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Taliban groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday staged simultaneous attacks in both countries killing at least 100 people. A women’s clothing market was targeted in Peshawar, while across the border, UN officials were attacked in their hotels in Kabul. The Pakistan attacks came just hours after US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in the nation. While Taliban groups …

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Time Magazine is reporting that there “was little surprise among Afghanistan experts” at the recent New York Times report claiming that Afghan President Karzai’s brother is on the CIA payroll. It has been referred to in Afghanistan as an “open secret.” Now some members of Congress are asserting that the Central Intelligence Agency may have lied to them at …

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Several weeks ago, in response to a major campaign by conservative groups and Fox News against the community group ACORN, Congress voted to temporarily stop federal funding. The ban on funding expires this Saturday, October 31st, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and its supporters are calling on the government not to renew the ban. …

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The Execution of Leon Czolgosz

Back in the day on October 29th, 1901, Leon Czolgosz was executed by the electric chair for the murder of President William McKinley. The self-proclaimed anarchist assassin had wrapped a .32 caliber revolver in a handkerchief on September 6th, 1901 as he waited for his target. President McKinley was receiving greeters at the …

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In a press conference on Monday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced proposed health care legislation that included a public option. Ending weeks of speculation, the Democrat from Nevada explained his decision this week by stating, “I believe that a public option can achieve the goal of bringing meaningful reform to our broken system.” Immediately after the …

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When the Disney company made claims years ago that its line of Baby Einstein videos would make infants and toddlers smarter, parents lined up to buy them. The marketing of the DVDs implied that they were educational despite no evidence to support it. In fact today pediatricians recommend absolutely no television for children under the age of 2. In …

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The multiple award winning independent feature film, Skin, directed by Anthony Fabian, tells the real-life story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman with dark skin and black curly hair, born to white Afrikaner parents in Apartheid South Africa, unaware of their own black ancestry. Skin is a reflection on the devastation of institutional racism exemplified by South …

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The Death of Camilo Cienfuegos

Back in the day on October 28th, 1959, Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos mysteriously died. The long bearded swashbuckler boarded an airplane flying from Camaguey to Havana fifty years ago when it disappeared over the ocean at night. The Cuban government immediately organized a massive search lasting days, but could not recover debris from …

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After days of discussion and controversy, Iran is expected to accept an amended deal to transfer most of its nuclear material outside the country to be transformed into fuel for a peaceful medical reactor. The move was reported by state television only days after the IAEA had set a deadline last Friday. Iranian leaders had told agency chief Mohamed …

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United Teachers of Los Angeles has announced it is considering legal action against the recent LA Unified School District’s “Schools Choice Plan”. Through a bidding process, the plan will put 300 schools under new contracts with private or public entities. Potentially all 300 schools could be turned into charter schools. LAUSD says it is finally taking the bold action …

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