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Measure to Legalize Marijuana Trails in California, if Polls Are Right
Los Angeles - If this is Friday, California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana use for adults must be ... losing? That, indeed, is the result of the latest poll …
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Warming Arctic Unlikely to Return to How It Was
Washington — New observations this year about snow, ice and temperatures support the conclusion that the Arctic is unlikely to return to the conditions known in the 20th century …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Scandal of 2010
Washington - Imagine an election in a Third World nation where a small number of millionaires and billionaires spent massive sums to push the outcome in their preferred direction. …
Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do …
The Politicians Who Cried “Crisis“
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a well known Aesop fable that offers a moral about the dangers of lies. While this tale holds a simple but accurate message, …
California Passes Landmark Anti-Human Trafficking Law
Los Angeles, California - Setting the precedent for the rest of the nation and the world, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 657 - authored by Sen. Darrel Steinberg …
Britain’s Budget Cuts – Will the Bell Toll for Us?
This week, the British government announced plans to cut its military personnel by 10 percent, scrap 40 percent of the Army's artillery and tanks and withdraw all of its …
The Long Walk Home: One Barefoot Activist’s Mission to Stop the Veteran Suicide Epidemic
His feet are gnarled and mangled from scorching roads and stubbed toes, with ripped toenails and sores on his soles. Sometimes bandages cover his open wounds, usually caused by …
Revolution, Survival and Poor People’s Human Rights: An Interview With Cheri Honkala
Cheri Honkala is the founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a Philadelphia poor people’s organization that is widely known for its uncompromising civil-disobedience tactics—including housing takeovers, tent …
The Strange Case of Aafia Siddiqui
The world has heard the stories of many Af-Pak women and their distress as victims of Taliban tormentors, which US and NATO drones have done nothing to diminish. This …