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Intn'l Day Against Homophobia -- Report and Pictures!

2 hours 37 min ago
Saturday was the inaugural International Day Against Homophobia (I.D.A.HO) event in Chicago. IDAHO was started a few years ago in Europe as a means to call attention to the problem of anti-gay hate in countries around the world, including here in the United States.

Protests at UC Berkeley law school graduation

7 hours 9 min ago
10:53 PDT BERKELEY -- Some 50 protesters, clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods to emulate the infamous photos of prisoners in Iraq, picketed the Boalt Hall graduation today, demanding that UC Berkeley's law school fire Professor John Yoo for his reported authorship of the Bush administration's policies on torture.

Ask The Debate Coach!

Sun, 2008-05-18 00:21
Expert Help Is Only 48 Hours Away

Wake-up, America!

Sat, 2008-05-17 10:31
We Americans should be fed-up and angry as hell! What has happened to us? When did we get so weak and detached?

Army Sgt. Matthis Chiroux Refuses His Deployment to Iraq

Fri, 2008-05-16 21:46
Sgt. Matthis Chiroux, a 24-year-old who spent nearly five years serving in the U.S. Army, publicly refused his orders to deploy to Iraq today. Chiroux made the statement in the rotunda of the Cannon Building of the House of Representatives, just minutes after 8 members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War testified about the realities of the U.S. occupation of Iraq to members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Did Hezbollah Thwart a Bush/Olmert Attack on Beirut?

Fri, 2008-05-16 21:21
A Sudden Case of Cold Feet

Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well - Anti-Chavistas, That Is

Fri, 2008-05-16 20:24
Who said crime doesn't pay? Read on.

John Cusack’s War: The Actor Battles to Un-Embed Hollywood With His New Film, ‘War, Inc.’

Fri, 2008-05-16 20:20
Back in 1989, in his smash hit “Say Anything,” John Cusack famously stood with a boom box above his head outside the home of the woman he loved blasting Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.” With his latest films on the Iraq war, Cusack is standing outside Hollywood with a TV above his head broadcasting his political movies calling on the public to wake up and “Do Something.”

Judge Backs US Conscientious Objector

Fri, 2008-05-16 20:18
The Army should grant conscientious objector status to Michael Barnes, a Fort Richardson, Alaska-based paratrooper who had his request for that designation denied last year, US magistrate John D Roberts concluded yesterday.

Fire? Rain? The Choice Remains 9/95

Fri, 2008-05-16 20:18
ATTN; SH*THEADS! YOU DON'T TOUCH THIS GAD DAMN THING! A Forum Topix post also known as A Sh*thead War. (Jer. 6:14; 8:11) 5/10 "A Nation of Sh*theads" 5/11 Anthrax Canadian-style. (Corny bacteria!?) 5/14 Fire? Rain? The Choice Remains!

Paramilitary Police Attack Al-Nakba March

Fri, 2008-05-16 20:08
What a Way to Mark Independence Day"

Once a felon, always a felon?

Fri, 2008-05-16 17:20
After sentencing and release is over, now the penalty begin.

Hidden Things You Do Not Know! 5/14

Fri, 2008-05-16 15:19
This just scrapes the surface of the work of the Bush Nazis! Illegal Eagles in the military?! Foolproof Bush Nazi murders. Can Hillary come back? Did the Third Reich come from England? 5/14 Pruning trees wrong.

Bio-Jet Fuel

Fri, 2008-05-16 01:59
Airbus and Honeywell plan to create bio-jet fuel

The New Slavery

Thu, 2008-05-15 23:44
Monsanto

The Shortwave Report 5/16/08 Listen Globally!

Thu, 2008-05-15 23:28
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

6/11: Protest at Caterpillar Annual Shareholder Meeting

Thu, 2008-05-15 23:09
WEDNESDAY: JUNE 11 CATERPILLAR ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING IN CHICAGO 12 NOON-2:00 PM Northern Trust Bank, 50 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago

Killtown: discredited 9/11 researcher under attack

Thu, 2008-05-15 22:24
During his six year stint as a 911 researcher, "Killtown" has found fame, some say infamy, over his Shanksville research, the most controversial portion being his assertion Valencia McClatchey's photo, "the End of Serenity", is a fake.

Big Brother Close Up

Thu, 2008-05-15 21:18
An FBI Terrorism Conference in the Heartland