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Albie Sachs lost an arm and half his eyesight and lived in exile for years, but he never lost his vision for a just and equitable society in South Africa.
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.
Martin Webster was arrested after he filmed fellow soldiers beating up Iraqis. A new film reveals how he went from being "designed to kill" to saving his humanity.
According to a spate of recent articles, a new sexual conservatism is on the rise. But is it really that simple?
Backtracking on accusations of being forced to resign House seat, former Rep. Eric Massa frustrated Glenn Beck in an interview that promised dirt on Dems but delivered none.
In the battle over whether or not the “tea party tent†will include hardliner opponents of immigration and immigration reform, the rhetoric is heating up.
Kucinich: Insurance industry gets $70 billion dollars a year, forces people to buy private insurance, locks in five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases.
Marjah isn't even a town, but rather one of the clearest and most dramatic examples of a war of perception as outlined in the US's counter-insurgency doctrine.
This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
Hotline has a helpful whip count on House members’ position on health care reform. The math sure looks complicated. We have a lot of scaredy-cat Democrats and not a
You can’t but help admire Tom Friedman’s enthusiasm for technological innovations. The NY Times columnist and mega-bestselling author has probably interviewed more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs about high tec
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The new “It Word” is Graymailing. It’s like Blackmailing, except for what you do is you release soundbytes into the memesphere — that clearly lead to something quite a bit more incriminating — in orde
“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinan
With the U.S. being drawn into Yemeni affairs along with a Saudi declaration of victory, reports of the war against the Houthis have become more scarce than ever.
For what is available, the Houthi rebels proposed peace
Our right wing extremist Danish Cartoonist originally hit the headlines in 2006 with his cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a manner highly offensive to Muslims.
Now he’s at it again. This time with a quic
It does seem rather shocking to me that the state of Virginia, infamous HQ of Langley and the trumped up Global War on Terror in general, would have gone so far as to charge two Blackwater/Xe mercenaries of second-degree
I’ve been looking around for a succinct summary of The Yemen Strategy and, thank you MK, here it is!
Most important, however, for US global strategies will be the massive gain of control of the port of Aden in
Professor Willem Buiter, former Monetary Policy Committee member, has warned of a coming collapse of the U.S. dollar in the near future. As global governments dump the currency, more pressures are bound to rise for the U.
On January 6th, a suicide bomber drove into a police station in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, killing five officers in the early morning hours.
A day later, two militants were killed in a gun battle on the outsk
We’ve all undoubtedly heard about the 8 ‘CIA Agents’ killed recently in a bombing at a CIA Center of Operations and Surveillance on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
So far Washington has only
Michael Yon, former Green Beret and alternative journalist, was recently arrested and interrogated by TSA workers at the Seattle Airport. This incident occurred after Yon refused to answer personal questions, mostly relat
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Today the Funny or Die crew took the fight for financial reform to a knew level, tapping the talents of reality TV star Heidi Montag who delivers the message that "with hidden fees and standard interest rate increases, that $11,00
Nutrition experts are battling sugar industry trade groups over over public information about the health hazards of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and other caloric sweeteners. Nutrition experts say that the sweeteners add
The U.S. media told the public for weeks that a big, offensive battle was taking place in Marja, in Afghanistan, a "city of 80,000 people" in Helmand province which was also the logistical hub of the Taliban. The description gave
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is growing its bank account and jumping into grassroots lobbying game now since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for corporations to spend unlimited money on elections. The Chamber spent more th
In the 1950s, more than half the U.S. population smoked. Now that number is down to just 21 percent of adults. As the domestic cigarette market shrinks, tobacco companies are taking their business to the developing world, where th
As President Obama moves ahead with health care reform, interest groups on both sides of the issue are again ramping up their lobbying efforts. Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry's top lo
Watching the devolution of the bank reform bill in the U.S. Senate has been painful. Banking Chairman Chris Dodd’s original proposal unveiled last year had numerous strengths, most significantly the removal of bank supervisory a
Depiction of Obama in RNC presentationA confidential Republican National Committee (RNC)
PowerPoint presentation about fundraising strategies titled "Tools for Success" discusses raising money for the 2010 election cycle by capita
Republicans and conservative news media outlets like Fox News keep repeating the error made by newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, when he mistakenly called the Senate process of reconciliation "the nuclear option." T
The pro-health care reform group Health Care for America Now has released a study (pdf) that contradicts insurance companies' claims that their recent, exorbitant rate hikes were driven by increases in the cost of medical care. Th
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Students in Sussex and Westminster occupy their Vice Chancellor Executive Group Offices in demonstration against proposed cuts
Prominent member of the National Popular Resistance Front shot dead in her home in Honduras
Hunt monitor Bryan Griffiths facing manslaughter charge following accidental death of huntsman.
Foreign workers unite in solidarity strikes
Judge allows war crimes defence in EDO Decommissioners' trial
Migrant solidarity soldiers on in Calais
Mass protest against the UK Border Agency in Cardiff
Nottingham Heckler & Koch anti-arms trade blockaders get harsh bail conditions
Baby bummer as sold-out ageing hippies turn into the Man, man, on bums at Haight Ashbury
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