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US News
  • Khalil Abdullah , New America Media

    Today, on Juneteenth, a date steeped in the rich symbolism of freedom for African Americans, community organization ACORN  intends to raise the banner of comprehensive immigration reform by announcing the launch of The Black Leadership Immigration  Project from the pulpit of a Phoenix, Ariz., church. ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, who... » read this article
  • Sarah Lazare , Courage to Resist

    At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, AWOL soldiers find themselves detained for months under difficult conditions in an extended  legal limbo they cannot escape. Dustin Stevens is one of about 50 soldiers being held at Fort Bragg awaiting likely AWOL and desertion charges that seem like they will never arrive, he... » read this article
  • Nick Spicer , Al Jazeera

    As the US recession shows no sign of easing, the nation's criminal justice system is also beginning to buckle under severe financial and logistical strains. The US constitution and a landmark supreme court decision in 1963, ensure that all citizens have the right to "due process" and to a government-paid... » read this article
  • Fred Goldstein , Workers World

    While talk about signs of a possible economic recovery drove the stock market up for four weeks in a row, beginning March 10, it is clear that the recovery being talked about was a recovery of the bosses and bankers, not the workers. Three quarters of a million workers lost... » read this article
  • Amanda Calder , Socialist Worker

    After weeks of mobilizing supporters putting intense pressure on state politicians, equal-marriage activists celebrated in Vermont on April 7, after legislators overrode Republican Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. This makes Vermont the fourth state to recognize same-sex marriage. Mark Leach, a member of the University... » read this article
  • Safiya Boucaud , The Jurist Legal News and Research

    The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] denied certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal v. BeardMumia Abu-Jamal [advocacy website, Philadelphia Inquirer backgrounder], sentenced to death for killing a police officer in Philadelphia in  1981. [docket]. The Court offered  no explanation for their refusal... » read this article
  • Monica Davey , New York Times

    Same-sex couples will be allowed to marry in Iowa by month’s end, after a ruling on  Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court that found unconstitutional a state law limiting  marriage to a man and a woman. The unanimous decision moved the heated battle over same-sex marriage beyond the East  and... » read this article
  • Michael Isikoff , Newsweek.com

    A fierce internal battle within the White House over the disclosure of internal  Justice Department interrogation memos is shaping up as a major test of the Obama  administration's commitment to opening up government files about Bush-era  counterterrorism policy. As reported by NEWSWEEK, the White House last month had accepted a... » read this article
  • Jeff Nall , Toward Freedom

    On Saturday, March 21, 2009 the anti-war movement held its first national  mobilization against U.S. militarism since the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama.  Marking the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war, about 10,000 people participated in  the March on the Pentagon, organized by the ANSWER Coalition. While there were  radical... » read this article
  • News Bulletin , Binghamton Press and Sun

    Thirteen people have been reported dead in this morning's shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton. At least five people have been taken to Wilson Regional Medical Center in Johnson City, one in critical condition, two listed as serious. Another person was taken to Lourdes Hospital in Johnson City.... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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