Via News Unfiltered, My Good Deed—a social action campaign started by 9-11 survivors and their family and friends—is asking both candidates to temporarily suspend their campaigns on 9-11 and obser
Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress have released their authoritative Terrorism Index, a survey of 100 bipartisan foreign policy experts to determine the direction of U.S.
Writing from Nevada, site of the National Clean Energy Summit, Alex Bandza reports on Bill Clinton's remarks about charting a clean energy future:According to Clinton, energy is at the heart of ec
There must be an alternative to using oneupmanships of force to settle disputes. I, for one, would support renouncing veto power in the United Nations Security Council provided everybody else in it does the same. Otherwise, who can blame a nation or group for wanting nuclear weapons. After all. Who wants to be the next Iraq. With Veto power still in place, powerful nations, not necessarily the USA, can make a mockery of the only known alternative to military pissing matches. The down payment on
Let the Federal government be the employer of last resort. This, along with a REAL living wage, will effectively end poverty in America. Let the 'free' 'market economy' have to compete with the 'Inherently inefficient' government which it feels so superior to for the same workers. To help pay for this, have a 90% marginal tax on all personal income over one million dollars per year. Let these workers work on an alternative energy infrastructure which this country is going to sorely need.
1.) Reinstate the 'fairness doctrine'. We can not afford a Balkanized media which will inevitably lead to a Balkanized public. And after witnessing Roanda and Bosnia, what more evidence do we need that this is not the way to go. Let the Sumner Redstone types cry in their campaign. The first amendment was never intended to be a license to lie. Nor was intended to be used solely for the profit of the super rich who own all the media.
