As many of you already know, earlier today PA Governor Tom Corbett, announced a draconian budget that would cut deep into the fabric of PA’s public institutions while handing over huge give-backs to corporations. Last […]
Editor’s Note: On Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, Noam Chomsky spoke at Kutztown University as part of the university’s inaugural celebration of UNESCO”s World Philosophy Day. You can watch his talk, “The United States and the […]
Perhaps the most alarming fact about hydraulic fracturing—fracking—is that it’s still going on at all despite the enormity of the evidence against it. Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon must think there’s a special god just for […]
“No government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and if people withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill.” –Gandhi […]
Editor’s Note: Unlike previous Rick Smith Files, this month Raging Chicken Press brings you three interviews from the Rick Smith Show from the November 16, 2011 show that all deal with the issue of privatization. […]
The Occupy Wall Street protests have achieved an inadvertent goal: shining a light the militarization of the police forces after September 11, 2001. Now in Washington D.C., the political elite, from both Houses of Congress, […]
The march starts off right on schedule. A group of 40 or so protesters stage under the imposing shadow of City Hall at Occupy Philadelphia on October 23rd, and then cross 15th Street, winding through […]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has trained the nation’s and the world’s attention on the stark disparity of wealth and privilege that has come to characterize the early 21st century. Yet that inequity has been […]
I groggily awaken in my sleeping bag to a sharp nudge, followed by another. “He needs to wake up. Get up, out of the bag.” The bag is over my head to block out the […]
[Rick Smith]: Last night we had Susie Cagal on the program. Turns out, she got arrested after she was on the program. She tweeted earlier, “charged with misdemeanor ‘Present at Raid’, arraignment not for a […]