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November 2011

Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition

All Ron Paul CNN Foreign Policy Debate Highlights

A moving display by UC Davis students in protest (2 videos)

The first video is of students being pepper sprayed and arrested by police while peacefully protesting. The second video is the student response to the chancellor as she walks to her vehicle and leaves. The silence is stunning and telling. If you have not seen these videos, you must watch them.

How a protest can hurt those they aim to help

Protests are ramping up around the country and police are cracking down hard, as we’ve seen pictures and videos of police brutality and law-abiding protesters being arrested or sent to the hospital. We’ve even seen people who were doing absolutely nothing but sitting on a curb being pepper sprayed by the police. Journalists have been [...]

If you lived in Iran, wouldn’t you want the nuclear bomb?

Imagine, for a moment, that you are an Iranian mullah. Sitting crosslegged on your Persian rug in Tehran, sipping a cup of chai, you glance up at the map of the Middle East on the wall. It is a disturbing image: your country, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is surrounded on all sides by virulent [...]

UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute

On Friday, a group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest victims of alleged police brutality to be captured on video. The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing [...]

Jailing all the wrong people

Honesty and Trust

A picture is worth a thousand words

Government would never take marching orders from bankers and the well-to-do, right?

Fascism in America

A little too cozy with government

Inflation is a Tax

Simple Supply and Demand: What you should know about this easy concept and how it can make for a more prosperous society

By: Stephen Carter Supply and demand is a simple economic function that works on very basic principles that everyone should learn and know.

Hempcrete – Hemp Building Materials – Hemp For Houses

Houses built from hemp have been found to use less energy, create less waste and take less fuel to heat than conventionally constructed homes. Read More

America’s itch to brawl has a new target – but bombs can’t conquer Iran

A post-imperial virus has infected foreign policy. We’ve been here before, we know the human cost, and now we must stop. Read More

Mankind as a herd of cattle

How Inflation Helps The 1%