Is a person struggling with drinking be more prone to weeping in public? Speaking generally, Dr. Robert DuPont, who served as the second White House drug czar and was the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told Matt Lewis of PoliticsDaily.com: “alcohol reduces inhibitions. Whatever emotion you have, you’re more likely to [...]

The following is an excerpt from David Swanson’s self-published new book War Is A Lie (David Swanson, 2010).    [ By: David Swanson ]Since the Vietnam War, the United States has dropped all pretense of a military draft equally applied to all. Instead we spend billions of dollars on recruitment, increase military pay, and offer signing [...]

   Prof. Mahfuz ChowdhuryThe rule of Bangladesh, a country of 150 million people, has pretty much turned into family affairs. The center of power now clearly revolves around two prominent families – one is of former civilian authoritarian ruler and the other is of former military autocrat. Both families currently lead the country’s two dominant parties [...]

Media Matters: Right-wing media figures have again cited a December snowstorm as evidence that global warming isn’t real. But scientists agree that short-term localized weather patterns are not relevant to global warming, and according to climate data centers, 2010 will rank among the hottest years on record. [ READ MORE ] Visit msnbc.com for breaking [...]

New York Times: “…..some groups in the old Confederacy are planning at least a certain amount of hoopla, chiefly around the glory days of secession, when 11 states declared their sovereignty under a banner of states’ rights and broke from the union. The events include a “secession ball” in the former slave port of Charleston [...]