It should come as no surprise, at a time when the free world wide web allows people and social movements to access information ignored by the corporate media and to organize mass movements such as the recent overthrow of the Egyptian leadership and the now international Occupy Wall Street, that the corporate media is striking [...]

  At some point this year, student loan debt will exceed $1 trillion, surpassing credit card debt. Students accepted a home mortgage worth of debt before they ever even had a regular income. This is based on phony promises, and that the debt is inescapable, regardless of life circumstances or ability to pay. Due to [...]

A controversial provision in the National Defense Authorization Bill that would “affirm” the President’s supposed power to wage perpetual war anywhere on Earth against undefined enemies — including Americans in the United States — is attracting fierce criticism from across the political spectrum.   The language was inserted into the bill by Rep. Howard McKeon [...]

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation. On Monday, March 21, 2011, this law was signed in order to restrict women’s reproductive rights and defer women from having abortions. Naturally, Pro-choice [...]

Former Columbia Governor Alvaro Uribe instructed his allies in Congress, who formed a majority, to block passage of a bill that would have provided for, among other things, reparations and restoration of stolen property to victims of the paramilitaries. The bill, he argued, would entail costs too heavy for the state coffers to handle. Testimony [...]

Maryland conservationists call upon the FDA to ban the use of arsenic in Maryland poultry production.  Earlier this year, a bill to ban arsenic from chicken feed was introduced to the Maryland House of Delegates. Arsenic is often added to chicken feed in the form of compound roxarsone to control intestinal disease, promote growth, and [...]

With over 1,000 union members and supporters on the lawn, and hundreds packing the Capitol dome chanting “kill the bill,” the Republican controlled state Senate in Michigan passed the controversial “Emergency Financial Managers” Bill 153.  The bill is expected to be signed into law by Republican Governor Rick Snyder after a conference committee reconciles the [...]

South Dakota is taking extreme action against any person who performs an abortion within the states borders. The South Dakota House is taking up a bill to redefine “justifiable homicide” that may “make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions,” Mother Jones reports. A bill, which is backed by the GOP in theory, could [...]

On December 1, 2010 Margo MacDonald’s end of life assistance bill was rejected by the Scottish Parliament. Despite the fact that key measures were included for strict monitoring and interpretation, Parliament feared the bill would cause an increase in suicidal tourism. The bill would have allowed individuals over 16 years of age with a progressive [...]

The House has passed and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to delay for a year an impending sharp cut in Medicare pay to doctors. Doctors that threatened to disrupt care for the nation’s seniors will be cut funding. The doctor cuts are the result of a 1990s budget-balancing law that tried, but failed, [...]