News and Analysis from the United States
by JOAN ROELOFS Saturday, August 11, The New York Times printed a front page article about the nun, Sister Megan Rice, age 82, who committed civil disobedience at the Oak Ridge Tennessee nuclear reservation in a protest against nuclear weapons…. Read More ›
Deadly July Gives Way to an Ugly August July was the deadliest month in Iraq in over two years, with 325 people killed by the reckoning of the Iraqi Health Ministry. August looks like it might surpass it pretty handily… Read More ›
It could be a tactic to stave off an Israeli attack before the November elections, but such talk is incredibly dangerous According to Israel’s Channel 10 news, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon meet so… Read More ›
The families of Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated by foreign-backed terrorists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, for their involvement in the murders. Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who… Read More ›
The racist group takes to the streets at night carrying torches. They organize via text message so that authorities won’t know where they’ll appear next. A German neo-Nazi group has been harnessing 21st century technology to stage terrifying flash-mob protests… Read More ›
A long-running struggle by General Motors workers in Colombia garnered new attention last week when five workers went on a hunger strike to protest the company’s firing of sick workers, sewing their lips together to draw attention to their cause…. Read More ›
Former PM Olmert: No Reason to Attack Now Amid a growing flurry of speculation that an Israeli attack on Iran is imminent, a new poll from the Dialogue Institute shows a solid majority of the nation is opposed to the… Read More ›
An unnamed, off-duty officer has killed the father of a little girl he crashed into late Saturday night. Authorities say that Taniyah Middleton, 4, was crossing First Avenue in the Maywood section of Chicago with her older cousin when the… Read More ›
“All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms “[T[ake care of this archbishop, these Jesuits, these other priests and especially these foreigners who are ruining the minds of our children. And… Read More ›
Circa 1870, the North fought the South in the Civil War. Half a century later, around 1920, worker unrest, racial tensions and anti-Communist sentiment caused another nationwide upsurge of violence. Then, 50 years later, the Vietnam War and Civil Rights… Read More ›
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›
Feds Can’t Be Sued for Illegally Spying on Americans The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown out the only lawsuit ever likely to advance on the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping, declaring in their ruling that the… Read More ›
Hate groups have uneasy history with military base A billboard along the main road into Fort Bragg, N.C., in the mid-1990s read: “Enough! Let’s start taking back America.” Below the slogan was the telephone number for the National Alliance, a… Read More ›
In the wake of the recent shootings by a racist skin-head of the Hammerskin Nation, we have reprinted a description and list of terms relevant to the ideology of racist skins in America, so that our readers will be informed… Read More ›
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday barred the delegations of five countries from attending a diplomatic conference in Ramallah, in the West Bank, upending plans by the Palestinian president to announce his intention to renew the Palestinians’ bid this September for… Read More ›
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