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The Intersectionist: Sy Montgomery’s “Birdology“
“Birdology: Adventures With a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur” By Sy …
What Would “Another Haiti” Look Like? Haitian Views on Their Country’s Future
A slogan of Haiti's popular movement - a grouping of many organized sectors, from community-based journalists, to cooperative street vendors, to children's rights advocates - is "Another Haiti Is …
Banksters, Corrupt Politicians Face Prosecution – in Iceland
Calls for constitutional reform follow investigation into financial collapse; bankers, former government ministers face possibility of jail time. Last month, the publication of an Icelandic Parliamentary report commissioned "to …
E.J. Dionne | White House Comments on Lincoln Victory Sets Off Firestorm With Labor
Washington - This week's primaries should have been good news for Democrats. Instead, a stray comment from an Obama aide briefly threatened a civil war in the Democratic Party, …
Joe Conason | Why We Can’t Just “Look Forward“
Torture is no longer a pressing concern for the American public, if it ever was. The country's attention has understandably turned to lost jobs, costly health care and spilled …
CYA for the CIA: The CIA’s Torture Research Program
Over the last year, there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” torture program, there was a related program experimenting with …
Feds Knew of Gulf Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows
Washington - A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and …
I Come to Praise Helen Thomas, Not to Bury Her
I am not going to try and defend the comments Helen Thomas made about getting the Jews out of Palestine and sending them to Germany and Poland; that was …
Primary Results Show Battle Ahead for Incumbents
In the primary results Wednesday, three high-profile legislator bypassed the predicted anti-incumbent rage in what may mark a turning point in the midterm campaign season. On the Republican …
Congress Calls BP’s Hayward to Testify
Fifty-one days after oil began gushing out of the ocean floor and into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress has extended a request that, in political parlance, is more of …