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The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors
By S Lee Caudle The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors (via Atlas Left) While the GOP/Tea Party fiddles, blaming […]
When Bibi Meets Modi: Israel and the Indian Elections
(By Shalom Goldman via IslamiCommentary) Shalom Goldman After weeks-long elections in India, the Hindu nationalist BJP party, with Narendra Modi as prime-minister elect, has emerged […]
‘Journalist’ Michael Kinsley says Gov’t should make Publishing Decisions
Glenn Greenwald spends the last third of his excellent new book, “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State”, exposing the mentality and function of pseudo-journalists like David Gregory, who are in fact better understood…
Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear
Originally published on Renew Economy. The falling cost of renewables is not news to those who have paid attention to analysis from green-focused think tanks, or groups like Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But it is when a major European utility, with…
Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims
By Juan Cole AFP Arabic reports that Syrian refugees, and Christian refugees in particular, are hoping that the visit of Pope Francis to Jordan on […]
Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi
Twenty members of a single family were wounded when a rocket slammed into their home near an army base in Libya’s second city Benghazi overnight, […]
Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’
Fox News contributor and half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that veterans had died waiting for health care from Veterans Affairs facilities because President Barack Obama was “lazy” due to his upbringing. “The problem starts…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See
By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary […]
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate
As explained earlier, due to pressure from the White House and NSA’s supporters in Congress, what could have been real NSA reform was completely changed at the last minute, in secret. The bill, which was substantially different than what both the Judiciary…
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