As part of their ethics and rules package which passed Congress today, lawmakers installed PAYGO. It’s a fiscal policy in which they’ll spend only the money they have in the bank. PAYGO...

More evidence has surfaced that strong systems are not in place to protect votes cast on electronic voting machines. The New York Times reported Thursday that the federal Election Assistance Commis...

Tensions continue in Somalia where government forces and Ethiopian troops have been fighting the Union of Islamic Courts, which the Bush Administration says is linked to Al-Qaeda. The U.S. Navy is ...

Despite growing opposition from the public, the Pentagon continues to push their plans to detonate the 700-ton Divine Strake bomb test in Nevada. The blast is expected to be 50 times larger than th...

Lt. Ehren Watada faced a military judge during the pre-trial hearing phase of his court marshal Thursday at Fort Lewis near Seattle. Lt. Watada is charged with refusing to deploy with his unit to I...

There are alarming reports of a build up of Indonesian military and police forces in the Punjak Jaya province of West Papua. This is in response to the deaths of two Indonesian military personnel i...

Tillie Olsen, feminist activist and writer died this week at age 94. This segment of an interview with Olsen in 1981 courtesy of The Pacifica Radio...