The Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting announced this week went to David Barstow of The New York Times for articles revealing Penta...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney is today claiming that his government's tortures led to "success" -- he demands "wh...

The Bush government's effort to prosecute foreign detainees with secret military tribunals makes little sense in terms of vital operatio...

"We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless" - Óscar Romero, Roman Catholic Archbishop; later murdered by right-wing death ...

Some specifics of U.S. Government-sponsored torture have recently been released by the Obama administration. The fact that cruel & horri...

What's a Commie? Answering such a question was previously easy. They were enemies of America; we patriotically tried to to roll 'em ...

I hate to see government waste. I also dislike populist bullies, and those who build reputation by deceiving people. What of the folk who pu...

US President Barack Obama has thus far excused the illegal activities of the prior administration. He's doubtless busy with assorted cha...

(No - this isn't a political essay on Afghanistan / Iraq) We've just returned from a driving trip in Sardinia, where we came across ...

Here's an easy-to-read indictment of failure: Quotes & facts of the (now past) U.S. administration from the office of U.S. Rep. Sten...

Back in September 2008, under the laissez-faire "free market" regime of George W. Bush (Dick Cheney presiding), we were suddenly i...

"What the Obama administration is doing is far worse than nationalization: it is ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the so...

Our world has too many examples where ignorance results in rape (actual or metaphorical). Consider here the despoiling of peoples, nations a...

Administrators team with media in maintaining orthodox thought among the inhabitants of a command region. The US Government under President ...

US President Obama's pro-choice support is being attacked by the Roman Catholic Church and ultra-Right activists. These 'womb wrangl...

The British government is in the news as discussing an end to the ban on the heir to the British throne marrying a Roman Catholic (the monar...

Major General Geoffrey D. Miller now retired. Celebrated in the US Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. Maj. Gen. Miller’s awards include seven L...

Dick Cheney / George W. Bush will never be accused of elegance. They are fundamentally small & vindictive. They utilized fear to corral ...

Ambassador Charles Freeman explains tactics by the newly coined Lieberman-Likud Lobby, that "plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency...

A sad situation: people care, but lazily do nothing. Many people sit back and watch Obama working hard, winning some & losing some, and ...

The case of Bernard Madoff is frightening. The government regulatory agencies saw virtually nothing - even when irregularities were reported...

When... When would you try? When would you know? When to resist? Would you wait ... & ride the transports? Would you pause ... till disi...

Today I was shocked at receiving last year's Annual Report of the Tokyu Foundation for Inbound Students (財団法人とうきゅう外来留学生奨学財団; I'm a r...

Hawaiians are again being restricted from properly enjoying our inheritance. People such as attorney H. William Burgess and activist Kenneth...

Not being a financial insider, I didn't lose or gain money with Bernie Madoff; he was unknown to me prior to his arrest. Many people wer...

The banking establishment is suffering a downgrade of status as they seek public bailout funds. Use of the term "banksters" (adapt...

The economic crisis is not the sole blame of bungler bankers. Yet too many of these former plunderers are unrepentant and anti-reform. Those...

A thought in the night Must be scribbled on paper Before I forget Twitching fingers mean That I’m counting syllables In my new haiku Windswe...

Many times I've been bothered when opening files in MS-Office: I'll seek to open a recently-used file and rather than guess at its n...

Can one be a reformer or crusader in the USA? Is it really possible to "work for the people" and the public interest? Perhaps. But...