Please join Interfaith Worker Justice & ARISE Chicago this Thursday, July 23 at 7:00 PM at the STOP SMILING Storefront - 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave for the launch of Kari Lydersen’s important new book Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis

In the 1960s John Kenneth Galbraith decried the coexistence of private affluence and public squalor and denounced trickle-down economics, feeding the horse so the sparrow can live. System- and structural criticism is vital today as the myth of the self-healing market is over.

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of US $2-trillion

In recent years, many Islamic divorce cases were litigated in the United States family courts. The issue of mahr in the Islamic marriage contracts became subject of debate among lawyers and scholars. This article sheds lights on the Islamic mahr.

A newly formed faction of the Seeds of Peace Collective, named Eastern Seeds of Peace, is committed to organizing medical infrastructure in support of the expected large-scale actions against the International Pittsburgh Coal Conference and G20 Summit in Pittsburgh in late September. This is a call to action for street medics, clinicians, herbalists, and all those interested in contributing to the medical support that is crucial to the success of the planned marches and demonstrations.

The state is welcome again in this plight. The brazenness with which those who caused the crisis now demand state subsidies to bailout the financial system is just as breathtaking as the state readiness to fulfill this demand.

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)is planning terror exercises over/in Chicago starting at 1:00 am July 21, 2009 with nation-wide "exercises" involving multiple nations' militaries July 27-31, just as they did with live terror 9-11 and 7-7 London Bombings and Madrid bombings and similar exercises prior/during Mumbai bombings all blamed on others amid reports of inside jobs in preparation for marital law.

Many people believed that after Bush had left the White House, rampant arrogance combined with stunning hypocrisy had also gone. Events have proven otherwise. A recent speech delivered in Africa — and one later directed specifically at African Americans — carried with them all the baggage of the Bush years, to the extent that one could safely claim that absolutely nothing had changed. And although Obama is able to give a more compassionate and intelligent speech than was possible with Bush, the essence of their policies is identical. Both Africans and African Americans can expect no help from the U.S. government in addressing their serious and specific grievances, themselves the result of past and current U.S. government policy. Instead, both were given the same solution: if you want help, help yourselves, “no excuses.”

In early October, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) will carry out direct action at the White House to end the war in Afghanistan and to close Bagram prison and end torture.