Posada Carriles, an ultra-right Cuban exile who has been on the CIA payroll, is wanted in Venezuela for bombing a Cuban airliner and killing 73 people. The Bushies want to grant him asylum, making a hypocritical mockery of their “war on terror.”…

Hey! Instead of funding more police, how about we put the money into mass transit and more efficient freeways, because road rage would then drop, resulting in less crime because people won’t be going berserk after spending 2 hours on the 405 to…

Immigration May Split GOP. “Immigration policy threatens to shatter the Republican governing coalition,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Because its implications for the nation’s economy, security and its social fabric pit Republican constituencies against one another, the issue could imperil…

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…