To talk about Afghanistan, NATO and the state of US economic and military power in the world today, the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and resistance to American empire, we’re joined by one of the world’s most astute and important thinkers, Noam Chomsky.

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Howard Zinn joins us to talk about war, torture and the teaching of history. Zinn says had Obama heeded the lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he wouldn’t be escalating US attacks abroad and increasing the size of the US military budget.

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The Obama administration has made it clear they are not interested in holding anyone accountable for torture, on the contrary, they will help shield people from accountability, going as far as to cover legal expenses for anyone who might be brought up on charges anywhere in the world...

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...for the CIA interrogators.

The Nuremberg Defense lives again...

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On April 2, 2009 the jury returned a verdict for Professor Ward Churchill in his case against the University of Colorado...

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President Obama hosted a White House summit Thursday on reforming healthcare. While President Obama said every idea must be considered, the idea of creating a single-payer national health insurance program appears to have already been rejected...

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Freeing Your Computer from Microsoft

I took the time recently to test drive the Kubuntu Linux 9.04 Alpha release. Over the last few months in particular, a lot of cumulative technological efforts have really come to fruition. Just to name a few, the KDE 4.2 desktop, improved webcam and wifi support, and the EXT4 filesystem.

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Howard Zinn is one of this country’s most celebrated historians. His classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America.

He recently spoke at Binghamton University a few days after the 2008 presidential election. His speech was called “War and Social Justice.”

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Chomsky says while it's true that the two parties are essentially like factions of one party - the party of business - the differences do matter to ordinary people. If you are living in a swing state, there is nothing wrong with picking the lesser of two evils.

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Democracy... we are taught it's this wonderful thing in school. In my mind, a simple definition of a genuine democracy, would be something like "the idea, or a system based on the idea, that the people of a given society, should have meaningful control over the decisions that are made in that society." Seems simple enough right?...

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In today's LA Times, Rep. Jane Harman sheds light on the staggering number of sexual assaults within the military, stating, "Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."

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Due to the new copyright legislation that are going to take effect from today we had to move all of the system outside of Europe...

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Oddly enough 'Juicy' by Biggie Smalls is not included in the list.

They banned all Rage Against the Machine songs...a blatant and disturbing example of corporate repression of political free speech. - personman

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US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects.

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Eating 1.8oz (50g) of processed meat a day - the equivalent of one sausage or three rashers of bacon - raises the likelihood of the cancer by a fifth, research shows.

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