It’s a bad sign when George W. Bush’s defense team thinks that a military bill goes too far in violating your rights. But we’ve got just that with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act. This bill authorizes the… Read More ›
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Several Northeast states reduce federal home heating aid benefits to poor families
WASHINGTON — Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter. Deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can’t afford enough heating oil to stay warm. She lives in a drafty trailer… Read More ›
Review of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”
When someone writes and speaks out to expose a system of injustice from the perspective of a former insider, every effort is taken to discredit such a person. The more controversial the information they bring forward, the more their character… Read More ›
A Rape in Haiti
Video Shows UN Troops in Sexual Assault by MARK WEISBROT The video is profoundly disturbing. It shows four men, identified as Uruguayan troops from the UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), apparently raping an 18-year old Haitian youth. Two of them… Read More ›
CIA’s vaccine ruse in Pakistan carries fallout
The phony campaign was aimed at helping find and kill Osama bin Laden, but the doctor involved now faces treason charges, and real immunization workers say Pakistanis don’t trust them. October 07, 2011|By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times Reporting from… Read More ›
U.N.: “Systematic” Torture of Afghan Detainees
By Joshua Partlow and Sayed Salahuddin KABUL — Prisoners handed over by international forces to Afghan custody are being subjected to “systematic’’ torture by Afghan interrogators seeking intelligence in the war against the Taliban, according to a United Nations report… Read More ›
Former Black Panther Abu-Jamal Spared from Legal Lynching
Pennsylvania will no longer pursue execution for radical activist Abu-Jamal in 1981 murder of white police officer One of the most bitter battles over capital punishment in a generation has ended with victory for reformers after prosecutors in Pennsylvania abandoned… Read More ›
City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims
City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth of the force’s undercover efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At… Read More ›
Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance continued to escalate this year even as the share of workers getting less generous coverage reached a new high, according to survey data released Tuesday. In 2011, for the first time, half of workers at… Read More ›
Black Women Report Rape by Rebel Forces in Libya Refugee Camps
Local officials, US ambassador shrug off reports The news doesn’t get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters. In addition to chronic suspicion of being mercenaries for Gadhafi, women in one internal refugee… Read More ›
Myths About Socialism: is Socialism Utopian?
A Socialist Utopia? Among the many arguments against socialism you will commonly hear, one of the most common is the claim that socialism and Marxism are Utopian. Those making this claim will often readily admit that capitalism is “far from… Read More ›
Census finds that poverty dominates many school districts
(Reuters) – Nearly half of all children in America live in school districts with high levels of poverty, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that pointed to financial traps many public schools are caught in. According to the… Read More ›
Egypt protest against military rulers is biggest yet
Close to 100,000 Egyptians fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square to call for the military generals to cede power to a civilian government. The U.S. also urges the military to step aside. Reporting from Cairo— They came by the tens of thousands,… Read More ›
Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann’s Bashing Of HPV Vaccine
Now the nation’s pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate’s statements by physicians themselves, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a tough prescription for Republican… Read More ›
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