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Report: “No Strategic Value” to Afghan Outpost Where Eight Died
Washington - A U.S. military investigation into a battle last October in eastern Afghanistan that cost eight American soldiers their lives has concluded that the small outpost was worthless, …
Clinic Owners Face Down Danger to Make Reproductive Freedom A Reality
Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures in the country; ironically, those professionals and staff who make sure that abortion is safe may find their own safety compromised. …
Medical Flights From Haiti Slow for Sick Kids
Bureaucratic paperwork is delaying medical flights from Haiti to the United States and is endangering children wounded in the earthquake, doctors say. Port-au-Prince - One child died and the …
White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement
The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs stirring its anti-government contempt.
Goldman’s Chief Gets Bonus of $9 Million in Stock
Washington - Goldman Sachs' chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein was awarded a $9 million bonus for 2009, but in restricted stock that he must hold for five years under …
Lobbyists Retreat but Never Surrender (2)
George Washington's birthday is approaching and with it will come the attendant mythology: hatchet and cherry tree, wooden teeth, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River - or …
John Yoo Renews Claim That President’s Authority to Torture Depends on What Is “Necessary“
Challenged for his 2005 statement that whether the president could lawfully torture a person's child depends on “why the President thinks he needs to do that,” undaunted, John Yoo …
Mediators’ Plan a Road Map to Afghanistan Peace?
If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a “road map” to a political settlement drawn up by …
The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism
On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a …
Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry of the Offensive
Environmental NGO's have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they're generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the …