Cindy Sheehan to speak at 7pm, Wednesday 27th June, at University Temple Methodist Church
Real Change News and Rev. Richard Lang report: Jesuit priest, poet and activist Daniel Berrigan once said, “If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.†With a multitude of arrests and prison confinements for his radical stand against war, Berrigan was a role model for words. Cindy Sheehan, who once worked as…
Montana governor and lieutenant governor call for overriding Citizens United
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections. As a result, our democracy is being sold to the highest bidder. The evidence of corruption is mounting every day, but the Supreme Court just said, in effect, “tough luck, go home, corporations rule.” They refused even…
Every Republican Who Signed the Norquist Tax Pledge Violated Their Oath of Office
Every Republican Who Signed the Norquist Tax Pledge Violated Their Oath of Office … It is treasonous then, to also pledge an oath to a domestic enemy of the United States government whose stated purpose is not to “abolish government, but to drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,†because “our…
NSA Documents Reveal Bush Administration Ignored Al Qaeda Threat
“Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an…
The ugly origin of the war on drugs
After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I’m saying?…
How Obama Frames Issues to Help Romney
Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One Where Romney talks morality (conservative style), Obama mainly talks policy. Where Romney reframes Obama, Obama does not reframe Romney. In fact, he reinforces Romney’s frames in the first part of his speech by repeating Romney’s language word for word – without spelling out his own values explicitly….
Catholic on Catholic civil war brewing
“A house doesn’t have to fall on my head to tell me a battle royal is brewing within the Catholic Church over the conservative hierarchy’s heavy-handed efforts to clamp down on dissenting Catholic voices. Not when a prominent American nun comes “this close†to calling the present Church leadership a bunch of brown-frocked fascists. Or…