A great and very candid video of former Rep. Dennis Kucinich at a film premiere in Washington, D.C. this week. Rep. Kucinich is on the Board of Advisors of the Ron Paul Institute:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: NSA Should be Abolished
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Leslie Gelb on Egypt: Hold Your Nose and Back the Junta!
Long-time foreign policy insider Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, believes democracy is when the guys he likes win. Free elections that produce "enemies" of the US or Israel are by definition not democratic and the winners should be...
Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? The Government Doesn’t Think So
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and...