Apr 04 2011
Crossing Zero: The AfPak War At the Turning Point of American Empire
Two U.S. soldiers were shot dead this morning in Afghanistan by an Afghan border policeman. They were providing security for American trainers in the northern Faryab province. The shooting came on the heels of three days of anti-American protests that have claimed 24 lives. The protests were sparked by news of American fundamentalist Christian pastor Terry Jones, burning a …
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At the National Governor’s Association meeting last month President Obama issued a challenge. Responding to attacks on last year’s health care reform legislation he said, “If your state can create a plan that covers as many people as affordably and comprehensively as the Affordable Care Act does — without increasing the deficit — you can implement that plan.” The President …
While all other countries outside the U.S. prohibit themselves from imprisoning youth for life, many states including California have no problem locking minors up until they die. Nation wide there are more than 2,500 people locked up who were convicted of crimes under the age of 18 and will never experience freedom. California imprisons more than a tenth …
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on Beck’s Honor Rally.
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Students at the University of Southern California have been grappling with a campus scandal ignited by a highly controversial, misogynistic email. The sexist treatise was apparently circulated within the USC Greek community before being leaked in early March to the feminist website Jezebel. In the email an anonymous male writer addresses his frat brothers in the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He …
Just two weeks from tax day, many Americans are struggling to navigate IRS paperwork and dreading the possibility of having to pay additional taxes. But corporate persons like GE, Bank of America, and others, have no such worries. In fact both GE and Bank of America paid zero dollars in corporate taxes in 2010. They accomplish this by hiring …
