Rob Kall

I was a total Marvel comics fan when I was a kid. That meant regular trips to the local corner pharmacy to lay out 10 or 12 cents for the latest Hulk, Thor, Spidey, Fantastic Five and The Avengers.

So I had to...

I interviewed Paul Hetznecker, one of the lead attorneys among a team of 14 lawyers who defended 31 Occupy Philly protesters who were arrested on November 30, 2011, shortly after Occupy Philly was shut down. Their trial was Thursday, April 26 and every protester was acquitted of all charges --...

It's not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood.

Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only person in the world to have read every constitution that has been written since 1946 --...

Is the Occupy Wall Street movement fetishizing the spaces that they occupy? Are they defining the movement based on place rather than the many, many other powerful elements and symbols the movement has developed as it has birthed and evolved?

At almost all the occupied territories I've visited the words...

I first heard the term, "Occupied Territories" from Vanessa, a press person and occupier living at Occupy Philly.

Occupied Territories!!

It struck me as such a more powerful word than the words I had been using to describe the different Occupy Wall Street locales and communities.

Locales or communities exist....

Is more buying, more consuming what the U.S. needs to recover from the economic straits we're in? Maybe it's time to turn the economy upside down, to create a totally new way of measuring success or positive outcomes.

The basic underlying theory of the conservatives is that taxes discourage...

Eric Whitacre started out college wanting to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode. But he discovered choir and it changed his life.

Now he composes classical choral works of music. In a TED conference talk, he told an audience how a young women sang a portion...

The Obama White house says the adventure in Libya is not a war.

Well over 100 cruise missiles have been shot into Libya.

We've established a no-fly zone -- an act of war, as much so as a naval blockade.

We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars, if...

Co-authored by Gustav Wynn

On Sunday, the article, Limbaugh/Hannity Parent Company Admits Hiring Actors to Call Radio Shows, by Gustav Wynn, generated an explosive response on Twitter, in the blogosphere and subsequently, from Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck on their radio shows.

Hannity attacked the...

On Tuesday, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on issues of free speech at George Washington University, 71-year-old former CIA analyst Ray McGovern was assaulted, dragged from the room and double handcuffed with metal cuffs causing profuse bleeding.

What had he done to elicit this treatment? He stood...

'update:

I've made a mistake about the Muslim Brotherhood, thinking they are one and the same with Gemaat Islamiya. They are not. My reference to the Muslim Brotherhood was based on my knowledge about Gemaat Islamiya. I used the names interchangeably and that was an error. My concern...

Joe Scarborough, speaking at Kennedy School of Government, with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was asked about his cynicism.

He replied:

"I'm not actually pessimistic at all, about where the country's going to go. I'm not pessimistic in the least. But I am pessimistic when it comes to...

The drilling of Marcellus, Utica and other Shale natural gas reserves is growing massively, yet, to date, drillers have been allowed to keep secret the chemicals they use in the process (called fracking) that releases the gas, This process involves injecting millions of gallons of chemicals deep under ground.

The...

cross-posted from OpEdNews.com

It is time for the congress to stop giving dynasty welfare to the richest Americans.

Conservatives love their word engineering for inheritance taxes, reframing them as "Death Taxes." Frank Luntz isn't the only one who can play the spin game. I...

The abuses TSA has subjected Americans to represent the way that the White House and both parties have abused the middle class for the past ten years.

So, you're being visually raped or, by groping, legally violated in a way that outrageously trespasses on your privacy.

The head...

With the costs for qualifying blood tests soaring past $100, life insurers are starting to look to consumer data to evaluate potential life insurance customer risk.

Instead of having potential customers take a blood test, get their blood pressure measured and get weighed by someone making a home visit,...

The right is trying, in response to the firing of Juan WIlliams, to de-fund public broadcasting- NPR/PBS. Senator Jim De Mint has even introduced legislation to defund PBS/NPR.

I hope they succeed. They'd be doing the left a huge favor and, in the long run, would regret their...

Listen to the audio podcast of the complete interview here

RK: My guest tonight is Arianna Huffington. Arianna was just featured on the cover of Forbes magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, Technorati ranks her website, Huffington Post, as the number one...

Will Obama pick another Goldman Sachs, Bankster, member of the team of econoterrorists economists who caused the economic meltdown? Or will he appoint someone who has credentials which indicate he or she's been a stalwart supporter of main street families and workers?

Lawrence Summers, it appears, is leaving, because his...

Jean Paul Sartre's most famous quote, "Hell is other people," was acted out by his story, No Exit, about three people, put, for eternity, in the same room with each other, which becomes hellish torture.