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There's real hope from Haiti - and it's not what you would expect
In the weeks after a disaster like the Haiti-quake, journalists always search for an upbeat twist to the tale. You know it by now – ...
Top 10 Problems With America Assassinating Americans
The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad. Here are 10 problems with ...
What I Have Learned Doing Civil Disobedience for Single Payer
"People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to ...
America's Sorry History with Haiti, Part I
For Part II, click hereWith all the talk of America taking charge of Haiti for a while, it would be prudent for us to take ...
America's Sorry History with Haiti, Part II
The Haitians have a saying in their native créole language: Piti, piti, wazo fe nich li. “Little by little, the bird builds its nest.” Freed ...
Why Is McCain Red Hot On Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
As has been noted by virtually everyone now, John McCain in 2010 is not the John McCain of 2006. And that might be the reason ...
4,000 tears wiped from the face of Haiti
There is a working class, blue-collar bar I visit often in Flint called Jester's. To outsiders it might appear as a rough and tumble place, ...
A Marvelous Victory
The following is an excerpt from Howard Zinn's recent book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress published by City Lights Books.In this world of war and ...
Obama's Secret Prisons
[The research for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.]One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a ...
Think Again: Court Disposes, Media Yawn
You may have heard of the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which has been ...
Alito's 'Not True' Was Out of Line; Court Deserves Obama Smack
In June, 1891 Supreme Court Justice David Brewer was called to New Haven to address the graduates of Yale University. Brewer knew the key to ...
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to ...
Obama's Tiny Jobs Ideas for Main Street, A Big Spending Freeze for Wall Street
President Obama today offered a set of proposals for helping America’s troubled middle class. All are sensible and worthwhile. But none will bring jobs back. ...
The Drone Surge
One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, ...
The woman Democrats need
ON THE day after Tuesday’s electoral loss, the Obama administration brought an unfamiliar face to the White House - Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor ...
Murders at Guantanamo: Exposing the Truth about the 2006 ‘Suicides’
It’s hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month’s Harper’s Magazine (available on the web here), ...
Breaking the Chains of Dependence in Haiti
As news of the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince trickled out on Tuesday evening, the Haitian Diaspora held its collective breath. At 6 a.m. the next ...
Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians?
By the weekend, it was clear that something perverse was going on in Haiti, something savage and bestial in its lack of concern for human ...
The myth of Haiti's lawless streets
As a member of the media covering the tragedy in Haiti, it's with a sense of alarm and astonishment that I've witnessed how some senior ...
Keith Olbermann on "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission"
OLBERMANN: Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the Supreme Court's ruling today in the case titled "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission." On ...
The Senator from Exxon-Mobil? As Supreme Court Throws Open the Floodgates to Unlimited Corporate Money in Campaigns, the Time for Real Reform is Now!
Folks, we have a problem. It's bigger than healthcare, global warming, and the economy because it cuts to the heart of every big issue we ...
Journalist Kim Ives on How Western Domination Has Undermined Haiti’s Ability to Recover from Natural Devastation
AMY GOODMAN: I’m standing here near the airport in Port-au-Prince. I can’t exactly say my feet are firmly planted on the ground, because this morning, ...
Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti
Port-au-Prince – A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, ...
King: ‘Now is the time to make real the promise’
THE GREAT Martin Luther King Jr. address of 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial is remembered as the “I have a dream’’ speech. But King spoke ...
Cindy Sheehan & Others Protest Drones at CIA & Cheney's 1/16
WASHINGTON - January 15 - There is a new peace coalition in town called Peace of the Action. Peace of the Action is the brainchild ...
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