While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction….. READ MORE
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Obama’s Bailout Bunch Brings us More of the Same
t’s hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change. Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation’s president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate through the worst financial crisis in modern history…… READ MORE
Read moreState of Georgia Set For Execution
On Sept. 6th2011 in the state of Georgia, A Chatham County Judge signed death warrants to proceed with the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Davis was accused of killing a white Savannah Police officer in 1989….. Read More
Read moreIs Nikola Tesla the Blame for Hurricane Sandy
What is trully shocking to me is that in the past 150 years in America three of the most powerful hurricanes happened in just 52 days in 2005: Katrina,Rita, and Wilma……. Read More
Read moreErnest Withers: The Informant
The long and infamous history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its attacks upon black Americans in their struggles for human and civil rights are by now well known….. Read More
Read moreAre Americans Broken People? Why we Stopped Fighting Back the Forces of Oppression
Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?….. Read More
Read morePainkiller Sales Soar Around US, Fuel Addiction
Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic….. Read More
Read moreAs Plastic Reigns, the Treasury Slows it’s Printing Presses
The number of dollar bills rolling off the great government presses here and in Fort Worth fell to a modern low in the last fiscal year. Production of $5 bills also dropped to the lowest level in 30 years…. Read More
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