An Alabama newspaper exposed a scandal May 16 that deserves national prominence. The headline was "Federal judge's lengthy affair with court worker is exposed." This is a scandal not simply for the judge, Mark Everett Fuller. It is a lifetime shame for those in the Justice Department, federal court system and the United States Senate who have protected him for an entire decade.

There is no issue more important than the sustainability of life on Earth, is there? Marriage equality, the 99% movement, never-ending terror wars, corporatocracy, dangerous religious fundamentalism -- all is meaningless if we continue on this path of complete environmental destruction.

For Gemini's movie theme of the union of opposites, we'll let the story of LadyHawke enchant our minds and open our hearts to the possibility of breaking this ancient curse between the sexes and reclaiming the most powerful gift of life -- LOVE.

a plan is in place to deal with Greece's exit from the eurozone. German policymakers have made every effort to protect themselves and to make sure that Greece does not become the next Lehman Brothers. Counterparties and bondholders have been compensated.

The dog that didn't bark this week, let alone bite, was the President's response to JP Morgan Chase's bombshell admission of losing more than $2 billion in risky derivative trades that should never have been made. Twenty years ago, the 10 largest banks on the Street held 10 percent of America's total bank assets. Now they hold over 70 percent.

America's neocons continue to beat the drums for war with Iran, brushing aside warnings even from Israeli intelligence veterans. Another part of the propaganda is to merge a future war against Iran with the heroic memories of the Six-Day War nearly 45 years ago.

A lively and provocative panel discussion on May 16 at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC on I-voting in the present and future (the preferred scenario).

Romney's claim that Bain played an essential role the Steel Dynamics is flat out false.

You'd think at this point James O'Keefe would have been burned enough to either do his homework better, or leave out the stuff that it's so easy to catch him lying about. Of course, if he were actually committed to telling the truth, I guess there wouldn't be anything to put in any of his videos. Because, outside of his stunts, voter fraud doesn't really happen.

John Perkins worked as an "economic planner' for an international consulting firm & describes the economic hegemony of banksters, the IMF, World Bank & the exploitative victimization of 3rd World nations. His job was to negotiate huge loans to these nations - loans of money that banksters created out of thin air and which they knew could never be repaid. In the process that followed, millions were further impoverished.

The court here repeatedly told the DOJ that it could preclude standing for the plaintiffs if they were willing to state clearly that none of the journalistic and free speech conduct that the plaintiffs engage in could subject them to indefinite detention. But the Government refused to make any such representation.

This article reviews the astrological sign Gemini and offers tips on how to harmonize yourself with its airy, curious energies. It also reviews the major astrological happenings during late May and most of June--critical information as we gear up for the Solstice and many major energies bringing changes on all planes.

Two artists from extremely different musical genres--alternative country and heavy metal rap--Soles of Passion and Prozak, respectively, provide examples of a focus on economic inequality coming into the popular discussion; this may be a result of or parallel to what social critics such as Noam Chomsky cite as the influence of the Occupy movement, a change in the national discussion from budget deficits to income inequality.

I am grateful that the Humane Society Legislative Fund sent us the results of the Senate's 2012 midterm votes re animal issues. I wish that I could say that they voted wisely and compassionately. However, you be the judge.

President Obama has announced that he supports gay marriage. The President has shared with us his personal view on the subject, which he presumably "evolved" to. However, as our highest elected official he takes no postion on the law. So, how is the President, as the President, not just as some observer whose views have "evolved," wrong on the issue? Let us count the ways.

Asserting peace one sinks into it to discover more

Corporatism is a very powerful, aggressive entity that has a very ambitious objective in mind; to take control of this nation's political system, then the government and, finally, our democracy. In accelerating this process it is following a plan which calls for the dumbing down of America. Their strategy is simply this: the American people, under current conditions, are an obstacle that must be neutralized.

Most people who suffer with chronic loneliness are entangled in unresolved emotional attachments. Unwittingly, they're chosing to recycle unresolved emotions from their past. Usually these are associated with feeling unloved, rejected, betrayed, and abandoned.

Does no one else find the fact of John Edwards being on trial curious? Does no one else wonder about the criminal basis for the prosecution? Not all politicians are created equal. And not all are treated equally. Therein lies an issue deserving a much, much closer look: whether vulnerable Democrats, chiefly of the liberal persuasion, are targeted for destruction. Or at least helped along to their doom by a double standard.

Gordon Gekko, the infamously cutthroat capitalist and lead character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, captured the heady years of the 1980s with a single, indelible line: Greed is good. Today, it is Edward Conard, a friend and former colleague of Mitt Romney's at the private equity firm Bain Capital, who has offered a new mantra for the 1%, a cri de coeur for the Gekkos of the twenty-first century: Inequality is good.