Articles from 'May 2009'
Kansas abortion doctor shot to death at church
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Kansas doctor who was a controversial provider of "late-term" abortions was shot and killed in the foyer of his ...
UN expert: US failing to properly probe war crimes
By Frank JordansGENEVA (AP) — An independent U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes ...
Cancer Care Costs Squeeze Millions of Americans
Millions of Families Struggle to Pay for Care, Even Those with Health Insurance By Joseph Brownstein / ABC Even people who have health insurance can ...
US Violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq Commander Says
By John Byrne / Raw Story The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva ...
Petraeus supports closure of Guantanamo Bay prison
By Greg Bluestein / Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay would purge the U.S. of a symbol used by ...
MoveOn Pushes Back On Gitmo, Torture
By Sam Stein / Huffington Post MoveOn.org made a new push on Friday to persuade members of Congress to support the closure of Gitmo and ...
Single-payer health care: Baucus keeps getting an earful
By Vince Devlin / MissoulianPABLO - Sen. Max Baucus' insistence that consideration of a national single-payer health plan at this point will squander a golden ...
Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium News Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it ...
The Bogus Torture Coverup
By Scott Horton / Daily Beast The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, which President Obama, in ...
Groups urge NBC to pull health care ad
By Chris Frates / Politico Progressive health care reform groups demanded on Thursday that Washington’s NBC television affiliate refuse to air a 30-minute infomercial funded ...
Levin: CIA Torture Documents Cheney Wants Don't Prove Squat
By Greg Sargent / WhoRunsGovThere’s some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy ...
Woman in Air Force killed in Afghanistan
By Henry Cuningham / Fayetteville ObserverSenior Airman Ashton L.M. Goodman, who loved animals and driving big, noisy trucks, was killed by a homemade bomb Tuesday ...
Aggie Air Force Officer Killed in Afghanistan
By Steve Fullhart / KBTXAn Aggie and a long-serving member of the Air Force has died in Afghanistan. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Stratton graduated from Texas ...
Two British troops killed in Afghanistan
(RTTNews) - Britain lost two more of its troops who fought militants in Afghanistan. One soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast near Garmsir ...
Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years
By Tom Curley / Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite ...
Ft. Campbell Training Soldiers After Rash of Suicides
Associated PressFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- Regular duties are suspended for three days at Fort Campbell, which leads the Army in suicides this year, so commanders ...
It's Not About Bill
By Peter Baker / New York Times Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian ...
Iraq car bomb blast kills five, including US soldier
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A roadside car bomb blast targeting a US patrol killed five people, including an American soldier, west of the Iraqi capital on ...
Photos show rape and sex abuse in Iraq jails-paper
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which U.S. President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and ...
Soldiers remember fallen comrades killed 6 years ago
By Michelle Paynter SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - As Memorial Day weekend approaches, it is important to remember what that holiday is all about, to pay ...
Defense contractor pleads guilty in bribery case
By Nedra PicklerWASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. defense contractor has admitted paying a bribe and submitting sham bids to profit from a contract to provide ...
The Silence of MoveOn ...by Tom Hayden
Nation When he met with Obama in February, Jason Ruben, executive director of MoveOn, told the president it was "the moment to go big," then ...
The CIA's History of Deception ...by Melvin A. Goodman
Consortium News "Let me be clear about this," CIA director Leon Panetta told his troops last week, "it was not CIA policy or practice to ...
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
By Jeff Stein / CQ PoliticsA former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency's congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from ...
Report Questions Conventional Wisdom About Iranian Regime
By Walter Pincus / Washington Post"Tehran feels vulnerable, both from outside and from within."That is just one of a handful of intriguing findings in a ...
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