By Anna Werner Abortion is being debated once again on the campaign trail and in state capitals. Lawmakers in Virginia could vote as early as Wednesday on a law that would require women to have an ultrasound before getting an… Read More ›
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Investigation of Neighborhood Watch Captain Who Shot Teen Trayvon Martin Reveals Questionable Police Conduct
By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) and SENI TIENABESO ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged “correction” of at… Read More ›
Homeless mother who sent six-year-old son to better school in the wrong town jailed for five years
By Graham Smith A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison. Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead… Read More ›
Should Occupy Use Violence?
I Dunno, Should the Cops? by KEVIN CARSON Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his… Read More ›
Afghanistan demands NATO put Koran-burners on trial
(Reuters) – Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident. It said… Read More ›
Alexandra Kollontai: ‘Women’s Day’ February 1913
The article ‘Women’s Day’ by Alexandra Kollontai was published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913. In St Petersburg… Read More ›
Clara Zetkin on Organizing Women Workers
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. Clara Zetkin was German born: When Adolf Hitler and his fascist National Socialist German Workers Party with the assistance of the other reactionaries took over power, the Communist… Read More ›
Free Market Health Care: True Stories by Michael Parenti
I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get… Read More ›
Miami Valedictorian Gets Support In Fight Against Deportation
A federal judge’s decision to deport a high school valedictorian who has lived in the United States since she was 4 has sparked her Miami community to rally around her. And now student Daniela Pelaez, 18, also seems to have… Read More ›
Judge Who Emailed Racist Obama Joke Calls For Investigation On Himself
U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull says he will apologize to President Obama and ask for a panel of judges to investigate his conduct after a Montana newspaper reported he had sent a racially inflammatory message using his courthouse email account… Read More ›
‘The blackest lie in history’: Republican congressional candidate says the Holocaust never happened
-Illinois candidate Arthur Jones, 64, ‘organises Nazi events to celebrate Hitler’s birthday’ -‘The Holocaust is an international extortion racket’ -Candidate has spent life savings on congressional run A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says… Read More ›
Montana judge admits sending racist email about Obama
Judge Richard Cebull says he doesn’t like the president, but he doesn’t consider himself a racist. Reporting from Seattle— Montana’s chief federal judge Wednesday admitted forwarding an email to friends about President Obama that appears to equate African Americans with… Read More ›
Update on Menominee girl punished for speaking native language in classroom
MILWAUKEE – While the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has apologized to the Menominee Tribe and the family of a seventh-grader who was punished for using her native language at school, the girl’s mother said Tuesday that she still wants… Read More ›
50 American Indian Protestors Seek to Stop Desecration at Construction Site
Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges SAN DIEGO COUNTY – In a story unfolding this afternoon, a group of 50 American Indians, including tribal council members and elders, are prepared to step in front of bulldozers to stop the further… Read More ›
Occupy Sacramento Confronts White Nationalist Group
Occupy Sacramento clashes with pro-white group SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group… Read More ›
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