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Senate Blocks “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal and DREAM Act
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration's effort to end the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy that prevents openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the …
DOJ Probe Reveals FBI Conducted Surveillance on Greenpeace, Antiwar Activists
The Thomas Merton Center, located in a humble storefront in Pittsburgh, is an inviting social justice space where visitors can pick up some pamphlets on non-violent civil disobedience or …
Banning Slaughter
In the early 1970's, I spent two summers slinging pork loins in a Chicago meat-packing factory. Rose Packing Company paid a handful of college students $2.25 an hour to …
With Just 40 Votes, Republicans Block Debate Over Defense Authorization Bill
Moments ago, in a 56-43 vote, Senate Democrats failed to invoke cloture on the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, falling three votes shy of the 60 need to break …
A Peace Movement Victory in Court
"Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America's newfound taste for …
Afghan Election Panel Reports New Evidence of Serious Fraud
KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country's parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in …
Fayiz Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantanamo, Loses His Habeas Petition
For Fayiz al-Kandari, one of the last two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, American justice has always been an oxymoron. Although he has maintained - for nearly nine years - that …
Joshua Holland | How Right-Wing Billionaires and Business Propaganda Got Us Into the Economic Mess of the Century
AlterNet Editor's note: AlterNet is proud to present this excerpt from senior writer Joshua Holland's new book, The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy (And Everything Else the Right …
A Sudden Reversal of Fortunes
Back in May I fulminated about an outlook report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which followed up on its suggestion that the United States Federal …