It's Time for Change, Not Celebration
by Bill Shein
on March 10, 2011
I’d like to propose that we, as Americans, reserve boisterous chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” for events other than war, killing, and death.
Instead, let’s repeat our nation’s initials and wave American flags when we cut our ballooning child-poverty rate in half, and then by three-quarters, and then to zero.
Let’s rally outside the White House on that day when no American goes without quality health care or is forced into bankruptcy because of illness. Or to celebrate bold action to address the environmental crises that are rapidly destroying what’s necessary for human life.
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"21st Century Full Employment & Training Act” (H.R. 870)
by administrator
on March 10, 2011
The full text of HR 870, Congressman Conyers' 21st Century Full Employment & Training Act.
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Our Endless War Shuffle
by Tom Engelhardt
on March 10, 2011
Someday, when historians look back, they will undoubtedly be struck by the utter inanity, not to say collective insanity, of the United States fighting what our president has called a “ war of necessity,” now in its tenth year, in Afghanistan, as well as a “covert” war in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. It will undoubtedly look like a classic case of a declining empire overextending itself, squandering its treasury, and then, in its moment of crisis, extending itself yet further.
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Join a call with economist Dean Baker and policy expert Julie Kerksick
by Aimee Allison
on March 02, 2011
 Dean Baker, among the most brilliant economists of our times, will be the featured guest on the Economic and Social Justice Issue Organizing Team (IOT) call at 9pm EST Wednesday March 2. Dean will discuss Rep. John Conyers' 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act, and the issue of the extended and unacceptable unemployment rate in the United States. He's joined by Julie Kerksick, Administrator of the Division of Family and Economic Security since July 2008.
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An Appeal from Daniel Ellsberg for RootsAction on Afghanistan
by Aimee Allison
on January 14, 2011
Join Daniel Ellsberg in signing the new petition “We Oppose the War in Afghanistan.”
It is a dangerously misleading myth that U.S. wars in the Middle East serve to protect Americans at home. That false claim is used to justify U.S. troop casualties, vast military spending, countless foreign deaths and illegal acts such as torture, kidnapping, indefinite detention and warrantless domestic surveillance.
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Deficit Hawks: Substituting Money for Competence
by Sarah Buecher
on November 29, 2010
The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR) and everyone else who is respectable in Washington agrees: we must do something about the deficit now.
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Commodifying Nature in an Age of Climate Change
by Sarah Buecher
on November 29, 2010
For about two weeks, starting today, the world will be locked into another session of negotiations on how to tackle climate change. The conference, to be held in Cancun, Mexico, has drawn less excitement than its predecessor held in Copenhagen, Denmark, a year ago.
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The 'new normal' of unemployment
by Aimee Allison
on November 29, 2010
First they failed to recognize the impending meltdown, and now economists seem ready to accept that U.S. unemployment will be higher the historic average. As if there was no other option.
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KPFK and Pacifica Radio Series: Building a powerful left in the United States
by Aimee Allison
on November 29, 2010
How can a powerful left-wing political movement take shape in the United States? RootsAction Senior Fellow Norman Soloman joins a panel of other experts to discuss the way forward.
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From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State
by Aimee Allison
on November 29, 2010
Fifty years after Eisenhower's speech on the "military-industrial complex," that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force. It has become a "Permanent War State," with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite future.
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