Millions of dollars, international effort, and anguish surround the search for Malaysia’s Flight 370. When interest fades, Flight 370 may end up like ValuJet Flight 592 – forgotten.

This week, the Associated Press exposed a secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create “a Twitter-like Cuban communications network”…
With no public acknowledgement of the irony the U.S., the ‘land of the free,’ has both the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest overall prison population.

We troublemakers keep hoping for the spark that will set a wildfire of workers in motion. The worse our situation gets—economically, politically, ecologically—the more we yearn for a vast movement to erupt and transform the landscape.

President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is warning that the combined crises of planetary climate change and rising global inequality in a highly interconnected world will lead to the rise of widespread upheaval…

In a boon to the role of big money in politics, the Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowly struck down overall limits on the amount of money individuals can contribute to candidates, parties and political action committees during the federal two-year election cycle.

Huge strides were made in the struggle for marijuana legalization on Tuesday: The New Jersey State Municipal Prosecutors Association said they support legalizing the possession of pot.


Though not conducted with the methodological rigor of the Pew poll that came out yesterday showing 54% of Americans support the legalization of marijuana and two-thirds believe drug policy…

(TriceEdneyWire.com) — Tallahassee, Fla., Pastor Dr. R. B. Holmes, a leading activist working against hazing and “stand-your-ground” laws, has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.

“Communities Rising” to end the drug war rally in front of San Francisco City Hall on June 17, 2011 (Photo: Bill Hackwell)U.S. attitudes towards the War on Drugs appear to be shifting away from prosecutions and incarcerations…

The White House is claiming that a secret programme to build a carefully-disguised “Cuban Twitter”, in order to foment political opposition to the Castro regime, was “not covert” but rather a “discreet” form of humanitarian assistance.