Death penalty dying out
by David Swanson
Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq.
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Why we allow the destruction of our planet
by David Swanson
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct democracy, polls suggest we would be investing in green energy. But saying the right thing to a pollster on a phone or in a focus group is hardly the extent of what one ought sensibly to do when the fate of the world is at stake.
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Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
by Norman Solomon
The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled. Yet the Obama rhetoric about standing up for working people against “special interests” is as profuse as ever. Would you care for a spot of Kool-Aid at the Mad Hatter’s tea party?
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Don’t Vent, Organize -- And “Primary” a Democrat Near You
by Norman Solomon
Progressives often wonder why so many Republican lawmakers stick to their avowed principles while so many Democratic lawmakers abandon theirs. We can grasp some answers by assessing the current nationwide drive called “Primary My Congressman” -- a case study of how right-wing forces gain ground in electoral terrain where progressives fear to tread.
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Bank bailout recipient sends foreclosed food to landfill under sheriff's guard
by Gerry Bello
March 23, 2013 was a chilly day in Augusta, Georgia, when hundreds of families gathered to claim free food from a local supermarket that had been foreclosed. What greeted the hungry people of this neighborhood instead was a line of sheriff's deputies and barricades around the store's entire stock. Local charities had declined to pick up the food, diapers, tolietries, and clothing. Under instruction from the bank, Sun Trust, sheriffs deputies supervised as all the food was put into a dumpster while hungry families watched in horror and disbelief.
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North Carolinians will be arrested today
by Jennifer Farmer
(Durham, North Carolina) – In the face of unprecedented and far reaching attacks on North Carolinians ability to vote, go to school and properly care for their families, the North Carolina NAACP State Conference held a national media conference call at 3:00 pm to discuss a nonviolent civil disobedience “pray-in” at the North Carolina General Assembly later today. Leaders say the “pray-in” is the first of many nonviolent direct actions in the state where leaders will be arrested and jailed.
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South Side isn’t ready for health emergencies
by Jesse Jackson
As this is written, everyone wounded in the terror bombings at the Boston Marathon has survived his or her wounds. This remarkable testament to effective medical response stems largely from Boston’s exceptional health-care capacity.
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A tale of two tragedies
by Mike Ferner
On April 15, 29 year-old Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, 23 and Martin Richard, 8, left home to watch runners cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon. They and their families thought they would return that day as always. But they never did. As the world now knows, Krystle, Lu and Martin were killed and 170 other people were shattered by bombs that day.
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Reparations in order for 1963 bombing
by Rev. Jesse Jackson
It was terror that shook the nation. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Four little girls, all dressed in white — 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and 11-year-old Denise McNair — died in the explosion, and are remembered in history.
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The Orwellian warfare state of carnage and doublethink
by Norman Solomon
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion -- and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”
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Recent National Issues Articles

Factory Farming Cattle for Profit Speeds the Evolution of Disease
  December 28, 2003
  Sarah Clark

It's time to overrule the Supreme Court
  December 23, 2003
  Jeff Milchen

Diebold email: 'Make vote printouts too costly for MD'
  December 13, 2003
  Eric A. Smith

Is Bush a "Dry Drunk"? This is a Serious, Not Just a Provocative Question
  November 19, 2003
  Michael O'McCarthy

To Hell and Back
  November 19, 2003
  Bob Zimmerman

Coulter's Right-Wing Drag
  October 29, 2003
  Kellie Bean

Senator Byrd, major media spread coverage of Bush-Nazi nexus
  October 21, 2003
  Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

George W. and Alcoholism
  October 20, 2003
  Michael O'McCarthy

Emails Show Enron May Have Influenced FERC Probe On Calif Power Crisis, Refunds
  October 13, 2003
  Jason Leopold

So Rush just wanted a “Rush”; Media accept Limbaugh spin on illegal drug buys and use without questions
  October 12, 2003
  James Boyne, OpEdNews.com

George Bush, the Democrats, and Revisionist History
  October 12, 2003
  Gregory R. Weiher

Schwarzenegger's First Role As Governor-Elect of California: The Deregulator
  October 9, 2003
  Jason Leopold

Stay in Bed
  October 8, 2003
  Daniel Patrick Welch

As Bush Implodes, 30 Ways Desperate Right Wingers Will Respond
  October 8, 2003
  Rob Kall

Congressman John Conyers asks Karl Rove to resign
  October 8, 2003
  John Conyers

Siege Heil: the Nazi Nexus*
  October 6, 2003
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Loyal Opposition, Disloyal Regent
  October 1, 2003
  Daniel Patrick Welch

Time to act
  September 30, 2003
  Paul Rogat Loeb

National Missile Defense: Bad Science and Wasted Taxes
  September 22, 2003
  Jack Byrom

Republicans Seem to Want to Keep Computerized Voting Easily Corruptible
  September 10, 2003
  Rob Kall

How We Lost The Vote - How To Get It Back Again
  September 10, 2003
  Lynn Landes

We Can Win the War in Vietnam and other chestnuts from a not-so-bygone era
  September 5, 2003
  Daniel Patrick Welch

Lootocracy
  September 2, 2003
  Paul Loeb

The Business of E-Voting and How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Officee
  September 1, 2003
  Jason Leopold

After the Governor Sells Out On Requiring Electric and Hydrogen Cars in CA The Air Resources Board Reclassifies Gasoline Cars as "Clean"
  August 29, 2003
  Paul Fenn

The Ill-Begotten: Reflections of Unconstitutional Precedence
  August 24, 2003
  Philip J. Rappa

Storm and Strife
  August 24, 2003
  Philip J. Rappa

A New Psychiatric Diagnostic Category; Politician Syndrome; DSM-IV 333.333
  August 23, 2003
  Pam Ladds, opednews.com

Founding  Father of Neocon Philosophy Leo Strauss and Jefferson's Impending Death
  August 21, 2003
  Dr. Gerry Lower, Keystone, South Dakota

Faith-based drug wars: Bush recruits religious youth groups as ground troops
  August 21, 2003
  Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange

Voting Machine Fiasco
  August 20, 2003
  Lynn Landes

Blackouts Happen-California Power Crisis Should Have Been A Warning Sign To U.S.
  August 20, 2003
  Jason Leopold

Who is Michigan's Empire Man? Big Ten University President Does Bush's Bidding
  August 18, 2003
  Brian McKenna

Power Failure; Bush Disaster
  August 15, 2003
  Rob Kall

Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis
  August 15, 2003
  Jason Leopold

Our President is a Criminal
  July 28, 2003
  Daniel Patrick Welch

Yo Democrats! Wake Up!
  June 2, 2003
  Jason Leopold

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