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 ›
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U.S. carrier crosses Hormuz amid rising Gulf tensions
(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 ›
Western Libya Militias Form Alliance Against Government
Leader of New Federation Lashes NTC for Gadhafi Ties As the nation still suffers the aftershocks from last year’s civil war, the battle lines for the next Libyan Civil War are starting to take shape today, with the announcement that… Read More ›
Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat
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 ›
Myths About Socialism: Is It Really Just a Matter of Corporate Greed?
Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy… Read More ›
Rick Santorum Supporter Says Women Should Keep Their Legs Closed for Birth Control
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 ›
1.8 MILLION dead people still registered to vote in the U.S., study says
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 ›
New Jersey Senate Votes to Legalize Gay Marriage
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 ›
Chemical Weapons and Iranian Invasions: Syria Hysteria Turns to Wild Rumors
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 ›
Niger won’t extradite Saadi Gadhafi
NIAMEY, Libya, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Officials in Niger said Saturday they will not return Saadi Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, to Libya because he might be killed there. Marou Amadou, a government spokesman, said Niger would… Read More ›
From Pelican Bay: CDCR to offset prison population cut by putting more men in solitary
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 ›
NYPD Boss’ Son Returns To TV After Rape Claim
NEW YORK — The New York City police commissioner’s TV host son resumed his morning show duties at “Good Day New York” on Friday, telling viewers it had been a tough couple of weeks but he was ready to get… Read More ›
Trial of “Hutaree” Right-Wing Terrorist Militia Begins in Michigan
By Tresa Baldas and David Ashenfelter, Detroit Free Press DETROIT – The government says they’re homegrown terrorists who plotted to kill police officers with bombs and guns. Their defense lawyers say they’re tough-talking, good ol’ boys who had no real… Read More ›
Washington governor signs gay marriage law
By Nicole Neroulias OLYMPIA, Wash | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:20pm EST (Reuters) – Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books recognizing same-sex marriage on Monday, as opponents of the measure signed… Read More ›
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by… Read More ›
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