Waiter, there's a newfangled technology in my soup
The unregulated nanotech industry is spreading through the U.S. food system.
Movies tell the truth at Michael Moore's film festival
The film fest in Traverse City, Mich., created an enormously popular event that featured the best in progressive cinema, both challenging and entertaining.
Honor the troops, leave Afghanistan
Though military generals claim, as they always do, that progress is being made, it's hard to see that on the ground.
FAA shutdown and labor's unhappy anniversary
It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
CIA use of immunization program has troubling history
In search of Bin Laden the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered immunization shots against Hepatitis B to the poor people of Abbottabad, in Pakistan, as a CIA front program.
S&P "bond vigilantes" take aim - at us
Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
For the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, end nuclear arms
Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since Hiroshima and Nagasaki - but such good fortune may not last forever.
Senator Sanders got it right
The passage of the debt ceiling bill marks a dangerous moment for the workers movement in this country.
A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
Red School Bus tour makes final stop for summer in Texas
Many Marxists, communists, radical labor activists and political activists were proud to call the great state of Texas their home.
