Le Café Politique De Camus De Café: Gardasil And... - Any Questi. Time to Repeal the Health Insurance Industry's Antitrus. Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit. The Pentagon's spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had been collecting information on American anti-war activists.
The Defense Intelligence Agency filed notice this week that it plans to create a new section called Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operation Records, whose purpose will be to "document intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counternarcotic operations relating to the protection of national security. " G20: Is state debt the great threat? Dean Baker: Most G-20 leaders are pushing the same policies that led the world into the Great Depression - Bio Dean Baker is co-director of The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
He is the author of several books including, The United States Since 1980; Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot); and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He appears frequently on TV and radio programs, including CNN, CBS News, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio. Natural Gas Drilling. On this beautiful Tuesday afternoon in June 2010, I sat with my son to watch 'Gasland' by Josh Fox.
TAC TV » Return of the Real Right. On an episode of MSNBC’s “Hardball” in April, host Chris Matthews excoriated politicians who attempt to run as independents, using consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential bid as an example of how third parties muck up the two party system.
Disgusted, Matthews concluded that “third parties suck!” Not long after that diatribe, when Florida governor and current candidate for US Senate Charlie Crist left the Republican Party due to the surging popularity of a Tea Party-anointed challenger, Matthews did not criticize Crist’s decision to run third party, but he did bash the GOP half of his formerly beloved two party system. Remarked Matthews, “What happens to Republicans who don’t march to the right wing tune? Well they’re getting purged. This is Stalinesque, this stuff.” Norquist Unfazed By Religious Right Outrage. ISRAEL: Palestinians fear Israeli court ruling may set new groun. There’s a growing worry among Palestinians that an Israeli Supreme Court decision Sunday will make it easier for Israel to deport Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem because of their participation in the Palestinian Authority.
The court upheld a move by Israeli police ordering three members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which functions as the Palestinian Authority’s parliament, and a former member of the Palestinian Cabinet to leave the city within a month of the order. The Culprits. Neoliberal and “Israel Firster”, Joe Lieberman, Wants the US to. Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on "Terror Support" Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER): ANSWER Coalition respondsto President Obama's speech on Iraq.
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* ANSWER Coalition Interview onBreaking News on Afghanistan The Obama administration and the Pentagon know that they have lost the war in Afghanistan. Yet they are still sending tens of thousands more soldiers and marines to kill and be killed. On Faith Panelists Blog: Anti-religious anger online - David Wol. War on Public Workers. Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.
Conservatives have declared a new class war, but it's not on bankers earning seven-figure bonuses. Saul Friedman: Libertarians: The Paranoid Style In American Poli. BP CEO Tony Hayward Has Defenders. "Obama's 20 Billion slush fund"- okay right. New PFAW Poll Shows Americans Want Action to Correct Citizens Un. Results Show Broad Support for Candidates Who Support A Constitutional Amendment to Overturn the Decision Results of a poll conducted by Hart Research Associates for People For the American Way revealed that Americans across the political spectrum are intensely concerned about corporate influence in our democracy and disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v.
Texas Textbooks: What happened, what it means, and what we can d. Table of Contents Introduction Religious Right leaders in Texas have been waging war against science and history for the past few decades.
Why Are GOP Officials Embracing Extremists at Upcoming ‘How to T. Table of Contents Introduction.
Sessions: Republicans Might Boycott Kagan Hearings - Political P. Jun 22, 2010 8:43am ABC News’ Ariane de Vogue reports: Last night, Sen. Oral Argument in Acorn v. U.S.A.-New York, NY. Date: June 24, 2010 Location: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit500 Pearl Street 9th Floor, Ceremonial CourtroomNew York, NY, 10007 Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) June 24, 2010 to take a stand against Congress' unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). This would have never happened to Dick Cheney. Obama's Afghanistan reality check.
William Swenson, Afghan war veteran, awarded Medal of Honor by President Obama A former Army captain received the nation's highest military honor from President Barack Obama for his bravery in one of the most deadly firefights in Afghanistan. William D. Swenson was awarded the Medal of Honor Tuesday for his actions in a lengthy battle against the Taliban in the Ganjgal valley near the Pakistan border on Sept. 8, 2009, which claimed the lives of five Americans, 10 Afghan army troops and an interpreter. At the time, Swenson was an embedded trainer and mentor with the Afghan National Security Forces in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. Fire McChrystal. Obama's real McChrystal problem: Afghanistan plan in trouble - G. Gen. Breaking: General Stanley McChrystal tenders his resignation – T. A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House is actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate.
Poll: Should President Obama Forgive, Fire or Accept a Resignati.