The question of torture, and specifically the possible use of torture to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, has been drowned out by the Washington drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.

More than one million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years. Close to 4,500 have died in Iraq and nearly 20 percent of those who return have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Well over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. As Memorial Day approaches how will soldiers, families of soldiers, and the rest of our society reflect on the dead and those still living with the

More than one million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years. Close to 4,500 have died in Iraq and nearly 20 percent of those who return have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Today we speak with veterans and families of soldiers on the challenges that soldiers face returning from war. Marshall Ganz on the peace movement.

For-profit health insurers don't like a marketplace of competition with an option that's non-profit.

In December of last year Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago announced that it was shutting down. The company gave its employees only a few days notice but rather than leave the workers decided to stay. They occupied the factory and demanded accountability from management and from Bank of America, a major recipient of bailout funds, who refused to extend the company's line of credit.

Over the last couple of decades millions of Americans have dispensed with convention and embraced a non traditional work life. 9-5 jobs looked grim -- but now with unemployment at 8.9 percent and over half a million losing their jobs montly, the appeal of convention and perhaps a bit of sercurity is coming back.

Obama deserves some credit for acknowledging that corporate tax-scamming is a problem—Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were happy to sign-off on laws that made it easier for wealthy companies to evade taxes. But Obama’s crackdown doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Just last week Hartmarx, a Chicago company in the business of making business suits, including the one Barack Obama wore at his inauguration, filed for bankruptcy. Wells Fargo, its biggest creditor and a recipient of $25 billion in bailout funds, wants to liquidate the company. But Hartmarx workers have said no.

Workers at the suit makers, Hart, Schaffner & Marx make fine suits including the suit that Barack Obama wore to his inauguration. But now they're facing layoffs. If Wells Fargo bank goes through with its plans to liquidate the business some 500 workers will be out of a job. And the workers are threatening to push back.

Workers take direct action to save their jobs and rebuild the economy. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis on worker run businesses. The Hartmarx campaign in Chicago. And Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work if You Can Get It on life and labor in precarious times.