Now Playing: The EDL Security Show
We’re paying for a high-tech Broadway show that’s themed around ’security’, but we’re actually watching the equivalent of a catastrophic performance in a low budget community theatre. The price of admission? Only millions dollars and your privacy.
Bush Told Journalist in 1999 “I’m Going to Invade Iraq”
Two years before the 9/11 attacks on America, George W. Bush told a Houston journalist if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.”
Atlanta: Community Applauds Dekalb's Delay of Marine School
ATLANTA – A coalition of anti-war activists, students, and parents on Monday, June 01, 2009, applauded the DeKalb County Board of Education for delaying its plans to open the DeKalb Marine Corps Institute.
Honduran President Demands Lifting of US blockade against Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 2 (acn) Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, demanded today an end to the Organization of American States (OAS) sanctions against Cuba, and the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States
DOJ Blocks Discriminatory Voting Practices In Georgia
WASHINGTON – A coalition of voting rights groups and attorneys today praised a decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the use of flawed and racially discriminatory voter registration practices by Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel.
GM: America's Car Company
We all own General Motors now. The US government will provide about $30 billion and the Canadian government will chip in another $9 billion to keep General Motors (GM) afloat through a bankruptcy process that began June 1st.
US Pursues Closer Economic Ties with China
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is making best of his first Beijing visit to pursue a closer economic ties with China. Geithner will spend Monday in a flurry of meetings with China's top economic team, including Vice Premier Wang Qishan and chiefs of commerce, finance, banking and securities.
Justice for Darfuri Women
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today released an important new report on the grim and persistent realities of sexual violence directed against Darfuri women in Darfur and Eastern Chad.
Goodbye, GM
I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.
