For four decades, residents of Florida town were poisoned by toxic chemicals from a beryllium plant (nearly one person in every household was diagnosed with cancer with many dying young) but the county, state, and the industry hid the dangerous pollution problem from the residents.

The consequences of the GOP and its cronies destroying the US economy: Indiana suggests leaving disabled family members at homeless sheltes.

So the Gulf oil disaster is over says the government and the oil industry......then what about all of this?

US taxpayers have been plundered to the staggering tune of US$500 billion - and counting, and 16 agencies of the US intelligence establishment where 1 million Americans hold top secret clearances still haven't found Osama bin Laden.

Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO and member of the Congressional Oversight Panel puts Treasury in the hot seat, attempting to get Geithner and his crew to wake up to the mortgage fraud crisis.

Major American newspapers' coverage of Wikileaks US Iraq war documents dump was "lame and defensive." That the documents show that “top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world.” seems not to have made any difference to the "government subservient" US press.

Violating state law......A McDonald's franchise in Ohio tells employees (in a pamphlet enclosed with their paychecks) to vote Republican if they want to continue receiving raises and benefits.