The Government’s Plans to expand civil asset forfeiture  John Whitehead is a civil attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights for the the persecuted and oppressed. In 1982 he founded The Rutherford Institute, a non-profit civil liberties and human rights organization headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Institute provides legal services …
Big pharma cover-up: Antidepressants cause birth defects
False advertising and deceptive promotion can have deadly consequences. But big pharma appears to be acting outside the law, no matter the costs. That appears to be the case with manufacturers of the antidepressants Lexapro and Paxil.Mothers of babies born with birth defects have filed numerous lawsuits against Forest Labs, manufacturer of Lexapro, for failure to warn them of potential risks to their unborn …
All Together Now – 11.12.15
Eleanor LeCain discusses the state of the women’s movement with Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority, and women’s economic security with Terry O’Neill, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
The Fight Over Obamacare Was a Giant Political Charade By Sonali Kolhatkar
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) subsidies for health insurance for the poor were indeed constitutional, liberals cheered. The last-ditch attempt by the right to gut President Obama’s signature act failed. In his weekly address, Obama triumphantly announced that “after more than fifty votes in Congress to repeal or weaken this law; …