The Shanghai World Expo, which officially opens tomorrow, May 1st, is yet another multi-billion dollar propaganda spectacle put on by the Chinese government.

Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the Shanghai … [Keep reading >>]

Check out SkyTruth Blog for updates on the oil spill.

See their entire site for other work they do:  SkyTruth uses remote sensing and … [Keep reading >>]

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Original Salon article by Alexander Zaitchick. … [Keep reading >>]

This weekend, PBS will air the last new regular episode from journalist extrordinaire, Bill Moyers, in his show Bill Moyers Journal.  It’s hard to think of this … [Keep reading >>]

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Goldman Sachs Case Sent To Justice Department Prosecutors By SEC … [Keep reading >>]

Update: Now the Dems too, have a spanner in the works of the Florida U.S. Senate race, though theirs will come at Primary time on August 31, instead of during … [Keep reading >>]

Wow! This is amazing. Civil Disobedience in Egypt!

“Day after day, hundreds of workers from all over Egypt have staged demonstrations and sit-ins outside Parliament, turning sidewalks in the heart … [Keep reading >>]

“The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was … [Keep reading >>]

Don’t miss this wild tongued rant from Timothy Egan:
Can it get any worse? Well, yes. Somewhere deep in the Sonoran Desert is the lost soul of John McCain. … [Keep reading >>]

Dorothy Height, one of the Grand Old Elders of the Civil Rights Movement died last week at the age of 98.  She was eulogized by President Obama today at the … [Keep reading >>]

From Human Rights Watch:

Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said … [Keep reading >>]