US citizens: phone your congresscitter to support HCR 105 to remove all US troops from Iraq by the end of the year.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

The US government aims to be omniscient and omnipotent.

This makes its unquestioning supporters comparable to theocrats.

Joseph Stiglitz explains how the World Bank, IMF and WTO combined in the 90s to wreck countries' economies, impoverish most people, and transfer their wealth to the international elite.

Clearly this continues in recent times, as can be seen in austerity in Europe.

Ukraine is now on the menu.

RT has an obvious slant which comes from Putin, but Michael Hudson is a western economist who accepted this opportunity to communicate to the public.

Missouri plans to execute a man convicted of murder disregarding evidence that he was probably innocent.

In advanced countries, with the exception of the US, strong unions correlate with high productivity.

So don't believe the executives when they claim that unions destroy productivity.