Guardsmen “from California describe a prison-like, demoralized camp in New Mexico that’s short on gear and setting them up for high casualties.” These are US troops being treated this way – by the US military!

The U.S. government knew of a plot to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the weeks before a 2002 military coup that briefly unseated him, newly released CIA documents show, despite White House claims to the contrary. “This is substantive…

Labor Is The Source of All Wealth. . . . so went the motto of the labor movement during the first real boom of labor organizing, around the turn of the last century. It’s an intuitive idea — without work,…

The growth area in unsolicited e-mail is now messages that contain religious themes. And the bad news is that unlike commercial spam, it’s not illegal.

If you close a trauma center, people will die, there’s really no question about that. And to close a trauma center in a part of L.A. that desperately needs it, no matter how troubled the hospitial. seems criminal to me.…

That’s what the California Insurance Commissioner apparently thinks, signing onto a deal for Wellpoint that will cost policyholders 4 billion. His price to protect the citizens of California was a paltry 265 million. WellPoint’s deal with Anthem had been delayed…