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President Put Politics First on Afghanistan
Nothing highlights President Obama’s abject surrender to Gen. David Petraeus on the “way forward” in Afghanistan than two cables U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry sent to Washington on Nov. 6 …

Obama Shifts Priorities to Job Growth, While Calling for an End to Partisan Warfare
President Barack Obama resuscitated a theme that swept him into office a year ago - Hope and Change - in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, …

GRITtv: Senator Sanders on Firing Fed Chairman Bernanke, Economy Fixes (Video)
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has been an outspoken leader in the Senate on everything from the fight for single-payer health care reform to blocking Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s reappointment. …

Excerpts From President Obama’s State of the Union Address
The White House just sent to reporters a preview of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Two-thirds of Obama's speech, according to news reports, will focus exclusively …

Howard Zinn, Historian Who Challenged Status Quo, Dies at 87
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, …

Jim Hightower | The Supreme Coup
Despite 234 years of progress toward the American ideal of equality for all, we still have to battle unfairness. How happy, then, to learn that a handful of our …

Amateur Filmmaker Accused of Entrapping ACORN Employees Arrested by Federal Agents
Federal law enforcement officials on Monday arrested conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and three other men for allegedly attempting to tamper with the phone system in Democratic Sen. Mary …

Dahr Jamail | Soldiers Forced to Choose Between Their Children and the Military Pay the Price in Jail Time
In January, U.S. Army officials announced four separate court-martial charges against Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother who missed her deployment to Afghanistan in early November 2009 when her …

Bill Moyers Journal | Labor’s State of the Union
Bill Moyers Journal PBS Airtime: Friday, January 22, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings).

NOW | On the Ground in Haiti
On the ground in Haiti, working to save the lives of mothers during childbirth. Next on “NOW.”