President Barack Obama met top credit card executives and vowed reforms to purge their industry of abusive rate hikes and fees and to restore "strong" protections for consumers.

(From the diaries. An incredible and valuable resource. Susan) So much information about the Bush administration's torture policies and rationales has surfaced in recent days that, contrary to the secrecy meme of those days, we are now in danger of suffering from TMI - too much information. So I thought it would be helpful to put together a timeline of known facts, reports and claims to try to give some chronological perspective to it all. As with any such collection, the selections are s

Amerikans Support Escalation in Afghanistan (raimd.wordpress.com) Nearly two-thirds of Amerikans back President Barack Obama’s recent decision to strengthen occupation forces of Afghanistan, according to a new public opinion poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News. These most recent figures are part of Amerikans’ long standing support for the onset, and in this case escalation, of imperialist wars of aggression. Amerikans support imperialist aggression because they benef

Jay Leno , who’s soon to leave the "Tonight" show, became ill Thursday, and the taping of his show was canceled.His spokesman, Dick Guttman, said Leno left his office at NBC’s studios about midday. He checked himself into nearby Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center for observation.Guttman characterized Leno’s ailment, which he couldn’t identify, as "mild."Scheduled guests on Thursday’s show were Ryan Reynolds, Jules Sylvester and the swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Instead, NBC planned to ai

Nothing enrages the American injustice system more than an escaped slave. When Harriet Tubman was liberating Black people from institutionalized genocide, rape and servitude, the state offered a reward of $40,000 to any bounty hunter who could bring her to “justice.” And if you think $40,000 goes a long way now, imagine what it did in 1875. Tubman was so vigorously desired by the state, not only because she broke the laws of chattel slavery (she was legally a thief, who ran away with thousands