I am not questioning Obama's great intelligence, his debating skills or his work ethic. He is a talented orator and is ahead of his rivals in the electoral race. Nevertheless, I am obliged to raise a number of delicate questions.
[T]he casino-enriched Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community...is recovering, acre by acre in the southwest metro, portions of the land its ancestors once lost to European settlers, and meticulously returning it to age-old looks and uses.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show.
We North Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people on this planet. Most of us are fully up to speed on Britney Spears' last several breakdowns, the bios of our favorite "American Idol" and "Dancing With The Stars" contestants.
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows. ...
In "State and Revolution," comrade Lenin admonished that the state is an "organ of class rule." The corporate-fascist class that rules in the United States exploits racial differences in the lower classes through the creation of special socio-economic zones that "ghettoize" the l …
The class struggle in France is raging. A wave of strikes, coupled with another spontaneous rebellion in the working-class suburbs of Paris show that deep inequalities exist in the capitalist welfare state.
Bolivian opposition tactics could split the country, writes Charley Allan. BOLIVIAN ambassador for trade and integration Pablo Solon issued a stark warning to solidarity campaigners on Wednesday night that his country "stands at the door to civil war."
A judge in southern Chile has sentenced a Catholic priest to recite seven psalms daily for three months as punishment for illegal parking.
While the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and developments in Venezuela, Pakistan and Palestine have dominated the world news, another crisis has been building in southeastern Europe.
Imagine traveling hours to a government clinic to receive HIV/AIDS medicine and treatment—only to find out no medicine is there.
It is not exactly news that the Western world's fetishized "free market" is actually a mixed economy, combining cradle-to-the-grave socialism for the rich with ball-breaking, bomb's-away capitalism for everyone else.
But occasionally the press stirs itself to look at Venezuela and particularly its president, Hugo Chávez.
A recent UNICEF-commissioned study revealed that in the Philippines there were over 200,000 human rights violations against children who live in areas under military "counterinsurgency" operations. The violations took place in 800 incidents from 2001 to mid-2006.
Jury finds providing health care is not a crime
Nurses are running ads today in 10 Iowa newspapers pointing out that this means that Dick Cheney, with his heart trouble, would probably be dead now if he were an ordinary American forced to search for cardiac care in a thicket of mercenary insurers and heartless HMOs.
Scores of workers from MTV Networks walked off the job, filling the sidewalk outside the New York headquarters of its corporate parent, Viacom, to protest recent changes in benefits.
The Des Moines Register informed the campaign that Kucinich is not invited because the newspaper determined "that a person working out of his home did not meet our criteria for a campaign office and full-time paid staff in Iowa," the campaign said. ...
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect from suburban Baltimore who's imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba claim they have evidence that their client "was subjected to a program of state-sanctioned torture" while he was in CIA custody. ...
Living expenses in the US have risen dramatically in the past few years, in ways that are not reflected by official measures of inflation or considered in already grim economic outlooks for the coming year.
TWO police officers handcuffed a 64-year-old pensioner, threw her to the ground and then searched inside her bra and underpants on a busy suburban road in the mistaken belief she was a drug dealer.
Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed on Wednesday a nationwide referendum on his presidency and the mandates of the governors of the country's nine departments, the majority of which are part of the opposition, reported Granma Newspaper.
President Chavez's very graceful acceptance of the results has been an extraordinary showing of dignity and integrity to the world community, which had gotten used to calling him a dictator.
The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards.
The displacement crisis caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq and the subsequent internal armed conflict has reached shocking proportions.
Top firms from the United States and China will sign Monday more than 30 commercial deals worth billions of dollars ahead of senior level official talks on critical economic issues, an official said.
A month after US army reservist Matthis Chiroux publicly refused to deploy to Iraq, the former sergeant on Sunday set himself up for possible prosecution by failing to report for active duty with his unit in South Carolina.
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