A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues. | As the Taliban prepares to open a political office in Qatar, the US stalls on releasing Taliban prisoners and a leaked US military report allege...
Dennis Kucinich , D-Ohio. Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., called the hearing "a show trial." "This was a bottom up operation" and the attorney general did not know its details, the committee's ranking Democrat, Elijah Cummings, said after the hearing.
First, I wish to thank Yesh Gvul for establishing this prize. Then I would like to thank the distinguished jury, who were so gracious as to award the prize to me and to Hagit Ofran, the granddaughter of Prof. Leibowitz, whose work in monitoring the settlements I have admired for years. And then I want to thank all of you for coming to this ceremony.
That was then. This is now. Now Brown is facing the normal cyclical election for his seat and his probable opponent will be the irrepressible, passionate, articulate, down-to-earth, almost irresistible Elizabeth Warren, the woman charged with creating the mechanisms of the financial reform bill and whose appointment to head the new consumer protection bureau was blocked by Brown and his fellow Republicans. Warren is determined to restore...
As we€™ve seen with the Romney sons, families often help out on campaigns€”but they don€™t usually get paid for it. Not true for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown€™s daughter, Ayla Brown, a former American Idol contestant who has performed at three of her father€™s campaign events. FEC filings show that Brown€™s campaign has paid the company representing Ayla $9,500 for the singer to perform at his events. The Brown campaign didn€™t...
Citizens, gather €™round your loudspeakers! It is time for the final installment of this year€™s Best North Korean Story, though it might as well be titled the Greatest North Korean Story of All Time!—from €œThe Orphan Master€™s Son€ | The protagonist, a man named Pak Jun Do (I can€™t help but think €œJohn Doe€), has his life story determined by other peopl...
During an interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent news reports lately, you'd think otherwise. | A recent publication from the Center for Strategic and International Studies titled "The IAEA's Iran Report and Misplaced Paranoia," note...
Jonathan Sexton insists he is growing accustomed to Ronan O'Gara replacing him from the bench. | Sexton has won the latest tussle to become Ireland's fly-half and will start Sunday's RBS 6 Nations opener against Wales at Aviva Stadium. | In the past when the 26-year-old has been coach Declan Kidney's preferred choice, he has found himself waiting for O'Gara's entrance. | Only now, after 24 caps, is he beginning to adapt to the situation.
Hofmann, who served a single term on the City Council from 1975 to 1977, was a citizen advocate for trees before, during and after her council tenure. She invited citizens to identify the tallest and oldest trees in their neighborhoods in the 1970s. She then initiated a registry of the city's "heritage" trees and had them tagged as landmarks.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Jesse Jackson is right. | In response to the face-off in Arizona between President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last week, Jackson said, "Even George Wallace did not put his finger in Dr. King's face." And it's true; he didn't. Similarly, not even Josef Stalin wrote two autobiographies the way Obama has. And even Genghis Khan didn't have a Swiss bank account the way Mitt Romney did.
Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) were among the most forceful in making this argument, suggesting that Republicans on the committee were accusing Holder of complicity in knowingly giving false testimony to Congress without the facts...
David Catanese: A 29-year-old longshot Ohio House candidate parodies the indelible scene from "Dumb and Dumber" to snag some free media. | Mission accomplished, and well worth your click. | This web video is fresh and funny for its self-deprecation. | Not often do you see a candidate poke fun at his own chances. | But Graham Veysey understands the odds: He's running in the 9th Congressional District, where Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Rep.
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
"We are the prisoners of war... Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on trouble seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never be happy enough. Our dreams are never big enough. Our lives are never important enough, to matter." (God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy)
Judge Robert Maranger called the crimes €œheinous€: €œThe apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor. It€™s a sick notion of honour that has no place in a civilised society.€ Mohammad Shafia replied: €œWe are not criminals. We are not murderers. We didn€™t commit murder. This is unjust.
Canada's 'honour killings': Where is the sense of honour? | Judge Robert Maranger called the crimes “heinous”: “The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour. It’s a sick notion of honour that has no place in a civilised society.” Mohammad Shafia replied: “We are not criminals.
Judge Robert Maranger called the crimes €œheinous€: €œThe apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor. It€™s a sick notion of honour that has no place in a civilised society.€ Mohammad Shafia replied: €œWe are not criminals. We are not murderers. We didn€™t commit murder. This is unjust.
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | The recent Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa have proven that the Arab people are no longer willing to tolerate oppression and tyranny. They send a strong message to Western hegemonic powers and their oppressive regional allies that a new wave of nonviolent civil resistance will ultimately prevail over injustice and occupation.
Hollywood is gaga for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — shelling out boucoup bucks to her campaign, hosting fundraisers and swooning over her on Twitter. | An earlier Tweetheart message almost sounded like a love song to Warren. | "I am a Huge Supporter of yours! . . . the more i hear u the more i luv u!" Cher tweeted in December.
The girls quickly move on to the more interesting topic of Alaric's disastrous love life while Caroline calls Daddy.... Caroline can hear the phone ringing somewhere nearby. She and Elena follow the sound to a supply room.
Hollywood is gaga for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — shelling out boucoup bucks to her campaign, hosting fundraisers and swooning over her on Twitter. | An earlier Tweetheart message almost sounded like a love song to Warren. | "I am a Huge Supporter of yours! . . . the more i hear u the more i luv u!" Cher tweeted in December.
Emmanuel Touhey: I so envy Elizabeth Warren, and other law professors feel that way too. It€™s not that I want to run for the Senate, or get in the crosshairs of the big banks, or have the Treasury Secretary promise the banks that I will never head a federal agency (though it would be nice if he knew my name).
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz: An Ohio congressional hopeful gave himself a leading role in the comedy "Dumb and Dumber," hoping to get some attention in his race against two Ohio heavyweights.
Uri Avnery: A Zionist warmonger masquerading as an activist for "peace." | Prelude: This is the first of a two-part series examining several critical positions of 'Israeli' "peace" activist Uri Avnery and how these positions relate to the overall rapidly-deteriorating status of the International Palestine Solidarity Movement. In this volume, Avnery himself is unabashedly slammed as an enemy of the Palestinian people and his piec...
KENNESAW — Outspoken peace activist Jody Williams, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban landmines, denounced the United Nations' Human Rights Council in a Thursday afternoon lecture, calling it a “joke” that should...
For Goehring, having one of his players move on to play close to home — especially playing under Schlimgen, who previously coached at Scotland High School — is exciting. “Having Tom in charge is a great thing. I've watched him coach since I moved...
Lex Walker: On the surface, is a by-the-books audience pleaser that dramatizes the 1988 news phenomenon centered around three whales stuck under the ice of northern Alaska and the people that rallied to save them; below the ice, however, the seemingly innocuous story of mammalian camaraderie has a highly cynical streak that questions the motivations of virtually every person involved, making it very unclear as to whether or not this story is really...
But now I remember that a cursive “z” is basically an uptight “y,” and I can move on from there. Handwriting, good or otherwise, is more than just a style of communication. Some education experts have noted that learning proper handwriting — cursive...
PROP Joel Clinton says Hull KR's young stars must stand up and be counted tonight if they are to beat defending champions Leeds Rhinos. | With skipper Ben Galea, stand-off Blake Green and prop Ryan O'Hara all missing through injury, Clinton will be the most experienced player in Rovers' line-up at Headingley. | Already picked out as a key man for the Robins this season, Clinton will be expected to lead the way.
James Brewer: World Socialist Web Site wsws.org Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) | Workers in Findlay, Ohio continue to man picket lines at the Cooper Tire plant more than two months after the multi-national corporation locked out 1,051 workers for opposing its wage-cutting demands.
United States Attorney-General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing yesterday over demands the Justice Department turn over more documents about a flawed gun-smuggling investigation.
Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren is continuing to raise the bulk of her campaign contributions from outside of Massachusetts as she hopes to oust Republican Sen.
Lu Xun: A Chinese writer for all times – written by Ruth F. Weiss - Chapter 07 – Page 140 14. William Hazlitt, "Memories of Thomas Holcroft," in Collection Works, Vol 2. Page 155 , quoted by Chris Hedges in his book, Empire of Illusion – Chapter 03...
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 2: Musallam Al-Barrak led an opposition surge for Assembly seats in a snap poll that saw women candidates lose ground. Over 200,000 Kuwaitis voted Thursday to deliver their verdict in a contentious election marred by sectarian divisiveness and tribal rift. The outcome appears to bode ill for upcoming parliamentary term.
David Neslin, director of the state Oil and Gas Commission, said he will focus on public lands as a partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs, where he will be part of a team serving energy industry clients. | Neslin had been among heads of state agencies who were told they would have to reapply for their jobs after Gov. John Hickenlooper took office last year.
GOP Sen. Scott Brown is relying more heavily on donations from political action committees than his chief Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren. | The most recent campaign finance reports filed by both candidates with the Federal Election Commission show Brown collected more than $1.6 million from PACs in 2011. | That's more than ten times as much as the more than $
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Illinois university officials criticize President Obama's call to hold down tuition, but both sides are mostly ignoring one consequence of rising costs of higher education: debt. | Borrowers who can't pay the extra $50 fee are put into default. | First, you wonder, what's "forbearance"? Then, who's Sallie Mae?
Among the league's four expansion teams, the Yokohama B-Corsairs have the best record (14-14) entering February. | Coach Reggie Geary's team had a significant accomplishment last weekend: a two-game sweep over the Akita Northern Happinets, one of the favorites to reach the Final Four. | Defense is the key for Yokohama as it fights to maintain its fifth-place position — or rise — in the Eastern Conference standings.
According to analysts, one of the key sticking points in a merger of equals will be who gets to run the enlarged firm with both firm's highly competitive CEOs likely to be up to the challenge. | As a tie-up between trader Glencore and miner Xstrata is hammered out in coming days there is plenty of scope for hard bargaining between the two sides' highly competitive South African bosses.
Paul Sunderland wouldn't describe it as a rebound, a rebrand or a reinvention of himself since his time calling Lakers games. | Reinvigorated might be closer to the truth. | In addition to a steady stream of local college basketball games for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket, Sunderland has anchored himself over the past few years at NBC's Universal Sports network, the Westlake Village-based portal for year-round Olympic event coverage.
It was traditionally a Democrats' area," said Brown, as shoppers greeted him and told him they'd be voting for him this year against Elizabeth Warren . Store manager David Ordway and other Roche Bros. management greeted Brown inside the school...
Roseanne Barr is very active on Twitter, and had tweeted a challenge to Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have both herself and Jill Stein on their programs. Barr, who supported the Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente Power to the People campaign in 2008 and Cindy Sheehan's Independent campaign against Democrat Nancy Pelosi in 2010, has been promoting the Green Party via Twitter and her websites.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: This year's Massachusetts Senate race promises to attract national attention and record contributions from outside the state. | We don't know if the agreement reached this week by the campaigns of Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, the leading Democratic candidate, will restrain dirty politics or excessive spending, but they deserve credit for trying. | Outside independent groups – known as super PACs –
Hillary as a Bond Villian - The Daily Mail has a story on the wardrobe of U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton. It shows her latest outfit and says that she is beginning to dress like an "old-School Bond villain." This once again highlights the difficulties that professional Washington women face when they are in a position of power. Former Sec.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Although the Susan G. Komen Foundation has pulled its funding for breast cancer screening from Planned Parenthood (read more)
Since the emergence of Occupy Wall Street last year and the subsequent rise of the Occupy movement in cities across America, many have viewed them as a liberal counterpart to the conservative Tea Party movement. But how accurate is that analysis? | How Different Are They? | UrbanFaith: A Public Religion Research Institute poll that compared Tea Party supporters and Occupy supporters found some predictable differences between them.
Concerns that Israel might decide to go it alone were fueled this week when hard-line Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, a former military chief of staff, declared that all Iran's nuclear facilities are vulnerable to airstrikes.
Former University of New Hampshire goalie Mike Ayers likes everything about his new gig with USA Hockey. | Except maybe the travel schedule this weekend. | Ayers, who backstopped UNH to a pair of Hockey East championships and Frozen Fours a decade ago, is midway through his first year as the goalie coach for the U.S. National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Of the 11,586 television spots that aired the week before the Florida Republican primary, super PACs financed over 50%. Candidates now have an excuse when it comes to the negative rhetoric on the campaign trail — "it's not me, it's the super PAC that supports me." | Voter turnout for the contest was well below 2008 levels signaling that many voters felt alienated by the process.
Confined to an interrogation room at the local police precinct, now the sole suspect in Martin's death, Mitch is glaring a hole in the one-way mirror, while one of Martin's colleagues lays it on thick for the cops. Our favorite lawyer is pretty much like a caged animal. | Two weeks earlier, not noticing there's the mob henchman outside his house, Mitch is getting his first look at the list of nurses that Margaret Whitaker fired.
On Saturday, eight Salem firefighters and three of their wives are running up 82 flights of stairs — that's 789 steps — at One Boston Place in the 2012 "Fight for Air Climb," which is sponsored by the American Lung Association. | To add to the challenge, the firefighters will be wearing heavy turnout gear. | Pass the stuffed mushrooms.
No realignment is ever perfect, but when the University Interscholastic League announced new districts for the 2012-2014 school years, athletic directors in the new District 2-5A were relieved as much as anything else.
Singer Willie Nelson will play the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, May 11th, according to the venue. | Willie Nelson performs with his band during the Farm Aid Concert in St. Louis in 2009.
Those who cannot remember the 1970s are condemned to repeat them. Even if you're too young to remember the Disco Decade, you've doubtless seen pictures of cars lined up waiting to pump scarce gas at filling stations. | Mass transit? The tax would be from 50 percent to 100 percent of the "surplus earnings." It would be administered by another mammoth new government bureaucracy, the Reasonable Profits Board.
The Monroe coach will not be sad to see Bryson move on from Arlington. Another big story for Arlington was its rebound advantage which provided many opportunities for second-chance points. The Eagles outrebounded Monroe 36-20 and on a few occasions...
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before a House oversight committee Thursday, it was the sixth time in a year that he had faced congressional questions about the Arizona gun-trafficking scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Acting as a spokesman for the Democratic National Party, Newton Mayor Setti Warren touted the 257,000 jobs the U.S. economy added last month under President Barack Obama's administration Friday. | "I'm proud as a mayor to speak to the president's great work with getting people back to work," Warren said Friday at a pres conference at Chapman Construction / Design in Newton Highlands.
Appearing today on the "Jim & Margery Show" on 96.9 FM, Brown said his campaign "followed the letter of the law" by paying his daughter, Ayla Brown — a one-time "American Idol" contestant and singer — and other band members to entertain at campaign events. | The Boston Globe detailed in a story today how Brown's campaign paid her $9,500 to perform at three event since Dec. 2010.
I am writing to bring to your attention a concern for public safety, but an area of public safety neglected during the protracted discussions about the future of Portsmouth Fire Station 3.
With all the Sturm und Drang over the 2012 nomination fight, it€™s easy to lose sight of the equally important, if not more important, battles that are occurring across the country in what may be one of the most significant Senate elections in the modern era. | And for the Republicans, the opposite is true €“ they have just two open seats to defend.
INDIANAPOLIS: New England€™s Tom Brady and New York Giants star Eli Manning are back in key Super Bowl roles just as they were in 2008 when the Giants denied the Patriots an unbeaten championship season. | But when the 46th edition of the American football spectacle kicks off on Sunday, the outcome figures to rely as much on body-slamming battles between defenders and quarterback protectors as it does on typical NFL passing heroics.
So as we move on there's more pressure. Not like it's uncomfortable or hard, it's just that every show means a little bit more and a little bit more to people cause they're excited to have the band and hear the record and they're coming to see us...
President Obama has more resources and access to Democratic Party money than he did in 2008 and has been able to rely on the party to defend him against attacks, rather than a super PAC.
Ireland fly-half Jonathan Sexton claims he is growing accustomed to Ronan O'Gara replacing him from the bench. | Sexton has won the latest tussle with the Munster veteran to wear the No.10 jersey in Sunday's RBS Six Nations opener against Wales at Aviva Stadium. | However, in the past when the 26-year-old has been coach Declan Kidney's preferred choice, Sexton has found himself waiting for O'Gara's entrance.
A typical electronics factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. | Some people's opinions about Apple and the recent reports of working conditions in the Chinese factories where iPods, iPads and iPhones are made remind me of that scene in Casablanca where Claude Rains is shocked – SHOCKED – to find there is gambling going on here. | In other words, we're shocked – SHOCKED –
A plausible newcomer for 2016, Democrats say, is Elizabeth Warren , who advised Mr. Obama on the creation of a consumer-protection bureau for financial products and is now running to be a senator from Massachusetts (against Scott P. Brown, the incumbent...
Seung Min Kim: Nearly 40 Senate Republicans say they will sign on to a court challenge of President Barack Obama's appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board.
By Gazette Staff (Courtesy Photo) Elizabeth Warren (center), a candidate for US Senate, was among more than 500 volunteers attending the Martin Luther King Day of Service on Jan. 16 at the Curley K-8 School on Centre Street, organized by Boston Cares.
When people insist that Gingrich would make a great president, they generally emphasize how many ideas he generates on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. What they overlook is that a great many of his brainstorms are all wet. | I€™m not saying that all of Mr.
A $10 word trending in today's news Conceded. v. 1. Admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it; 2. Admit (defeat) in a contest.[Newswordy] | P.S. I'll bet some of them think they're big time Christians, too. | all this crap about taxes.like the government is starving for money.the feds took in over $1.5 trillion in taxes last year,the problem is they spent $3 trillion.
MJ Lee: In the FEC filings, the purpose of disbursement for all three events was listed as "event entertainment." The Scott Brown campaign hosted a Christmas holiday party at the Park Plaza Hotel on Dec. 3, 2010. | Brown campaign spokesman Colin Reed told POLITICO in an email Friday morning that "everything was done properly and in full compliance with FEC regulations."
"Multimillionaire Elizabeth Warren: I'm not wealthy." | What makes it even more delectable is that it was posted on a moonbat website, which quickly yanked it down. The truth can be a dangerous thing. | There's something about Democrat Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren that reminds me of Granny Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies. She's younger, I know, and her face isn't as emaciated. But she's got the same hair and glasses.
Even though the Lucy reveal didn't drop until later in the episode, you could still see it coming from a distance. During both scenes with Cassie at the beginning of the episode, Lucy was clearly goading a clueless and desperate Cassie for answers on John Blackwell and the medallion. Her 'statements' were really strategically poised questions, which Lucy knew Cassie would answer in turn for some clarification to her own queries.
Feb 3 2012 Lennox Herald (main ed) | AN anti-nuclear campaigner with links to Faslane activists has been nominated for the Novel Peace Prize. | Angie Zelter, founder-member of the anti-nuclear weapon campaign group Trident Ploughshares, has long been involved in numerous acts of non-violent civil disobedience against nuclear weapons. | She was nominated by Mairead Maguire, who won the award in 1976.
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