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Canada Extends Mission in Afghanistan
Toronto, Canada - The Canadian government has backed away from a decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan next year. Few are surprised, and many are outraged. For months, …
The Silent Truth Documentary aka The LaVena Johnson Murder Cover-Up
Wednesday, November 10th, the day before Veteran's Day—a new documentary on veterans, made its national debut in St. Louis. Veterans For Peace, a group pledging to expose..."THE TRUE COST …
Could Nonviolent Resistance Defeat Petraeus’s Night Raids in Afghanistan?
Pop quiz on the news: who said this week, referring to the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US military commander David Petraeus over US Special Forces "night …
Israel Approves Withdrawal From Ghajar, Flashpoint Village on Lebanese Border
Wazzani, Lebanon - Israel's cabinet on Wednesday approved a United Nations proposal to withdraw Israeli troops from the divided village of Ghajar, which straddles the UN-policed boundary between Lebanon …
Keith Olbermann | False Promise of “Objectivity” Proves “Truth” Superior to “Fact“
Keith Olbermann's “Special Comment” from Monday. Transcript follows the video.
They Said They Would Push Me “Off a Cliff“
Yesterday, on the TV and radio show “Democracy Now” hosted by Amy Goodman, the former Vice President of CIGNA, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies, revealed that …
What Voters Really Care, and Don’t Care, About
I stopped watching the Nov. 3 postelection press conference after President Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats at the polls in part because “we were in such a hurry …
“Birthright Citizenship” Will Be Target of House GOP Majority
Washington - As one of its first acts, the new Congress will consider denying citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States. Those …
The US Social Forum and Money: Building a Transformative National Movement
More than 15,000 social movement organizers assembled in Detroit this June for the US Social Forum. Even more so than its predecessor, three years ago in Atlanta, this forum …
Rock-Paper-Scissors
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett was the winner of the 2007 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, and was a finalist for the 2008 …