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We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues.
A single belief system can sweep across cultur
According to a new DHS report, 11.8 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States as of January 2007. By January 2009, that number had fallen to 10.8 million.
This post was originally published on Daily Kos.
Those brave members of Congress who believe the biggest problems in health care are government-funded abortions, death panels, and lawsuits might want to take a look at this probl
This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
Wow, Alan Grayson called Sarah Palin a wild Alaskan dingbat while mocking her relentlessly on his website. Some other choice words:
In response to Palin’s attack on
There is war in our backyard that can match the violence anywhere in the world, and that is the Drug War in Mexico.
This post was originally published on Think Progress.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA) has positioned himself as the leader of a state-based movement on the right to invalidate key progressive reforms. Announcing a
As the U.S. tries to pass off security roles to locals, they've cut Afghan police training to six weeks. The decision was prompted by shortages of training camps and instructors.
Fox News staffers who are somehow still convinced they work for a journalism outfit are worried about what Glenn Beck is doing to the Fox News brand, according to Howard Kurtz’ media notes today:
With his celebrity fueled b
By Taylor Harris, Race-Talk contributor
It all started with The Root. The staff constructed a somewhat comical list of black folks they’d like to erase from black history. (Think Flavor Flav, Marion Barry, and The Apprentice’s
MoveOn.org has launched a campaign to raise funds for the progressive primary challengers to House Dems who vote against reform:
Democrats in the House need to know their constituents are watching how they vote on the health care
Guerilla News Network
The new “It Word” is Graymailing. It’s like Blackmailing, except for what you do is you release soundbytes into the memesphere — that clearly lead to something quite a bit more incriminating — in orde
“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinan
With the U.S. being drawn into Yemeni affairs along with a Saudi declaration of victory, reports of the war against the Houthis have become more scarce than ever.
For what is available, the Houthi rebels proposed peace
Our right wing extremist Danish Cartoonist originally hit the headlines in 2006 with his cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a manner highly offensive to Muslims.
Now he’s at it again. This time with a quic
It does seem rather shocking to me that the state of Virginia, infamous HQ of Langley and the trumped up Global War on Terror in general, would have gone so far as to charge two Blackwater/Xe mercenaries of second-degree
I’ve been looking around for a succinct summary of The Yemen Strategy and, thank you MK, here it is!
Most important, however, for US global strategies will be the massive gain of control of the port of Aden in
Professor Willem Buiter, former Monetary Policy Committee member, has warned of a coming collapse of the U.S. dollar in the near future. As global governments dump the currency, more pressures are bound to rise for the U.
On January 6th, a suicide bomber drove into a police station in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, killing five officers in the early morning hours.
A day later, two militants were killed in a gun battle on the outsk
We’ve all undoubtedly heard about the 8 ‘CIA Agents’ killed recently in a bombing at a CIA Center of Operations and Surveillance on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
So far Washington has only
Michael Yon, former Green Beret and alternative journalist, was recently arrested and interrogated by TSA workers at the Seattle Airport. This incident occurred after Yon refused to answer personal questions, mostly relat
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As the year-long fight over health care reform draws to a close, corporations are once again pouring big money into influencing the debate. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already spent $11 million just this month to try and get
After the Supreme Court declared that corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to funding political campaigns, the self-described progressive firm, Murray Hill, Inc., took what it considers the next logical s
Ads for private, for-profit colleges and trade schools like the University of Phoenix, ITT Tech and Corinthian Colleges, Inc., lure students by leading them to believe that after graduation, they will land well-paying jobs that wi
A pro-government television station in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia broadcast a fake, half-hour news report depicting a Russian military invasion of the country, sending fear and panic throughout Georgian citizens. The st
In a straight party-line vote, ten people on the Texas "Board of Education" voted Friday to change history textbooks to advance right-wing ideological positions on historical matters (the five members of the other party
Headlines blared that Senate Banking Chair Chris Dodd was done with dithering, and ready to move ahead with a financial reform package without Republican support. Financial reform groups should be celebrating this as a positive mo
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is a small advocacy group that last fall successfully got the Disney Company to offer full refunds to people who had purchased the company's "Baby Einstein" videos, which were supposed
Financial reform in the Senate is at a critical juncture, as Senate Democrats attempt to achieve a bipartisan bill. Conservative Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) appears to be in the driver’s seat. Corker is an advocate of putting the
As state and local governments consider taxing soda and sugary drinks to raise money and address the national obesity epidemic, manufacturers of sugary drinks -- like countless other industries -- are taking PR cues from the tobac
Today the Funny or Die crew took the fight for financial reform to a new level, tapping the talents of reality TV star Heidi Montag who delivers the message that "with hidden fees and standard interest rate increases, that $11,000
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Sussex students occupy again in response to clampdown
Expense claims of Sussex Uni bosses revealed
Sea Shepherd ends most successful mission yet
Smash Edo activists on trial and Iraqi war anniversary actions
Harmondsworth detainees join hunger strike
British soldier sent down for refusing to serve,
Telford No New Coal campaign moves up a gear
Nationwide actions against Tesco
New Zealand exorcism proceeds fund animal charity