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In Haiti, Death Toll Remains a Mystery
The view from the busy two-lane road is spectacular: tall limestone mountains rising to the east and the turquoise Caribbean shimmering to the west. But this is no tourist …
DoD Releases Records of Illegal Surveillance
Defense Department agencies improperly collected and disseminated intelligence on Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group called the National Alliance, an Air Force briefing improperly included intelligence on an …
Senate Votes to Revive Programs After Bunning Relents
Washington - By a vote of 78 to 19, the Senate Tuesday night passed funding to revive government programs that aid jobless people, highway projects and other initiatives that …
Sliding Backwards on Iraq?
Last week, President Obama's out-of-control military brass once again leaked a statement contrary to the president's position. This time the statement came from Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top …
Blackwater’s Migraines Multiply
Legal headaches are growing exponentially for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater - once the darling of the military-industrial community. In separate developments, two former employees of the …
Small Foreign News Staffs Threaten US Democracy
London, United Kingdom - Recently, I sadly said goodbye to former colleagues who were fired in another round of cost cutting by CBS News. The CBS London bureau now …
Malalai Joya Is an Angry Woman
There's no democracy under occupation. Exclusive interview with the young Afghan deputy thrown out of Parliament for having exposed foreign interference in her country. Malalai Joya is an angry …
Can Workers Hope to Be Safe at Last?
It's called musculoskeletal disorder or MSD, the most common of the serious injuries suffered by US workers. But because corporate employers fear that greater public awareness would force them …
The Torture Memo John Yoo Should Have Written
On February 19, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited 261-page Report of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which concluded, among other things, that in his legal memos …
VA Agrees to Take Second Look at Thousands of Gulf War Vets’ Disability Claims
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to re-examine the disability claims for what could turn out to be thousands of veterans of the Gulf War. The development …