Obama, Republicans seek spending cut endgame
© AFP/Getty Images/File Spencer Platt AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama and his Republican foes, spurred on by archconservatives irate over gaping deficits, have…
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Human trafficking: It ain’t just for sex anymore
Dees Illustration Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer Activist Post When we think of human trafficking most of us immediately assume that this occurs only in the…
US embassy outing in Lebanon attacked by stones
A general view shows the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on the outskirts of Sidon © AFP/File Joseph Eid AFP SIDON, Lebanon (AFP) –…
To Serve and Protect … Or Harass and Collect?
Eric Peters Lew Rockwell What good are cops, really? I mean to the average, non-violent citizen just trying to go about his business? For him,…
Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
Arab League/Wikimedia image Pepe Escobar Asia Times You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a…
We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. Census Worker AFP File image Stephen Moore Wall Street…
Obama vs. Dancing With The Stars
Dees Illustration Brandon Turbeville Activist Post If anyone thought the President’s speech defending the attack on Libya was broadcast a bit earlier than other Presidential…
Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?
Ian Fletcher Activist Post If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right…
No surveillance without oversight
Given the FBI’s record of fallibility – and without genuine safeguards for citizens – this $1bn biometrics project is alarming Biometrics/Wikimedia image Jay Stanley Guardian…
Libya’s rag-tag rebels badly need training: US
Editor’s Note: Translation: We need to dedicate more money and more time to this third war front. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and Chairman…
China’s army chief of staff to visit US in May
Chinese Chief of Staff General Chen Bingde © AFP/Pool/File Andy Wong AFP BEIJING (AFP) – China said Thursday its army chief of staff would visit…
Review: Thom Hartmann’s Rebooting the American Dream
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Thom Hartmann is famous as a liberal commentator on the radio, on TV, and in over a dozen books. But he…
Empire — Cracking Up (Charlie McGrath)
YouTube — crabbydogtrix http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-libya-usa-order-idUSTRE72T6H2201… http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/broke-and-getting-broker-22-jaw-dro… http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/defense-secretary-libya-did-n…
US, Britain insert covert agents into Libya: reports
A Libyan rebel walks with a rocket-propelled grenade © AFP Mahmud Hams AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States and Britain have inserted covert intelligence…