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News Overview: Obama Selects Sharp Tongue for Deficit-Cutting Panel
Obama Lines Up Deficit Commission
Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek
Dick Cheney is a sadist. On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' “This Week,” Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration …
Jim Hightower | Greed Trophy Up for Grabs
By gollies, the top executives of health insurance corporations are not giving up without a fight! To paraphrase every high school football coach who ever lived, "When the going …
Obama’s Chance to Be Next FDR or Reagan Fading Fast
Washington - President Barack Obama's dream of being a historically transformational figure like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan may be slipping from his grasp. To be sure, he's …
Congress Told DoD Data on Sexual Assault and Rape in Military Is “Lacking in Accuracy, Reliability and Validity“
A Department of Defense (DoD) Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military told a Congressional committee on February 3, 2010, "DoD's procedures for collecting and documenting data about …
Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence
In mid-December 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico’s handling of the cases of three women who had been murdered in the Mexican border city of Ciudad …
Deb Price | Openness Driving Nation Forward
What's the difference between “homosexuals” and “gay men and lesbians”? Turns out a lot — a whopping 14 percentage points of support, a New York Times-CBS News poll released …
The Real Roots of the CIA’s Rendition and Black Sites Program
On Tuesday, February 10, the British High Court finally released a “seven-paragraph court document showing that MI5 officers were involved in the ill-treatment of a British resident, Binyam Mohamed.” …
Conversation With Daniel Ellsberg: Evaluating Obama So Far
Daniel Ellsberg is definitely a name out of our national past. Baby Boomers immediately conjure up images of the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers. For the younger set, …
Frida Berrigan | America’s Global Weapons Monopoly: Don’t Call it “the Global Arms Trade“
On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, …