By George Bialek “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken As an American living in Moscow I have often been a witness to concrete examples of how the Western… Read More ›
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Cuba has Eliminated Child Malnutrition, Highlights the UNICEF
HAVANA, Cuba.- Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean that has eliminated child malnutrition, thanks to the government’s efforts to improve the diet of the most vulnerable groups, asserts an international organization. The last report of… Read More ›
Mitt Romney Video: Barack Obama Voters ‘Dependent On Government’
WASHINGTON — The overwhelming majority of voters who back President Barack Obama do so because they are “dependent on government” and “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing,” Mitt Romney told a closed-door gathering of… Read More ›
Mayor goes to court to end Chicago teachers strike
By Jason Meisner and Hal Dardick Tribune reporters Chicago Public Schools students will miss a seventh day of classes Tuesday as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s attempt to get the courts to quickly end the teachers strike did not produce immediate results…. Read More ›
Obama Notifies Congress of Troops Deployed to Libya and Yemen
President Obama has taken the formal step of notifying Congress that he has deployed troops “equipped for combat” to Libya and Yemen to defend U.S. citizens and property, pursuant to the War Powers Resolution. “Although these security forces are equipped… Read More ›
What’s Driving the Chicago Teachers Strike
Targeting Teacher Evaluations by BINOY KAMPMARK “This was a strike of choice, a bad choice for our children and not necessary,” decried an irritated Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. 350,000 students and 26,000 teachers have stayed out of classes now for… Read More ›
Political Cartoon: 39 years later, Chile remembers 9/11 terror attacks
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Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks’ Assange cancelled
Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but… Read More ›
Judge orders accused Fort Hood shooter to shave or be shaved
A military judge today ordered that the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage must shave off his beard or have it forcibly shaved. “I am ordering the accused to be clean-shaven for all subsequent pretrial… Read More ›
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush, Blair should face trial at the Hague
By DAVID STRINGER LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the… Read More ›
Israeli Court Whitewashes Military Role in Murder of American Activist
No Justice for Martyred Internationalist On 28 August 2012, an Israeli court in Haifa rejected charges that the Israeli Defense Forces or Israel’s Ministry of Defense were in any way responsible for the killing of American internationalist and solidarity activist… Read More ›
Israel’s lynch mob violence
An assault on a Palestinian teenager has shone a spotlight on a cauldron of prejudice that runs through the Israeli establishment, explains Hadas Thier. DOZENS OF Jewish teens in Jerusalem’s Zion Square beat a Palestinian youth, 17-year-old Jamal Julani, nearly… Read More ›
The modern US army: unfit for service?
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit by Matt Kennard My journey into the dark underworld of the US military… Read More ›
Rev. Moon, religious and political figure, dies in South Korea at 92
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 