NEWS JUNKIE POST

In his new book, The Family, journalist Jeff Sharlet takes us inside Christian fundamentalism's most elite, disturbing and secretive organization. The Family is fundamentalism's avant-garde, on a mission to wage a spiritual war in the halls odf American power and around the globe. ...

The final stroke in the Republican master plan to retake congress has just been released. It involves a purity list of 10 resolutions that candidates pledge to fulfill, in a mirror of the Contract on America in 1994. According to the New York Times, “The battle among Republicans over what ...

Today, about 49 million Americans experience what the US government refers to as food insecurity with hunger. It is Thanksgiving, a perfect time to reflect on hunger. Hunger is a miserable feeling and a powerful word that rightly produces and outrage. ...

Today, the White House announced that President Obama will attend the UN sponsored climate conference in Copenhagen. The US President is scheduled to deliver a speech in Copenhagen on December 9, on his way to Oslo, Norway, where he will receive the Nobel Peace prize on December 10. In the ...

The following lines begin Ralph Ellison’s masterful novel, Invisible Man: “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—I might ...

Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in ...

According to the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in a report released today, the levels of all greenhouse gases continue to increase exponentially. In 2008, global concentration ...

Sixty five world leaders have already confirmed they will attend next month's UN climate conference in Copenhagen. President Obama has not confirmed his attendance yet, and if the US President doesn't go it will give a serious blow to the conference outcome. ...

Almost 46 years ago, on January 8 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty in his first State of The Union speech. Making poverty a national priority set in motion a series of bills and acts such as head start, food stamps, Medicare & Medicaid. The programs initiated ...

We have a “right” to exercise free speech in the US, but that does not mean we fully exercise that right. In fact, we tend to do everything to ensure that free speech—with all its implications—does not really exist. But if we continue to tell ourselves that we do have ...

Whether Sarah Palin will make a serious bid for president in 2012 is up for grabs. But Palinpalooza is certainly running. And the media seems to be obsessed with it. I've never seen anything like this. Last year's losing VP Candidate, the quitter half term Governor of Alaska, the self-anointed ...

I was back in the center of the anthill. Downtown San Francisco is a loud and busy place for a country boy like myself. Everyone seems to be in a hurry, but having a sense of purpose and looking good along the way. Cabs and buses roar along crowded streets ...

Despite President Obama's executive order, signed on January 22 ND 2009, the Guantanamo facility, which has been a thorn in America's record on human rights, will be open for business after the one year deadline. Yet, 9 months ago, the closing of the shameful facility was clearly on the ...

It's tough enough being a New York Mets fan these days; so when I met a man who wanted to own a Mets jacket with Bernie Madoff's name emblazoned on the back I couldn't resist a friendly impromptu interrogation. Why would anyone want a piece of such notorious memorabilia? And ...