by Ben Feller President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness last night on the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden to sign an agreement cementing US commitment to the nation after American combat troops… Read More ›
How the US Government is Profiteering Off of Struggling Students by DAVE LINDORFF The Senate is currently deadlocked on taking action to prevent the interest on new Stafford guaranteed student loans from rising on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8%,… Read More ›
by Ruth Pollard RAMALLAH: The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to at least 2800, human rights groups say, while two of the inmates hovered close to death as they entered their 69th day… Read More ›
A neo-Nazi party that wants work camps for immigrants is on course to win its first seats in parliament on Sunday by Daniel Howden It started, as many days do in Greece, with a trip to the kiosk to buy… Read More ›
By JULIE WATSON and KEVIN FREKING SAN DIEGO — The case of a detained college student who was forgotten in a holding cell for more than four days suggests a breakdown in procedure and oversight within the Drug Enforcement Administration,… Read More ›
NewsRescue- Sadly feels like we are back to the early 90′s, when the Darwin racist evolutionary theories were fresh, and Africans were kept in US zoos. Many of us remember the story of Ota Benga, the pigmy from the Bachichiri… Read More ›
NEW DELHI — India’s successful test of a powerful new missile that can carry nuclear weapons to Beijing caused barely a ripple — even in China — just days after North Korea was globally vilified for a failed rocket launch…. Read More ›
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea unveiled new cruise missiles on Thursday that it said could hit any target in North Korea, and warned Pyongyang it would immediately retaliate against any provocation. The announcement follows a failed North Korean… Read More ›
Romania’s government fell after a no-confidence vote and the leadership of the Czech Republic narrowly survived a similar challenge Friday in the latest challenges to European efforts to heal the Continent’s debt crisis with tough spending cuts and higher taxes…. Read More ›
JERUSALEM — Israeli prison officials say that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who declared a hunger strike two weeks ago are continuing to refuse food as they demand better conditions. Sivan Weizman of Israel’s prison authority said Monday that 1,450 remain… Read More ›
by Michelle Goldberg Conservatives are focusing on Trayvon’s tweets, appearance, school suspension over marijuana traces, and the hoodie he was wearing to blame him for his own death—and to show that his killing had nothing to do with racism. Plus… Read More ›
The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks. Two of the 18… Read More ›
After the Los Angeles Times publishes two pictures, American officials denounce the actions of troops photographed with dead insurgents and their body parts. By David Zucchino and Laura King From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American… Read More ›
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
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