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President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Archives for فبراير 2012

Records detail mosque spying; NYPD defends tactics

FILE – In this Dec. 29, 2011, file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly speaks at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, in Brooklyn, N.Y. New York Police Department spying operations began after the 2001 terror attacks with unusual help from a CIA officer. "If there are threats or […]

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FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2011, file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly speaks at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, in Brooklyn, N.Y. New York Police Department spying operations began after the 2001 terror attacks with unusual help from a CIA officer. "If there are threats or leads to follow, then the NYPD's job is to do it," Bloomberg said. "The law is pretty clear about what's the requirement, and I think they follow the law. We don't stop to think about the religion. We stop to think about the threats and focus our efforts there." (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organizations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The

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Opinion: A look into the ‘Constitutional Right’ to Health Care debate

A pro public option health care protester (Photo by Sage Ross) (MINNEAPOLIS) – Should the United States join with most other industrialized countries and have universal health insurance, spreading the cost of health care across the population?  Should we remain as we are, with a complex system that seems to make no one happy?  Or are […]

John Nordin
بواسطة John Nordin
A pro public option health care protester (Photo by Sage Ross)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Should the United States join with most other industrialized countries and have universal health insurance, spreading the cost of health care across the population?  Should we remain as we are, with a complex system that seems to make no one happy?  Or are there other alternatives? Often this debate moves immediately into a

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FBI concerned over growth in Sovereign Citizens dissent group

In this July 2, 2010 photo, two vehicles with no registered license plates are parked outside an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio. James T. McBride, a member of the Sovereign Citizens movement, owns the vehicles and claims he doesn't have to register them because the U.S. government has no authority over citizens. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
In this July 2, 2010 photo, two vehicles with no registered license plates are parked outside an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio. James T. McBride, a member of the Sovereign Citizens movement, owns the vehicles and claims he doesn't have to register them because the U.S. government has no authority over citizens. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

(MintPress) – If current congressional approval ratings truly offer insight into the frustrations Americans are currently feeling with the political system, then the swelling number of citizens acting out against the government should be all the more telling. Tax protest, disregard for the legal system and, in some cases, violence —it is a movement

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A Victory for Conscientious Objectors

Daniel Birmingham, after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army as a conscientious objector. (Photo by answercoalition.org) (NEW YORK) MintPress — In the wake of the Quran burnings at the Bagram military base in Afghanistan, winning the hearts and minds of that country’s people could become even more difficult for U.S.-led NATO forces. The incident is […]

Lisa Barron
بواسطة Lisa Barron
Daniel Birmingham, after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army as a conscientious objector. (Photo by answercoalition.org)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — In the wake of the Quran burnings at the Bagram military base in Afghanistan, winning the hearts and minds of that country’s people could become even more difficult for U.S.-led NATO forces. The incident is also not helping dissipate growing opposition to the war among active-duty troops themselves. Just this week,

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Covering the coverage: What’s behind the media’s depiction of Occupy protesters?

Media interviews Occupy organizers in New York (Photo taken October 6, Day 21 by David Shankbone) (MintPress)- One of the many issues the Occupy movement has thrust into the spotlight recently is media coverage. The issue of how the Occupy movement has been covered by members of the media has raised some important and interesting […]

Carissa Wyant
بواسطة Carissa Wyant
Media interviews Occupy organizers in New York (Photo taken October 6, Day 21 by David Shankbone)

(MintPress)- One of the many issues the Occupy movement has thrust into the spotlight recently is media coverage. The issue of how the Occupy movement has been covered by members of the media has raised some important and interesting questions. A recent article in the New york Times points out, “Newspapers and television networks have been rebuked

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Man Arrested in Attempted Suicide Attack at U.S. Capitol, Terrorist or Victim of Entrapment?

This artist rendering shows Amine El Khalifi before U.S. District Judge T. Rawles Jones Jr. in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. El Khalifi, a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by […]

Janessa Schilmoeller
بواسطة Janessa Schilmoeller
This artist rendering shows Amine El Khalifi before U.S. District Judge T. Rawles Jones Jr. in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. El Khalifi, a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by FBI undercover operatives, said police and government officials. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)

(MintPress)— When Amine el-Khalifi was arrested on Friday, he thought he was wearing an explosive devise intended for a suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol. El Khalifi was unaware that the explosives were actually inoperable and provided by undercover FBI agents, not al-Qaeda operatives. The federal involvement in the attempted terrorist

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