On this call, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) gave an update on current Afghanistan legislation, and Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project described the resources on their website. PDA’s new “Brown Bag Vigil” …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Thank goodness America wasn’t in recovery from eight years of a Republican contract on America back when another president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed Medicare into law back in 1965, a program that …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
In 1942, somewhere around 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans were either coered to relocate, or underwent internment in the United States.
As you know, it was by executive order issued by …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
It looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate waterboarding, and other illegal acts that were part of the interrogation policies put in …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
There have been no shortage of news stories about how detainees have been treated at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib before it. Likewise, there has been a lot of talk about so-called …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
You may have already heard about the lawsuit against Bernie Madoff’s wife by a trustee which attempts to recover nearly $50 million of the funds Madoff swindled from investors in what many …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
When, in June, Stanley McChrystal found himself on the brink of taking over as general in Afghanistan, he declared the Afghan war to be “winnable.” Now that he’s at the helm, he’s …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Senator Feinstein was right when she told Fox News, on Sunday, that we have a “problem” with a vice president who orders the head of the Central Intelligence Agency not to disclose …