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UN Envoy Says Afghan Strategy Is “Too Military-Driven“
Kabul, Afghanistan - Hours before boarding a flight out of Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide delivered a final warning Saturday as he wrapped up his two-year tenure as the …
US Criticized Over Soaring Housing Costs
United Nations - On Friday, the richest and most powerful country on earth was the subject of a damning report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. …
Education Day of Action Rippled Through California and Beyond
Walkouts, student strikes, and marches shook every level of California's embattled public education system on March 4. University of California students blocked access to campus entrances at Berkeley and …
Kucinich Forces Congress to Debate Afghanistan
On Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced H. Com Res. 248, a privileged resolution with 16 original cosponsors that will require the House of Representatives to debate whether to …
Life in the Gazan “Buffer Zone“
When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able …
On Languages of Power and Powerlessness
The disciplining force of society is at its most effective when its human origins are denied or covered up.
Falling Into the Ditch
Washington Post headline, February 18, 2010: “Lawmakers to launch bipartisan effort to rewrite No Child Left Behind.” Reading that headline, teachers familiar with the King James Bible are likely …
Explosions Shake Baghdad as Iraqis Vote
Baghdad - Dozens of explosions ripped through Baghdad and provinces to the north and west as Iraqis voted Sunday in parliamentary elections, killing at least 34 people and wounding …
David Sirota | The Senate’s Lesson About Democracy
When you look past the craziness, chaos and confusion of politics these days, you still find roughly two major schools of thought that aim to explain What's Fundamentally Wrong.
Bad Job Numbers Make it Harder to Pass Health Reform
The loss of 36,000 jobs in February is better than expected but it’s still miserable. 26,000 were lost in January, according to the government’s revised figures. And the “underemployment” …