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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
- 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
- Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson
- Policy Battle Over Afghan Peace Talks Intensifies
- Supporting the War Instead of the Troops
- Monday: 16 Iraqis Killed, 43 Wounded
- Biden in Israel: Tiff or Tipping Point?
The Raw Story
- 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 […]
- Riots erupt across Jerusalem as Hamas leader calls for renewed ‘intifada’JERUSALEM (AFP) – Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem on Tuesday in the worst rioting in years, as a senior Hamas leader called for a new "intifada" or uprising. As the unrest rocked Jerusalem, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell delayed a visit to the region amid the worst diplomatic spat [...] […]
- Afghanistan issues blanket pardons for war crimesKABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan confirmed for the first time publicly on Tuesday that it had enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001. Human rights groups have expressed dismay that the law appeared to have been enacted quietly, granting blanket immunity to members of all armed factions [...] […]
- Holder: Osama bin Laden will never be taken aliveWASHINGTON (AFP) – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. During a heated exchange with Republican congressmen, Holder predicted that "we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden" rather than [...] […]
- In Baton Rouge, more allegations of police misconduct after Hurricane KatrinaYesterday, the Baton Rouge Advocate published a damning exposé detailing allegations of misconduct by Baton Rouge police officers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After a four-year legal battle, the paper finally got a cache of police department documents describing a pattern of racist and abusive behavior by Baton Rouge officers in the days after the […]
- Loud sex enough for cops to search your home, court rulesFor Brian McGacken of Farmingdale, New Jersey, an evening of loud sex resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for growing marijuana. On Feb. 17, 2007, New Jersey state troopers arrived at McGacken's home, responding to an anonymous 911 call complaining of screams coming from McGacken's home. McGacken explained the noise was a bout of loud sex; [...] […]
- Bill Clinton: Health reform will passWASHINGTON -- Former president Bill Clinton predicted Tuesday that President Barack Obama's signature health overhaul will become law even as fellow Democrats in the US Congress hunted for critical, elusive votes. "I just want it to pass, and I think it will," he told reporters during a rare visit to the US Capitol for closed-door [...] […]
- Petraeus: ‘Time has come’ to rethink ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’General David Petraeus, who as head of US Central Command runs the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has added his voice to a growing number of senior military leaders who have voiced support for an overhaul of the US military's policy on gays. At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Petraeus told [...] […]
- Suspicion over Murdoch’s pan-Arab foray in EgyptCAIRO -- The tie-up between Arab entertainment giant Rotana and pro-Israel media mogul Rupert Murdoch is viewed in Egypt not only with suspicion but as signalling the decline of Arab film and art heritage. In a country where film and television attract some of the largest audiences across the Arab world, the tycoon's foray into the [...] […]
