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What Would “Another Haiti” Look Like? Haitian Views on Their Country’s Future
A slogan of Haiti's popular movement - a grouping of many organized sectors, from community-based journalists, to cooperative street vendors, to children's rights advocates - is "Another Haiti Is …
Banksters, Corrupt Politicians Face Prosecution – in Iceland
Calls for constitutional reform follow investigation into financial collapse; bankers, former government ministers face possibility of jail time. Last month, the publication of an Icelandic Parliamentary report commissioned "to …
E.J. Dionne | White House Comments on Lincoln Victory Sets Off Firestorm With Labor
Washington - This week's primaries should have been good news for Democrats. Instead, a stray comment from an Obama aide briefly threatened a civil war in the Democratic Party, …
Joe Conason | Why We Can’t Just “Look Forward“
Torture is no longer a pressing concern for the American public, if it ever was. The country's attention has understandably turned to lost jobs, costly health care and spilled …
CYA for the CIA: The CIA’s Torture Research Program
Over the last year, there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” torture program, there was a related program experimenting with …
Feds Knew of Gulf Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows
Washington - A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and …
I Come to Praise Helen Thomas, Not to Bury Her
I am not going to try and defend the comments Helen Thomas made about getting the Jews out of Palestine and sending them to Germany and Poland; that was …
Primary Results Show Battle Ahead for Incumbents
In the primary results Wednesday, three high-profile legislator bypassed the predicted anti-incumbent rage in what may mark a turning point in the midterm campaign season. On the Republican …
Congress Calls BP’s Hayward to Testify
Fifty-one days after oil began gushing out of the ocean floor and into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress has extended a request that, in political parlance, is more of …
What’s Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
Many advocates of nuclear disarmament felt considerable elation at the election of Barack Obama in 2008. In the previous years, the Bush administration had scrapped the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, …