Shane Ratliff died on Monday. I met him in Ruby, South Carolina during the filming of Robert Greenwald's film Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers. Shane was one of the many people we interviewed for a documentary about how the likes of Halliburton/KBR, CACI, Blackwater, and other corporations stuck their...

The British rock/folk artist Billy Bragg informed me that Barack Obama had sampled gospel and R&B singer Sam Cooke in his victory speech Tuesday night. Mesmerized by the event, I hadn't noticed when Obama simultaneously reached forward and back, to Cooke's 1964 single "Change is Gonna Come," with his opening...

The British rock/folk artist Billy Bragg informed me that Barack Obama had sampled gospel and R & B singer Sam Cooke in his victory speech Tuesday night. Mesmerized by the event, I hadn't noticed when Obama simultaneously reached forward and back, to Cooke's 1964 single Change is Gonna Come, with...

Could you tell us the greatest moral failure of your life, and greatest moral failure of America?

Thomas Jefferson: You, Pastor Warren, live in world where everything must be confessed, not just to a preacher, or to one's God, but rather to the world...

On August 28th, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King told the world about his dream of racial equality in the United States. On that day, and increasingly as he matured as a political thinker by confronting the exigencies of his time, King also articulated a dream of class...

Kerry Candaele, a producer for Brave New Films, is currently interviewing workers laid off as a result of private equity takeovers for BNF's second short documentary in its "War on Greed" series at www.warongreed.org.

Rockford, Illinois, as a city, is a bit player in our national drama. The city...

Ted Koppel appeared on NPR earlier this week, where he is now a regular commentator, and again made a pitch for private contractors doing the nation's warring business in Iraq. He's been at this for some time now, He's been at this for some time now, having chummy conversations...

Ruby is lush, up country South Carolina, population 347 with narrow roads take people from place to place, and where the pace of life is as drawn out as the local dialect. Stock cars are the only things run fast around Ruby, and the races are the most powerful draw...

The factory area around Shenzhen in Southern China is stunning for anyone who visits for the first time. What's most shocking are the numbers: the number of workers, factories, dormitories, tiny worker apartments that stretch for miles in every direction. Try driving to get out of the factory area and...