What the elites in Washington are conniving.
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated… Read More ›
By THOMAS KAPLAN ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation… Read More ›
State senators approved a gay marriage bill 25-22 Thursday, moving Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages. Gay marriage opponents in the Senate unsuccessfully attempted to attach amendments to the House bill, which… Read More ›
Celebrating the Self-Empowerment of Elite White Women by GAIL DINES I usually like watching Meryl Streep, but I seriously hope that she doesn’t win an Oscar on Sunday for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I couldn’t stand the thought of… Read More ›
By ED WHITE The Associated Press DETROIT — An undercover informant was paid about $31,000 in cash for his critical role in an investigation that led to charges against members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting rebellion against the… Read More ›
(Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the… Read More ›
(Reuters) – Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill legalizing gay marriage as promised on Friday, asking lawmakers instead to appoint an advocate for same-sex couples under the state’s existing civil union law. Christie, a supporter of Republican… Read More ›
GAZA CITY: Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man. According to the sources, the latest air strike, which targeted a home in the… Read More ›
(Reuters) – A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday more than a month after Iran warned a different carrier — USS John C. Stennis — not to return to the Gulf as Iranian navy… Read More ›
It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the… Read More ›
The comment made by Foster Friess is not simply the case of one man making a chauvinist comment. Rather, it reveals anti-choice campaigners for their inherent patriarchy and misogyny, implying that women should have no right over their own reproduction… Read More ›
24 million of the nation’s active voter registrations have serious errors, Pew Center on the States finds By Braden Goyette / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS At least 1.8 million registered voters won’t be showing up to the polls this fall… Read More ›
By KATE ZERNIKE TRENTON — The New Jersey State Senate voted on Monday to legalize same-sex marriage, a significant shift in support from two years ago, when a similar measure failed. The legislation faces a vote on Thursday in the… Read More ›
State Dept Claims Assad Allies Planning ‘Exit Strategy’ by Jason Ditz, February 10, 2012 In past examples (notably Iraq) the clearest indication of a forthcoming war have been when the reports on the ground turned from exaggerations to hysteria to… Read More ›
Three letters from core hunger strike organizers: Todd Ashker, Mutope Duguma (James Crawford), Arturo Castellanos by Todd Ashker Written Jan. 22, postmarked Jan. 27, 2012 – As soon as I first heard during our face to face meeting with former… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 