Truth News
- Bankergate: Emails Expose Criminal Financial Dictatorship At Work
- Want a job? Try the government
- Obama unveils $2.3 billion for clean energy jobs
- America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels
- A North American Security Perimeter on the Horizon
- Ron Paul On Bringing Transparency To The Federal Reserve
- In 2009, the Federal Reserve Bought 80% of U.S. Debt?!
- China Ends U.S.’s Reign as Largest Auto Market
- China banks eclipse US rivals
- Protests grow over new US travel watchlist
Antiwar
- US-Israel Tensions Continue to Percolate
- Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
- The Panicky Eagle Circles the Dragon
- Making Unneeded Enemies in Somalia
- Israel vs. America: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Tuesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 19 Wounded
- Lawyers, Guns, and Blackwater
- Do We Want Our ‘Government in a Box’?
- US-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
- The Poodle Gets Kicked
The Raw Story
- ‘I’s on Edjukashun’: Colbert mocks Texas school boardThe Texas Board of Education recently made the decision to modify textbooks in a way that teaches students a version of history that's more favorable to conservatives. As one of the largest purchasers of textbooks, Texas has the power to influence curriculum nationwide. Stephen Colbert put it this way: "This battle isn't just about Texas, [... […]
- After months of opposition, Kucinich flips to ‘yes’ on health bill with no public optionUnder intense fire from Democratic leaders and some reform activists, the sole remaining progressive against the health care bill has reluctantly reversed his opposition, bringing his party one crucial vote closer to its passage. "This is not the bill I want to support," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said at a press conference [...] […]
- Dem leader: GOP acting like kids who killed their parentsDemocratic leader notes GOP Whip Cantor backed use of 'deem and pass' measure in past House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) paraphrased an old definition of the Yiddish term "chutzpah" to offer a stinging rebuke to Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Wednesday. In characterizing Republican objections to the Democrats' possible u […]
- Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama ‘birthers’Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here. As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up. "Sometimes we may be dea […]
- Health bill protesters jeer at man with Parkinson’s diseaseThe passion against health care reform has elevated to such a level that protesters on Tuesday mocked an apparent Parkinson's Disease victim, scorning him as a "communist" who is looking for "handouts." Protesters on both ends of the health care debate squared off in competing rallies outside the Columbus, Ohio office of district Rep […]
- Analysts: US may be seeking Israel ‘regime change’The Obama administration's row with Israel over settlements has prompted some analysts to wonder whether it seeks "regime change," a new government that can make peace with the Palestinians. However, the analysts doubt that President Barack Obama's administration, which has made Arab-Israeli peace a national security priority, will achiev […]
- Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Direct […]
- AP: Premiums will rise under Democrats’ health planLast month, President Barack Obama bemoaned double-digit increases in healthcare premiums -- most notably a 39% year-over-year hike by the Blue Cross insurance leviathan Wellpoint in California. Wellpoint is raising premiums by double digits for many customers in 11 states. But according to an analysis by the Associated Press, health insurance premiums will […]
- Postal Service pot seizures up over 400 pct. since 2007: reportThe United States Postal Inspection Service has been pretty busy lately. That's because shipments of marijuana being seized in the mail have dramatically escalated in recent years, up over 400 percent since 2007, according to a new report. There is no better way to ship drugs right now," said San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, speaking to [. […]
- ACLU sues to obtain basic data, legal justification for Predator drone programThe American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit after federal agencies neglected to answer a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents pertaining to the legal basis for the military's Predator drone program. The request specifically seeks information as to how the program is governed, who can be targeted, along with when and where, and […]
