion ruse, like the Nazi-Israelis distract using the Holocaust, from their extermination of the Palestinians." SL
The government recaptured a record $4 billion last year from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other providers of care that defrauded federal health-care programs, the Obama administration reported Monday.