ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are “lies straight from the pit of hell” meant to convince people that they do not need a savior. The… Read More ›
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Wal-Mart Strike: Dozens Of LA Workers Walk Off The Job In First-Ever Strike Against Retailer (PHOTOS)
by Kathleen Miles For the first time in Walmart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores have gone on strike, even though their jobs are not protected by a labor union. More than 70 Los Angeles Walmart workers from nine stores… Read More ›
US Envoy: Preparations Made for Attacking Iran
Insists US ‘Totally in Sync’ With Israel by Jason Ditz In an interview today with the Times of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro denied any disagreements between the US and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the prospect… Read More ›
Land sold off and used for biofuels could have fed 1 billion people – report
2 million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is sold every six days. The report… Read More ›
PTSD Counselors Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Troubled Army Base
By Mike Elk, In These Times In 2010, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes labeled Fort Lewis-McChord, a joint Army and Air Force base in Washington state, “the most troubled base in the military” due to its inability to treat… Read More ›
Judges Skeptical of CIA’s Drone Secrecy Claims
Cite Administration’s Repeated Confirmation of the Program by Jason Ditz A three-judge panel at the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has reacted with skepticism to the CIA’s claims of secrecy in response to ACLU requests for information… Read More ›
The war between the civilized man and the savage
A provocative ad which debuted last month in San Francisco is making its way to New York subways today. Starting from Monday, September 24, 2012, as the UN General Assembly picks up momentum in New York and heads of states… Read More ›
California Is First State to Ban Gay ‘Cure’ for Minors
By ERIK ECKHOLM California has become the first state to ban the use for minors of disputed therapies to “overcome” homosexuality, a step hailed by gay rights groups across the country that say the therapies have caused dangerous emotional harm… Read More ›
US Official: Military Action Needed in Mali
The apparent haven of radical Islamists in Mali is a consequence of US interventionism and now justifying further intervention A top US official told the Associated Press that military action will be needed to eliminate radical Islamists from the haven… Read More ›
Political Cartoon: Free Bradley Manning, Nobel nominee, WikiLeaks whistleblower
“Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He… Read More ›
Drones: the west’s new terror campaign
by Clive Stafford Smith Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA’s… Read More ›
Dawood National Military Hospital Kabul Scandal Should End War in Afghanistan
by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military… Read More ›
ACLU Takes CIA to Court Over Secret Drone War Everybody Knows About
by John Glaser The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are… Read More ›
Video: Exposed – ‘Auschwitz-like’ US death camp hospital in Kabul
Senior US military officers blew the whistle on horrific conditions at the National Military Hospital in Kabul. They revealed some graphic images, showing severely neglected, starving patients at the hospital, which the US military sponsors and helps oversee. Witnesses describe… Read More ›
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