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Hanaa Rifaey, president of the American Independent News Network, which publishes the Michigan Messenger, was interviewed on Free Speech TV on Tuesday about the Occupy Wall Street protests and AINN’s continuing coverage of corporate influence on elections. Video below the fold.

With unemployment still hovering near double digits, the Christian Science Monitor this week highlights a forgotten angle in the government’s efforts to help

Monday night, after weeks of pressure from Republicans to lift a federal moratorium on new offshore oil drilling, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

The candidates are mostly friendly as they take their two minute introductions. Mostly. After Katon Dawson bragged that he’d turned the South Carolina GOP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just named the latest members of the White House deficit commission: Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.),

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into

Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for U.S. Senate in Nevada, is in some hot water for remarks she made to a

It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session

Carol J. Williams profiles John Yoo, who provides some of the most deliciously boastful quotes this side of a James Bond movie. He’s done, he thinks, with the

Also addressed during President-elect Barack Obama’s juicy press conference about the Blagojevich scandal was the presser’s stated subject, health

Over at TPMmuckraker, Justin Elliott remembers that during the Democratic primary, Secretary of State-designee Hillary Rodham Clinton was an enthusiastic

Great catch by North Carolina’s Progressive Pulse, which find Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), conscious of possible party of no attacks, waffling on whether a

As if Congress’ reputation isn’t dreary enough, Dr. Jack Kevorkian -- aka Dr. Death -- announced his candidacy Monday in Michigan’s 9th district, currently

Minnesota’s Episcopalians voted this weekend to oppose a ballot question that would change the Minnesota Constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Fresh off some heartening poll numbers for Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) in his Senate race, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) had announced that it will launch a

It faded from news coverage over the past few weeks, but when President Obama returns from Prague, he’ll have to make a decision 0n pressing forward to try

Glenn Beck claims the government helped fund a video mocking his quotes. Tim Kaine isn’t wild about Joe Manchin’s cap-and-trade-shooting ad. 50 Cent

In a blow to the coal industry’s fight against climate change legislation, Duke Energy, the electric utility giant, has dropped out of the American Coalition

This morning, environmental activists erected two 20-foot teepees (for lack of a better term) in front of EPA headquarters in Washington to protest mountaintop

In non-shoe-throwing news, Anand Gopal of the Christian Science Monitor does some great reporting about something called the Afghan Social Outreach Program,

Throughout the Bush administration, Bush officials -- including the president, as you can see here -- consistently said that this government does not torture