Union membership notched up in 2011

Chief European ACTA bureaucrat quits in disgust

Deconstructing Gingrich's demagoguery

Gingrich bad mouthed Reagan in 1988 1985 

Post constitutional America FBI plans to spy on Facebook, Twitter Google to spy on user's private data including calendars and emails Homeland police want to spy on up to four square miles for long periods To hell with the 5th Amendment: Federal judge orders decryption of defendant's hard drive Obama: It's okay to torture but you get up to 30 years in prison for revealing it

San Francisco suspends medial marijuana licensing

Gingrich wanted to put pot importers to death

Survey finds incoming college students more liberal

Romney invested in fund that held Florida mortgages later foreclosed

Romney had Swiss, as well as Cayman Islands, bank account

Is Obama's mortgage investigation a fraud?

Bailout booster Obama now berates bailouts

Jerry Brown stands up against the test tyrants

Obama seizes control of New York schools with greenmail worth just one third of one percent of state's school budget

Florida parents stand up against another Jeb Bush education rip off

Prosecution of whistleblowers tipping off media has soared under Obama

Nancy Pelosi suddenly becomes interesting

Gingrich super PAC gets ten million dollars for Las Vegas casino baron

It's not just Democrats who are bothered by Gingrich's character

Unemployment down mainly because people have left workforce

Big Ben tilting; Parliament sliding

Why Republicans are the real socialists

Restrictive abortion laws do not cut abortion rates

Send poor Rick Santorum a uterus of his own

Arts & culture

The case against night clubs

Why do foundations see so many problems and so few opportunities?

A sculpture exhibit you can acually touch

Civil Liberties

Rahm Emanuel's war on democracy

Japanese government concealing facts about Fukushima

Chicago council passes Emanuel's protest suppression bill

Can Congress act on Citizens United without a constitutional amendment?

Former Homeland boss wants more domestic spying and interference

Tucson schools ban Chicano, Native American books, grab them from children's hands

Democrats are driving force behind war on Internet

How one day of online protest changed things

• CIVIL LIBERTIES
• HOMELAND INSECURITIES

Cyber

War on the Internet

Idea Mill: A musicians' cooperative to replace RIAA

Is this why Obama took down MegaUpload? To save the recording industry from a musician-friendly plan?

30 years before SOPA, MPAA feared the VCR

Did Obama just kill cloud storage for computers?

What effect does improper downloading really have?

The war on the Internet continues big time: It's called ACTA

How to boycott the movie and recording industry

What the recording industry won't tell you about music

Surprise: Supreme Court thinks 4th Amendment still exists

How the U.S. government used diplomats to pervert copyright law on behalf of MPAA

Chris Dodd threatens to stop bribing politicians for the movie industry

Obama thinks downloaders are worse than mortgage fraud

Who's worse: Illegal downloaders on politicians on the take?

MORE SOPA NEWS

Drugs

Richard Branson calls for end of war on drugs

Drug war: really a war against blacks

Canada's Liberal Party endorses pot legalization

Ecology & nature

Fukishima in Vermont? Judge says federal power is more important

Federal judge says states can't protect themselves against nuclear plants

Seaweed as biofuel?

The great pipeline scam

Economy & money

The bonuses you subsidized for the six largest banks were last year the second largest in history

30 corporations that paid more for lobbying than they did in taxes

"Job creators" need government bribes

Seven new hedge funders charged

Earnings of men collapse over past 40 years

Britain, US big economic losers over past five years; Russia, Brazil, India, China big winners

Education

Hawaii teachers flunk Race to the Top

Teacher kicked out for distributing leaflet at Duncan-Rhee appearance

Foreign affairs

Recession creator Larry Summers being considered as head of World Bank

Gay

72 mayors announce coalition to support marriage equality

History

Martin Luther King writing on education while a college student

Media

Why the Pulitzer prizes are worthless

Local hero: Irish journalist shows how media could be asking questions of officials

How the media fouls up budget reporting

Mid East

Where US troops are stationed

Great moments in American-Israel relations

Obama

Obama's new OMB director was Bain alum

Behind Homeland Security's monitoring of websites: a key Obama adviser

Otohbotoh Obama

Obama rediscovers religion just in time for election

Politics

Who Saul Alinsky was and why Newt Gingrich should be afraid of him

The best of Newt Gingrich

Some facts about food stamps the Republicans won't tell you

Santorum's Iowa campaign head didn't think a woman should be president

Profiles of four third party presidential candidates

Just the facts: Democrats & Republicans like same size government

Best moments with Rick Perry

MORE POLITICS

Romney

Romney has millions of dollars in Cayman Islands tax haven

Romney's Bain Capital got big taxpayer bailout

Top Romney contributors

• JOHN MCCAIN'S RESEARCH FILE ON ROMNEY
• MORE ROMNEY GOODIES

ACTION NOTES BACK TO TOP The ancestors of the Occupy movement Before Occupy DC there was Resurrection City The establishment that no longer is Some ways to occupy our future...and our economy FINDING BANKS & CREDIT UNIONS List of credit unions Move your money Organizing mass transfer to credit unions Occupy Colleges Facebook page OCCUPY INFO List of demands OccupyWallStreet Occupy Network Interoccupy Occupations across U.S Another occupation locator OWS news site Location of protests around the world Greg Mitchell's live blog PROTESTER INFO How to start a 99% club How to send food and supplies to protesters Downloadable posters Know your rights Defend yourself against tear gas Rights of photograpers Cellphone guide for protesters LEGISLATION Ending corporate personhood Save America's postal service Instant runoff voting BOYCOTTS Hotels to boycott on behalf of hotel workers BP On boycotts READING Ten ways the occupy movement changes everything An American Agenda The establishment that no longer is Living in a dysfunctional family called America Change the culture; the politics will follow America has to learn how to manage its decline Confronting post-political disorder OTHER THINGS TO DO How to keep Wall Street really occupied without living in a tent The Green Party alternative Why public banks work Lousy laws used against protesters

SEARCH SITE Because we have different URLs for our Review and Undernews pages you may have to search twice. SEARCH UNDERNEWS   SEARCH REST OF PROGRESSIVE REVIEW

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM BACK TO TOP Sam Smith has been a musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band. Here are a few tracks: SAM SMITH'S DECOLAND BAND AVALON INDIANA JELLY ROLL SHINE Bob Walter, trumpet; Jimmy Hamilton & Coleman Hankins, clarinet; Paul Hettich, bass; Sam Smith, piano. Bob Resnik, drums PHOENIX JAZZ BAND led by Bob Walter APEX BLUES George James sax OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal HILL CITY JAZZ BAND led by Bob Walter BILL BAILEY BYE & BYE Sam piano & vocal JAZZ ME BLUES OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal SIT RIGHT DOWN & WRITE MYSELF A LETTER Sam piano & vocal TISHMINGO BLUES WHEN YOU'RE SMILING Sam piano, Bob Walter vocal WASHINGTON POST MARCH

DONATIONS & SAM SMITH'S BOOKS DONATIONS WHY BOTHER? $12 AN UTNE READER STAFF PICK A POWELL'S BOOKSTORE STAFF PICK WORKING ASSETS RECOMMENDED READING Why Bother, in a wonderfully engaging and erudite manner, addresses the great question confronting democracy, community and justice -- and that is civic motivation. Prepare to be motivated. Sam Smith is an antidote to mindless speed reading. He makes you pause between paragraphs in order to mull over the captivating morsels he is placing in your imagination. - RALPH NADER Sam Smith puts it to us straight in these essays about finding meaning and hope - JAY WALJASPER, UTNE READER An American original. . . He's got a big old cussed independent streak that keeps you guessing and hence keeps you reading. - CRISPIN SARTWELL GREAT AMERICAN REPAIR MANUAL $15 Published by W.W. Norton, New York & London. "Lucid . . . Keep going, Sam" -- Mario Cuomo "Desperately needed" -- Roger Morris, author of Partners in Power "Smith's book is a toolbox for hacking a corrupt system. It is also funny as hell . . . There are butts that need kicking in this country. . . Sam Smith is handing out the boots." -- Alex Steffen, The Stranger, Seattle weekly "Must read. . . combines laughter and trenchant critique to a degree seldom seen" -- John Rensenbrink, Green Horizons "The Tom Paine of the Nineties" -- Chuck Stone "Truly independent journalist" -- Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Times "Phenomenally interesting. . . recommend it highly" -- Michelle Laxalt, co-host of Newsmakers "You'll be enlightened, challenged, even entertained" -- Chuck Harder on the Talk America Network. Featured in Utne Reader and on Weekend All Things Considered.

Word

[Obama] says one thing and does another. Where has he been for over three years? He's had the Justice Department. There are existing laws that could prosecute and convict Wall Street crooks. He hasn't sent more than one or two to jail. - Ralph Nader

A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals

Mitch Daniels?

Isn’t he the former Bush budget director who said the Iraq War would cost $50 billion when it ended up costing $3 trillion? The bureaucrat who promoted the Bush tax cuts when we were fighting two wars? The one whose budget projections were so fraudulent that he predicted federal surpluses in 2004 and 2005?- Joe Conason

Futhermore. . .

Number of Americans who in 1985 held reservations with Pan Am for a trip to the moon: 90,002 - #HarpersIndex

Man awarded $22 million due to inhumane jail treatment and being held without trial for two years

16 year old gets prayer removed from school wall

Another Yale cover up

Tacovism

When asked what he was going to do about the fact that there were no latinos on the East Haven police force, the town's mayor, Joseph Maturo Jr., replied, ""I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet." The latino community responded by delivering 500 tacos to his door.

MORNING LINE Based on our moving average of polls 3 POLL AVG GINGRICH 33 ROMNEY 28 SANTORUM  13 PAUL 12 Obama point lead GREEN = Democratic lead RED = GOP lead     LIGHT COLORS-Within margin of error AVG OBAMA-ROMNEY 4 OBAMA-GINGRICH 11 OBAMA-SANTORUM  10 Obama blue, GOP red Electoral vote count: Obama, 186, GOP: 91 Senate: Democrats have four seats in doubt. Three GOP seats in doubt. Only three seats need change for GOP to win Senate. Governors: Democrats stand to win one and lose one state with 4 other in doubt. Three GOP seats in doubt. DETAILS