Day May 16, 2005

If I get ONE MORE automated phone call telling me who to vote for tomorrow, I’m going to stay home and not vote! There’s been six of them in the past few hours here at my home office. Do the bozos…

L.A. hip hop artist Wil b., who performs often at antiwar demonstrations and progressive events, has been busy. Currently he’s mobilizing votes for Antonio Villraigosa with a traveling Political Power of Hiphop Tour of Los  Angeles which, after the election,…

US strategy is producing major blowback. One fact is clear: “velvet revolutions” stage-managed by the United States in Georgia and Ukraine, and then carried over to Kyrgyzstan, are threatening to explode in volatile Central Asia. At the time of the…

The Schwarzenegger administration is poised to profoundly transform how California treats its most troubled young lawbreakers, replacing a prison culture of punishment and control with one anchored in group therapy, self-discipline and preparation for life outside. Schwarzenegger is indeed reforming…

Europe’s rules forcing U.S. firms to clean up. Unwilling to surrender sales, companies struggle to meet the EU’s tough stand on toxics.