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Where Is Obama’s “Teachable Moment” on Race?
President Obama has not dwelt on race – his own or the history of racism in America. And for all the talk about “teachable moments,” he has not encouraged …
Hugo Chávez Oil Threats: Why Chávez Won’t Cut Off Oil to the US
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to cut off oil to the US on Sunday. The latest Chávez oil threat comes amid a rising diplomatic spat with neighboring Colombia, a …
Eugene Robinson | This Was All Secret?
Washington - The tens of thousands of classified military documents posted on the Internet Sunday confirm what critics of the war in Afghanistan already knew or suspected: We are …
BP Response Crew Faces “Catastrophic” Conditions
BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly. "Yesterday was …
Rep. Ryan Pushes Ominous “Roadmap for America’s Future“
In an apparent attempt to gain some semblance of support for the only definitive and substantive Republican budget plan, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) has turned to a series of …
Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly, Deceitful March of Folly
The brutality and fecklessness of the US-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote …
All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
Have you ever thought about just how strange this country's version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story …
BP’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy: The Well’s Corked, but Public and Government Are Left in the Dark
Prof. Bob Bea, of UC Berkeley, a civil engineer with years of expertise in marine oil drilling, says he is concerned that during the current crisis of BP’s blown-out …
WikiLeaks Founder Assange Press Conference (VIDEO)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave a press conference at the Frontline Club in London Monday to address the publication of classified documents from the US government. The video is …
Don’t Let Dirty Drilling Frack Up New York’s Clean Water
Everyone is talking about Natural Gas, our newest greenest most homegrown and secure source of American Energy.... NOT! “Clean” "Natural" Gas is neither.