What if Los Angeles had a Monorail? It almost happened back in 1963. http://www.monorails.org/tmspages/LA1963.html

by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed Occupy Wall Street protesters react and wave copies of the court order allowing them back into Zuccotti Park as police block them from re-entering, in New York, November 15, 2011. Hundreds of police officers arrested about 200 demonstrators early Tuesday in an operation to clear the nearly two-month-old camp. [...]

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said he could explain the problems with the economy in less than 2 minutes, 15 seconds—and he did it (with illustrations to boot). It’s great! Check it out.

By SCOTT SHANE of the New York Times Published: February 27, 2011 For nearly two decades, the leaders of Al Qaeda have denounced the Arab world’s dictators as heretics and puppets of the West and called for their downfall. Now, people in country after country have risen to topple their leaders — and Al Qaeda [...]

by Kathy Kristof for CBS MoneyWatch.com What does sitting in traffic cost you? About $808 on average, according to the latest Urban Mobility Report, conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute. But the cost is dramatically higher if you live in Chicago, where the cost per commuter hit a whopping $1,738. In fact, commuters in large [...]

Obama may have entered the White House with the intention of assembling a Lincolnesque “team of rivals,” but Summers subverted that notion by making himself chief packager and gatekeeper for any dissenting arguments about economic policy—all, he claimed, to spare the President from meeting with “long-winded people.” Lincoln’s “team of rivals” reported directly to Lincoln, [...]

From The Huffington Post By Stephen Gyllenhaal As I sit on the set of GrassRoots – our comedy about a small City Council race in Seattle back in 2001 – there are so many images that float through my mind. The extras getting ready, sure. The crew setting up the lights and our RED camera [...]

July 4th. A day off from work. It’s been a packed stretch of time for me and I feel like I haven’t been here on my site enough (a site I love). I’ve been almost nowhere enough, except on the set where I’ve really gotten to play and do what I believe in most. I’m [...]

From democracynow.org Just under a year ago Dr. Binayak Sen, India’s most famous political prisoner, was released on bail after 2 years of imprisonment. Dr. Sen is a world-renowned “physician of the poor,” winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann award for global health and human rights, and Vice President of India’s oldest civil liberties organization [...]