SHARE        Monday, January 31, 2011
Miguel Del Valle Emerges as Chicago's Progressive Mayoral candidate Miguel Del Valle emerges as Chicago's progressive candidate for mayor. Will he be able to break through the virtual media black out?

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 13, 2010
Beating up Nancy Pelosi Apparently feisty and fighting women enrage the GOP and their corporate sponsors. That's one conclusion to be drawn by reports that more money was spent, and more commercials aired, attacking the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, than any other congressional leader - ever.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 3, 2010
Glenn Beck rally: sound and fury, signifying ... ? The much vaunted "Restoring Honor" rally, hosted by Fox News' Glenn Beck, promoted 24/7 on that station and others, and bankrolled by far-right billionaires, drew an estimated 87,000 people, according to CBS News.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Big Coal backing Rand Paul, GOP In Kentucky, coal is king. And now, it seems, coal operators are trying to crown their princes in this year's mid-term elections.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 10, 2010
UAW workers cheer president but job woes persist Autoworkers were thrilled to have the president at the Ford factory in Chicago. But it was tempered by the continuing high unemployment figures, and worries that people won't be able to buy the new cars produced.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 12, 2010
Obama and secret wars News flash. The United States engages in secret war.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 6, 2010
Chicago Students Protest Drastic Cuts; Ask "Where's Our Bailout?" Hundreds of Chicago high school students rallied here May 5, protesting devastating teacher layoffs and program cuts to public schools.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 29, 2010
90,000 protest U.S. base in Okinawa More than 90,000 people took to the streets in Okinawa, Japan, on April 25 to demand that a controversial U.S. military base be closed.

(16 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 22, 2010
Chomsky, fascism and the working class Famed linguistics professor and left-wing icon Noam Chomsky made remarks recently that gave me pause. Chomsky, 81, said he recalls the rise of Hitler in Germany, and recent political developments like the tea party movement bring him back to that frightening time.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 17, 2010
Truckers Find their Voice on Twitter Hundreds of over-the-road truck drivers every day use the social networking site Twitter during their long down times.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 4, 2010
Obama counters 'drill, baby, drill' with his own drilling plan Off an historic win on health care reform, President Barack Obama has decided to use the momentum to push forward his next Big Agenda item: energy and climate change.

SHARE        Saturday, April 3, 2010
GOP denies jobless benefits to thousands When Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma left for his "Spring Break" on March 29, he also left some 200,000 jobless Americans without badly needed money to provide for their families.

(22 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Militia arrests point to return of armed patriot groups FBI raids on suspected militia members over the weekend jolted a public already concerned about far-right violence that surfaced during the health care reform fight.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 22, 2010
Mass. confusion Whether or not Martha Coakley wins the Senate seat today in Massachusetts, the battle for the interpretation of what it all means is already underway.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 1, 2009
Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' is gift to working America PITTSBURGH -- On the year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, filmmaker and slacker hero Michael Moore gave a gift to working America: an explanation of what happened. In short, capitalism happened.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Pakistan at a crossroads? Pakistan stands at a crossroads, where past meets present and national identity meets regional influences. However, it does not seem to be at a crossroads, as some have described, between a nuclear-armed democratic state vs. a nuclear-armed failed state.

SHARE        Friday, February 1, 2008
Will the progressive movement respond? Barack Obama's run for the White House has captured the imagination of a wide swath of Americans. The question is, will progressives respond?

SHARE        Friday, January 25, 2008
To Fix Economy, Put Working Class First What kind of stimulus package is needed that would help working families? One that creates good jobs and ensures workers and their neighbors can pay their house or car note, buy groceries, fill up their gas tanks or make college tuition payments?

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 20, 2008
A quick look at the Nevada caucus results Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucuses today by about a 5 percent margin over Barack Obama. (Almost 51 percent went for Clinton and just over 45 percent for Obama with 90 percent of the precincts reporting). John Edwards came in a distant third with less than 4 percent of the vote.

SHARE        Friday, December 28, 2007
Goodbye 2007...hello 2008 Like a roller coaster ride, 2007 has had high climbs, stomach-churning drops, painful hairpin turns and finally - at the end of it all - satisfaction and relief as we say, "Let's do it again."