Good news for the new year. Political prisoner Lynne Stewart has been freed on 'compassionate release' grounds. We interviewed Ly...

Nelson Mandela was buried today, in his ancestral village Qunu. I reprint the following comic in his honor. For those who doubt that co...

The media mourning for Nelson Mandela has been shocking to me. Revisionism in my lifetime always rearranges my senses, and here we are agai...

Yesterday it was announced by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, that Wikileaks whistleblower/political prisoner Bradley Manning was se...

Time for an old car! DEAD AIR regulars know all about my enduring love of old cars, and this cherry-red Chrysler Plymouth parked next ...

Political prisoner and free-speech hero Bradley Manning has been held under inhumane conditions for over 1000 days , and I am hoping this no...

Got copious links for your perusal. ~*~ Did Nikki Haley Kill Climate Study? : The article in The State [Columbia, SC newspaper] also re...

Scott Olsen, Oakland Occupier and member of the advocacy group for veterans Iraq Veterans Against the War , is now in critical condition. ...

The biographies either emphasize what a mild-mannered fellow he was, or how crazy he was; fire in the eyes. I would like to have met him, a...

Photo of Myo Min Zaw courtesy of Amnesty International Progressive bloggers have been called to blog about Myanmar (Burma) today. Withou...