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Rejecting Apology, US May Hasten End of Pakistan as Client
Washington - President Barack Obama has sided with U.S. military and Defence Department officials in rejecting a proposal by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for a U.S. apology for …
Fit to Be Killed: Manufacturing Synthetic Sanity on Death Row
(Photo: SearchNet Media / Flickr) The gun smoke had barely cleared - leaving six dead and 13 wounded, including Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who had a hole …
Thirteen Ways to Tax the Rich
(Photo: Justen Eason / Flickr) The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised the slogan of “We are the 99 percent” and coined the catchphrase that articulates the …
$7.7 Trillion to Wall Street – Anything to Keep the Banksters Happy!
The new One Bank of America Center in Charlotte, N.C., April 11, 2011. (Photo: Chris Keane / The New York Times) Do you know who Elizabeth Duke …
OWS “Truth-Force” Obliterates New York Police Department Barricade at Lincoln Center Plaza
Last night, I saw the power of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) at Lincoln Center Plaza, a public space that activists were barricaded by the New York Police Department (NYPD) …
War-Weary Republicans Rebuke Romney on Afghanistan
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) On Wednesday night, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment introduced by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley …
Once Again, War Is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role Is Taboo
On 22 May, 2007, The Guardian UK's front page announced: “Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran …
Pakistan Orders Troops to Return Fire if Attacked on Afghan Border
US soldiers fire a 105mm artillery barrage toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border, at Forward Operating Base Tillman, Afghanistan, October 7, 2011. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / …
He Was 22 … She Was 12 … Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He died in a hospital in …
Occupying Wall Street and Tahrir Square: Feathers of the Same Bird
As images rolled in this week of the Egyptian authorities' assault on protesters in Tahrir Square, observers in the United States could not escape thoughts of the official violence …