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Obama’s Chance to Be Next FDR or Reagan Fading Fast
Washington - President Barack Obama's dream of being a historically transformational figure like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan may be slipping from his grasp. To be sure, he's …
Congress Told DoD Data on Sexual Assault and Rape in Military Is “Lacking in Accuracy, Reliability and Validity“
A Department of Defense (DoD) Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military told a Congressional committee on February 3, 2010, "DoD's procedures for collecting and documenting data about …
Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence
In mid-December 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico’s handling of the cases of three women who had been murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad …
Deb Price | Openness Driving Nation Forward
What's the difference between “homosexuals” and “gay men and lesbians”? Turns out a lot — a whopping 14 percentage points of support, a New York Times-CBS News poll released …
The Real Roots of the CIA’s Rendition and Black Sites Program
On Tuesday, February 10, the British High Court finally released a “seven-paragraph court document showing that MI5 officers were involved in the ill-treatment of a British resident, Binyam Mohamed.” …
Conversation With Daniel Ellsberg: Evaluating Obama So Far
Daniel Ellsberg is definitely a name out of our national past. Baby Boomers immediately conjure up images of the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers. For the younger set, …
Frida Berrigan | America’s Global Weapons Monopoly: Don’t Call it “the Global Arms Trade“
On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, …
David Swanson: Don’t Expect an Election to Change Everything
When Barack Obama was swept into the White House last year on a mandate of hope and change, many progressives believed his arrival meant they could finally roll down …
Anti-Mine Activists Encouraged by Canadian Ruling
Guatamala City - Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent …
Blood Simple: Columbia University’s Ten-Year Cover-Up of Patient Harm, Conflicts of Interest and Administrative Misconduct
On September 15, 2006, Patricia Sachs Catapano, Esq., an associate general counsel of Columbia University in the City of New York and in-house lawyer for its Medical Center, wrote …