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European Airlines Silence Palestine Protest
Jerusalem - As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the 'Welcome to Palestine' fly-in …

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White House Opens Door to Big Donors, and Lobbyists Come In
Last May, as a battle was heating up between Internet companies and Hollywood over how to stop online piracy, a top entertainment industry lobbyist landed a meeting at the …

Attacks Hit US Embassy, Government Offices in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan — Insurgents took over a high-rise building on Sunday and began firing rocket propelled grenades and assault weapons at government buildings and towards the U.S. Embassy. The …

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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political InjusticeÂ
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)The consequences of America's racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights …

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After “Constructive” Talks on Iran Nuclear Program, Hopes Rise for Diplomacy
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times)Istanbul, Turkey - Major world powers Saturday said their first meeting with Iran in over a year took …

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Romney Assures NRA of Support for Gun Rights
Mitt Romney. (Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)St. Louis - As he seeks to inspire the conservative base ahead of the general election, Mitt Romney spoke to the National …

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Murder of a Nobody
Kevin Sibbitt, a 911 Dispatcher, listens to a call. (Photo: JBLM PAO / Flickr)Victim on Lot 5 Diane Clemmons Belton was a nobody. For a time, years ago, after …

Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, and Benefits Access a Struggle, for Veterans of Falklands/Malvinas War
The battle for the British-controlled Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina continues to kill, even 30 years after Argentine troops landed there on April 2, 1982. The struggle …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Court Rules in Favor of Allowing Political Ads on Public Television, and More
In today's On the News segment: Multinational firms' tax loopholes are hurting small businesses, freak wildfires are resulting from our unseasonably warm spring weather, Pakistan demands end to US …

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Save Our Clinics: Chicago Activists Occupy to Save Mental Health Services
Occupy Chicago activists link arms to form a human chain outside the occupied Woodlawn Clinic on the night of Thursday, April 12 2012. (Photo: Marcus Demery / Flickr)In the …