The bank announced $3.1 billion in third-quarter profits today, and set aside $5.3 billion for bonuses. Help us find out how they spend it.

Reining in the financial industry’s power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought.

Kaptur started a peaceful Project Mayhem, a revolution where the wronged refuse to happily play their parts in a fixed game concocted by Wall Street and the government.

Protesters’ signs carried Obama-specific barbs: “Change? What Change?” “The Audacity of War Crimes.” “Yes We Can: U.S. Out of Afghanistan.” Several of the demonstrators had T-shirts showing a missile labeled “Obomba” and the question “Is it really OK if Obama does it?”

Over 210 people were swept up and arrested, as authorities fired rubber bullets, beanbags, pepper spray, OC gas and deployed a new sound weapon to suppress citizen protest at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Estimates from organizers vary widely but numerous other antiwar, environmental and anti-poverty groups plan to demonstrate this Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh to coincide with the meetings. In response, the city, after losing its law suits, has brought in approximately 4,000 extra police for the summit.

Two weeks ago, Ann Minch announced in a YouTube video that she’d launched a one-woman “Debtors’ Revolt” and would refuse to pay off her credit card balance after an unfair interest-rate hike. Now, after her video made a huge splash, Bank of America has agreed to reduce her rate.

The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change.

Bank of America rewards loyalty by repeatedly raising interest rates. Is it time for a debtor’s revolt?

If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists.

The voices of change, those who speak in powerful and yet unfamiliar words, will cry out Sept. 25 and 26 in Pittsburgh when protesters from around the country gather to defy the heads of state, bankers and finance ministers from the G-20.

These next several weeks and months are critical in redirecting our country away from Common Destruction and towards the Common Good. Decisions will be made which could send hopes for health care, education, living wage jobs, a new environmental policy crashing upon the shoals of never ending war.

When you are just one person sitting on a warming planet – when you see economies collapsing, wars raging, and reasons for fear on every corner – how should you react?

Protesters and security forces are clashing in the streets of Honduras’ capital, a day after the military ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Another day of Iran election protests, another day of mass violence against the protesters. Here’s a report from UPI and the three most intense videos from today.

Shocking new video of Iranian student protesters being shot and killed.

Many of the demonstrators may be sincere in their protest, hoping to free themselves from Islamic moral codes. But if reports of the US government’s plans to destabilize Iran are correct, paid troublemakers are in their ranks.

The time is now to take on the powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and pass a single-payer national health care program.

Never have we been closer to realizing the dream of healthcare as a human right than we are at this moment.

iPhone users angry over AT&T’s pricing policy for the new iPhone 3G S have taken their campaign to Twitter, where more than 4,400 have added their names to an instant petition.