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The Speed-Up “I wanted a union not so much for the money,” said line worker Peter Schmitz, “I wanted a union … to have a little say so about the speed of that line. Like I say you couldn’t do quality work, it just wasn’t possible that you could do quality work the way you […]

Amidst the pork in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was $6 billion in subsidies to oil and gas companies1. At the time Congress passed the act, the five biggest oil companies had just posted record profits of $52 billion for the first half of the year2. Republicans voted 87% for the act and Democrats […]

Last month the Supreme Court ruled that President Bush’s military tribunals at Guantanamo were illegal – a violation of the United States’ Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions1. The case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, was brought by Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift of the Navy Justice Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. Swift recalled joining […]

Guest article by Julius Hungeski Joseph Stalin said: Gratitude … is a sickness suffered by dogs1. To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed … there is nothing sweeter in the world. – Remark to colleague before signing almost 40,000 death warrants2. The […]

Among the complaints against King George III in the United States’ Declaration of Independence that today could be leveled at President George W. Bush is: “He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good1.” One way Bush refuses assent to a law is by neglecting to enforce it, […]