The Supremes are stopping in the name of love the rights of people to protect their private information from being sold to marketers. There were two egregious decisions yesterday that afforded even more power onto corporations, specifically the pharmaceutical industry, but it's this particular decision I find so chilling (especially in the light of ( Read more... )

It was Eisenhower, a Republican, and the President that corruption-king Nixon served under as VP, who warned America not to go down the road we've taken. In his final address to the nation he warned of the "military industrial complex," a phrase now widely known, practically cliche, but a phrase he coined, and a novel idea and astute observation at ( Read more... )