AMY GOODMAN: The House is set to vote tomorrow on the $500 billion 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Unveiled on Sunday, the measure covers budgets for all cabinet departments except the Pentagon. It’s expected to pass both houses of...
17 December 2007
America’s suicide bombers don’t use bombs and don’t seem to have a cause larger than their own angst, but they’re as lethal as any misguided political fanatic and they beg a question as urgent as any the human race has faced.
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16 December 2007
FISA Call to Action
Dear Friend:
The Senate will soon consider legislation addressing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). I emailed you about this issue recently responding to inaccuracies in the...
Dear Friend:
The Senate will soon consider legislation addressing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). I emailed you about this issue recently responding to inaccuracies in the...
14 December 2007
Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning that a $1.9 million official study shows that "critical security failures" are embedded throughout the voting systems in the state that decided the 2004 election. Those failures, she says...
14 December 2007
Congress stands at the brink of the global-warmed nuclear powered abyss. Again.
In a victory for green power, a massive grassroots/internet campaign forced removal from the national Energy Bill of blank check loan guarantees...
In a victory for green power, a massive grassroots/internet campaign forced removal from the national Energy Bill of blank check loan guarantees...
14 December 2007
The chances are slim that you saw much news coverage of Human Rights
Day when it blew past the media radar -- as usual -- on Dec. 10.
Human rights may be touted as a treasured principle in the United
States, but the assessed value in...
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