Bill for Iraq conflict will soon overtake Vietnam. $78bn squeeze on medical care for elderly and poor

Missing: Todd Stroger - Cook County RNs and Public Allies Lead Rally, Search Party for Missing Board Chairman--Wednesday at 5 pm - After Announcing Devastating Cuts to Public Health Budget, Stroger Has Not Faced the Public Since January 16th

The Occupation Project, organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), kicked off at noon, Eastern Time when four people were arrested holding a funeral service in the Chicago office of Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and four more people were arrested in the Chicago office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), reading names of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers.

Making an Example of Ehren Watada

The following contribution is an attempt to develop an alternative theological Christian case against the Christian Right. The basis of Right-wing Evangelical theology are the writings of anti-semite Saul of Tarsus. These writings (such as Romans) are used to justify hatred against Gays and Lesbians. By demolishing "Paul" you demolish the Religious Right. I've tried it. IT WORKS ! *** p.s. This writing assumes that Christ and his Apostles existed in a historical sense.

Labor Beat and Hammerhard Media are hosting a skills share workshop this Saturday at noon at the UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland

No one has done more to expand Iran's power in the region than George Bush. Was that what Bush intended? Bush's new security strategy does nothing to promote American interests..Congress is duty bound to avoid this tragedy.

US anti-war groups called nationwide protests as the first US army officer to publicly refuse orders to go to Iraq arguing that the war was illegal was set to go on trial.

It's Not About Democracy

Last night's Super Bowl was a Roman Vomitorium of odious spew. This wasn't the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was the dreary, the vile, and the insipid made only palatable by the thought of Mike Ditka in a dark bar drinking whiskey shots, chased with the salty discharge humans call tears.