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America as a Free Fire Zone
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Second Amendment …

You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes
Today, hundreds of thousands of people comprising a Main Street Movement — a coalition of students, the retired, union workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans — are …

Gates Warns Against More Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan
West Point, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to …

Rallies for Labor, in Wisconsin and Beyond
Madison, Wis. - With booming chants of “This will not stand!” at least 70,000 demonstrators flooded the square around the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday in what the authorities here …

Defections Further Isolate Qaddafi; Security Council Approves Sanctions
Benghazi, Libya - Moammar Qaddafi found himself on the weekend even more isolated in his last major stronghold of Tripoli, as a former top aide declared he was forming …

Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Is a Terrorist
Pakistani and Indian newspapers are reporting that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the execution-slayings of two young men believed to by …

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UK Guardian Reports Raymond Davis is Working for the CIA
A report in the British Guardian newspaper is confirming that Raymond Davis, the man jailed in Lahore, Pakistan charged with murdering two young Pakistanis who were almost certainly themselves working for …

Wisconsin: Health Care, Democracy and the Middle Class Are at Stake
“Mom’s in intensive care. Mom says: Go to Madison.” Such was the conversation with my sister last week as demonstrations erupted across Wisconsin to stop Governor Walker’s union-busting, …

Democracy? Not So Fast: Address Culture of Police Brutality
Hey, I'm about the last guy in the world to rain on Egypt's parade. I love the place - I used to live there. Its people are kind, smart, …

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Qaddafi, Bush and the Iraq Big Lie
While the US government expresses outrage over the brutality of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi toward his own people, we’re missing a complex but significant wrinkle that ties Qaddafi to America’s …