I've been hearing of conflicts between Israel and its neighbors my whole life, but the news media never explained enough for it to make ...

From Alternet : According to Paul Buchheit, a professor with City Colleges of Chicago and founder of fightingpoverty.org , “ if middle- and ...

Nice visual summary from True Majority . Click on the image for a larger version, or find an even larger one here .

UPDATE: If you live in Dallas, TX, see Occupy Dallas .

("DU" meaning democraticunderground.com .) Report: Obama top recipient of [Murdoch's] News Corp. donations Political donatio...

Lots more at iwdrm .

1. At DU, links to info re- " CIA torture theorist working for KIPP charter schools ": former American Psychological Association...

John Pilger is a journalist and documentary maker who's twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award and whose docs have receiv...

The most famous whistle-blower of the Vietnam era hailed the leading figures behind the WikiLeaks document dump as heroes today, before head...

NYU political science grad student Drew Conway has used open source tools to chart the incidents reported; the trend doesn't look good. ...

What I learned from the army about language and dehumanization It's hard to get people to shoot other people when they aren't in imm...

"YOU TAKE MY WATER, BURN MY OLIVE TREES, DESTROY MY HOUSE, TAKE MY JOB, STEAL MY LAND, IMPRISON MY FATHER, KILL MY MOTHER, BOMB MY COUN...

Sheehan has announced that on March 13 (which I'm told is the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq), she will found a new camp acros...

"It turns out that, in April, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India (acronymically TAPI) signed a Gas Pipeline Framework Agree...

Five of the world's top few scientific experts in biological warfare using anthrax have met untimely deaths that their family members or...

From TalkingPointsMemo By Eric Kleefeld - June 17, 2009, 6:01PM Earlier today, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) put up ...