- Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.

- Sarah Palin Resigns: Is She Running for President or Fleeing Scandal? Is Sarah Palin gearing up to run for President? Or does she have a more scandalous reason to flee office?

- Can Engaging with a Radical Religion Help Save Progressives from Self-Indulgence? To imagine a just and sustainable world, we need not just a politics but a theology that can help us face our delusional arrogance.

- Why the Left Looks Like a Big Hypocrite in the Sanford Affair Sanford is no more of a moralist than those in the party of Barack and Bill, the party of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act.

- The Pentagon Suspends Military Cooperation with Honduras Well, the Georgia Effect kicked in. They didn’t think it would be so obvious, the silly rabbits. Allegedly it kicked in late Tuesday, the 30th. But everyone’s only just hearing about it now, even though some feeds were

- Jackson civil rights ceremonies set I’ll never forget as a young boy getting the mail from our mailman and seeing this picture on the cover of our issue of Life Magazine. I am happy to see Jackson is having a day to honor Medgar Evers and others fo

- Amnesty accuses Israel of using human shields in Gaza As an editor, it would be hard to choose the best lede for this story. Amnesty International found no evidence that Hamas used any so-called human shield tactics during the assault on Gaza. (So all those mosques and s

- EU ambassadors pull out of Honduras All of the European Union’s ambassadors have left Honduras. We are talking 27 ambassadors. That’s Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hung

- Listen to Radio Liberada, from somewhere in Honduras, after the military coup

- Climate Emergency: Thousands march for Climate Action

- June 2009 Indymedia Newsreal Released

- Massacre in Peru

- Norway : Tjenestemenn ble nektet å snu ryggen til Killengreen Source: NRK Hordaland

- Norway : HK: Leger uten grenser bryter loven Source: HK-Nytt

- Norway : Fellesforbundet for sjøfolk fryktar for tryggleiken på ferjene Source: NRK Sogn og Fjordane

- Norway : Billige skrog - elendige forhold Source: LO Aktuelt

- Trippeldrapsdømt blir TV 2-stjerne TV2 - 19.06.09 ...Veronika Orderud. Blant de øvrige sakene som følges er gjengvolden mot Kadra Yusuf, Ali Farah vs. Erik Schenken og Broken Lorry-saken, betegnet som N

- - Kvinner hadde vært lurere om de brukte sex som middel til konfliktløsning     Dagbladet - 13.06.09 ...deg for. Du beholdt gangsynet når halve Norg

- Smiler igjen etter Sofienbergparken Helgeland Arbeiderblad - 10.06.09 ...Mandag 6. august 2007 ble Ali Farah (37) slått ned i Sofienbergparken...valgte ikke å ta skadde Ali Farah med i ambulansen, etter.

- Den nye svarte mannen     Aftenposten - 29.05.09 ...beskrivelse som trolig mange afrikanske men

- Why Do We Need Health Care Reform? Don't Ask George Will One of the things I hope to do with my blog is to call out misleading statements and statistics, outright lies and illogical assertions by opponents of meaningful health care reform—and to rat out the front groups that insurers

- Public Health Physicians: Philip Morris Drafted FDA Tobacco Law The American Association of Public Health Physicians, (AAPHP), who opposed the new bill giving the U.S. government regulatory authority over cigarettes and other tobacco products, says the bill was essentially written by Philip Mo

- End of the Road for Medialink Medialink Worldwide -- the largest producer of video new releases and audio news releases -- has announced that it has reached an agreement to been taken over by The NewsMarket. The takeover agreement, which will be submitted to a

- Big Business Fights Consumer Protection Key to the Obama administration's proposal for financial industry reform is the establishment of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The proposed agency would "have a broad mandate to cover the spectrum of consumer financial p

- It’s Just Not Cricket The so-called civil war in Sri Lanka may be over with the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, but the suffering continues for the Tamil people. To remind the world of their plight, there have been protests around the world led by Tamil di

- Borderline Insanity The No Borders Camp kicks off at Calais...

- You’re Nicked Sunshine! Last weekend's summer solstice celebration at Stonehenge was subject to heavy policing, including an unmanned surveillance copter drone, helicopter, 300 stop-n-searches and 32 arrests.

- A Turd In The Pool Nazi thugs are arrested for taunting anti-fascist protesters at the BNP's gathering in Blackpool.