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Arizona Passes Restrictive Immigration Bill
A bill approved Tuesday by Arizona lawmakers may be one of the most restrictive pieces of state-level immigration enforcement legislation in the country, making it illegal to be in …

Happy Tax Day: Are Americans Getting Our Money’s Worth?
Most Americans seem to regard April 15 - the day income tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service - as a recurring tragedy akin to a Biblical …

US Foreign Policy: Sixty Years of Disaster
On August 19, 1953, pro-Shah supporters in Iran staged a coup on the Iranian government that was planned, organized and supported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) …

Prison-Based Gerrymandering Creates Phantom Voters
Anyone who is in prison on the first of April, 2010, will remain there for the next ten years - according to the US census. When the census counts …

McChrystal Backtracks on Troop Veto for Kandahar Shuras
The U.S. military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek the consent of local shuras, or consultative conferences with those elders, to carry out …

News in Brief (2)
The Washington Post reports that a plume of volcanic ash from Iceland hovering over Northern Europe severely disrupted air travel for hundreds of thousands of airline passengers today as …

The “Other” Terrorism: Militarism and Violence Against Women
Since beginning the Feminist Peace Network in 2001, I have written and spoken about militarism and violence against women more times than I can count. In those years I …

Feel Safer Now?
I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They're carried by InterPress News Service. I've been doing this for a very long time, so I'm usually able to separate …

America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai
At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined.

US Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan
US officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by US Special Forces accompanied by Afghan …