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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Single-payer health-care advocates are arrested in Newark protesting insurance companies | Bob Braun - NJ.com
(1 comments) Seven people were arrested yesterday after they blocked entrances to the headquarters of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in Newark, NJ. They were protesting, among other things, the compensation paid to the president of the health insurance company and the failure of Congress to pass health insurance reform.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Divided House Committee Passes Iran Sanctions
(1 comments) A divided House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA) today by voice vote.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Breaking: High Court to Consider Uighurs' Plea for Freedom
The Supreme Court is taking up a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon determines they're not a threat to the United States.

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Service Dogs Help Traumatized Veterans Heal
These trained canines alert owners to warning signs of PTSD, experts say.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Franken Raises Issue of Net Neutrality at Sotomayor Hearing
The new senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, asked a decidedly unfunny question this afternoon when it was his turn to quiz Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor. Franken turned to the contentious issue of net neutrality, or rules that would require cable and phone companies to treat legal Internet traffic equally and would prevent the creation of a two-tiered system that would allow speedier deliver of premium services.

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Jeremy Scahill: "The Responsible Left:" Funding Obama's Expanding Wars $100 Billion a Vote
(1 comments) Jeremy Scahill: Over the past few days, we reported on how the White House and Democratic Congressional Leadership waged a dirty campaign to scare up votes to support another $106 billion in funds for their wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now, several of the so-called anti-war Democrats who left their principles at the House coat check on their way in to vote Tuesday are trying to explain away their hypocritical votes.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Down and Out in Shah Mansoor
In Pakistan's Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows. The sun bore down on the Shah Mansoor camp, which has become a temporary home to thousands of displaced Pakistanis from the Swat area.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Why is Dennis Ross being ousted as Obama envoy to Iran?
Haaretz: Dennis Ross, who most recently served as a special State Department envoy to Iran, will abruptly be relieved of his duties, sources in Washington told Haaretz. An official announcement is expected in the coming days.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Amnesty International: Obama must prosecute Bush-era torture enablers
(4 comments) Larry Cox is the executive director of Amnesty International USA: With Dick Cheney and the infamous torture memos making headlines, President Obama and our nation face a choice. Should they prosecute or protect those responsible for the torture of detainees in secret CIA detention centers? If our leaders wish to steer our country back to the right side of the law, they must act immediately and unequivocally to prosecute.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Riots Break Out as Ahmadinejad Is Declared Victor in Iran
(11 comments) The Iranian government declared an outright election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday morning, and riot police officers clamped down on a growing demonstration by supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who insisted that the election had been stolen.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Obama promises more than 600,000 stimulus jobs
(1 comments) President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Alfred McCoy, Back to the Future in Torture Policy
(1 comments) Alfred W. McCoy, Tom Dispatch: "If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, you can't help but experience that eerie feeling of deja vu these days.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Haaretz: PM to give major speech in response to Obama address
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss the future of settlement construction and the establishment of a Palestinian state during a major policy address at Bar-Ilan University on Sunday. In the speech, Netanyahu will lay out his plans for Israel's relations with the Palestinian Authority and Arab countries, a source close to the premier said yesterday.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
Two U.S. Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea
(10 comments) North Korea found two U.S. journalists it has held since March guilty of illegal entry and sentenced them to 12 years hard labour, its official KCNA news agency said on Monday. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested while working on a story near the border between North Korea and China. Their trial opened on Thursday.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Breaking: Obama to Tap Republican Congressman for Army Post
(8 comments) President Barack Obama plans to nominate Republican congressman John McHugh as secretary of the Army, an administration official said on Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Maine governor signs gay-marriage bill
(1 comments) Maine's governor signed a bill on Wednesday legalizing same-sex marriage, paving the way for the northeastern most U.S. state to become the fifth in the nation to allow same-sex marriage.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Rocky Mountain News Publishes Final Edition
Questions about the future of the Rocky Mountain News had become so common, the newspaper's staff put up a handwritten paper sign on the news desk that said, "We don't know." On Thursday, someone wrote over it in heavy black marker: "Now we know." Colorado's oldest newspaper, which launched in Denver in 1859, printed its last edition Friday, leaving The Denver Post as the only daily newspaper in town.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Chicago Man Arrested for Sending HIV Infected Blood to Obama
A Chicago man has been arrested for allegedly sending President Barack Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood in the hopes of killing or causing harm to them. A spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said that this is only the second time that HIV-infected blood has been sent with malicious intent through the U.S. mail system.

Monday, December 29, 2008
CNN London: World Rallies Around Palestinians Amid Gaza Offensive
Israeli attacks on suspected Hamas strongholds in Gaza have triggered protests in more than a dozen countries.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Governor of Illinois Arrested on Corruption Charges Related to Filling Obama's Senate Seat
(12 comments) Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama's election as president.

Monday, December 8, 2008
Liberals voice concerns about Obama
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous - and some just flat-out angry - that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He's hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he's stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Afghan Police Say Bomb Explodes Near U.S. Embassy, 1 Dead, 6 Wounded
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in an attack against an American convoy. Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi says one person was killed and six wounded in the attack.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Obama Not Likely to Seek Criminal Charges Against Officials who Authorized Torture
(3 comments) Barack Obama's incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being urged by some constitutional scholars and human rights groups to investigate possible war crimes by the Bush administration.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Eight RNC protesters accused of 'furthering terrorism' thanks to statute
(1 comments) The RNC 8 face more than the standard felony charges. For the first time, authorities are wielding an obscure state anti-terrorism statute passed in the nervous aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Second-degree "conspiracy to commit riot" ordinarily carries a maximum two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, but because the alleged crime was intended to "further terrorism," the sentence can be doubled to a maximum of five years.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Breaking: Gov. Sarah Palin Unlawfuly Abused Her Power Legislative Panel Rules
(2 comments) BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power in firing official, legislative panel rules.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Text of Senate's Wall Street Bailout Bill
Full Text of the Senate's Wall Street Bailout Bill

Monday, September 29, 2008
Special Prosecutor Named in Attorney Firings Case
(1 comments) Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor on Monday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other officials in connection with the firings of nine of United States attorneys in 2006.

Friday, September 26, 2008
Breaking: The Debate Will Go On...With McCain
Senator John McCain will attend tonight's first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss.

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Boehner criticizes Bush on AIG bailout
House Minority Leader John Boehner joined a growing chorus of Republican leaders criticizing the Bush administration for failing to tell Congress about the bailout of American International Group.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
New Jersey mistakenly tells voters they aren't registered
The state department mailed out about 300,000 letters to residents in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Camden and Essex counties telling them they were not eligible to vote. The letters prompted the recipients, majority of whom were registered to vote and did not need to re-register - to deluge election and elected officials with phone calls Monday.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Chuck Samuelson ACLU: The Right to Assembly (video)
Chuck Samuelson of the ACLU says much of the police repression during the RNC was based on law coming out of the Patriot Act. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing dozens of protestors arrested at the RNC

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Naomi Klein on Obama [video]
Klein speaks about Obama and the intellectual and political integrity of the progressive movement. "What will the people who helped win his historic victory ask of Obama now? I hope that we, that you, will demand that he earn the incredible trust that he has been given, because the hard truth is this: Obama may have the energy and the anger and the networks of the antiwar vote, but he does not have a plan to get us out of Iraq

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Gerald Seib of WSJ: McCain, Obama Duel on Russia
In the wake of Russia's march into Georgia, much ink has been spilled analyzing the differences between the ways Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama responded to Moscow's brash move. That's all fine - and all misses the more important point.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Bush says attacks on Georgia "dangerous escalation"
(8 comments) "We call for an end to the Russian bombings," a grim-faced Bush told reporters before heading to the Olympics women's basketball game between the United States and the Czech Republic.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Kucinich wins hearings but not on impeaching Bush
(3 comments) The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment for Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq to the Judiciary Committee. This time the panel will open hearings. But House Democratic leaders emphatically said they would not be about Bush's impeachment.

Sunday, July 13, 2008
Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
By Bill Moyers: Corporate media colludes with democracy's demise.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Report: Iran to Hit Israel if Attacked
(7 comments) The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that Tehran would respond to an attack against it by barraging Israel with missiles, and controlling a key oil passageway in the Persian Gulf.

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern (audio)
(1 comments) Former CIA analyst and antiwar activist Ray McGovern discusses his open letter to Adm. Fallon and the probability of a U.S. attack on Iran, the history of Robert Gates and his weak influence on Bush, the corporate media's corrupt relationship with the state, the Pentagon's bogus Iranian arms expose and the near total indifference of the press, Adm. Fallon's firing for speaking out against attacking Iran, etc.

Friday, May 9, 2008
Prolonging The Inevitable
Once again the U.S. military is conducting major combat operations in Baghdad's Sadr City slum. The targets are Shiite extremists who have been killing our troops and obstructing the so-called progress of a freely elected Iraqi government. For the foreseeable future the violence rages on, US troops will continue to die, Iraqis will die, and according to President Bush it is all for the cause of our freedom here at home.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Time Is Not On Our Side
(2 comments) John Bruhns, Iraq war veteran and legislative coordinator for UFPJ, discusses the recent rise in violence in Iraq, Bush's agenda, and the urgent need to lobby Congress to not give Bush another "blank check" - this one to the tune of 105 billion.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Lawyer: Gitmo Trials Pegged to '08 Campaign
The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a Guantánamo military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.

Friday, March 14, 2008
US/IRAQ: "We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction"
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Mar 14 (IPS) - Hart Viges joined the U.S. Army the day after Sep. 11, 2001, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Advocates Say Ruling Chills Reporters
A judge is trying to bankrupt an ex-reporter with daily fines as much as $5,000 for refusing to disclose her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax attacks, press advocates said Saturday.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Pull the Plug on the War
(1 comments) By John Bruhns, Iraq war veteran and anti-war activist. The continued presence of the U.S. military in Iraq is fanning the flames of global anti-Americanism while stretching our military to a breaking point. To change course for the better, we have to truly understand the enemy we face and make the needed adjustments to our military strategy.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
(4 comments) Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Patriot missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Once again media from overseas covers critical news our media won't. From the Sunday Times: After Vietnam, American veterans testified to the atrocities they witnessed. Now soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are about to do the same.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Ramadan Giving Presents Dilemma for American Muslims
(2 comments) As the mid-September Ramadan fast approaches, many American Muslims are in a quandary about how to fulfill their Quranic obligation to contribute to charity - since the US government has closed down and frozen the assets of many of the leading philanthropies that have traditionally championed Muslim causes, for providing "material support" to terrorist organizations.