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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi meets with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy on Sept. 13, 2012. (Photo from the Council of the European Union)

Egyptian President Morsi In Brussels Seeks To Reassure Europeans

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Remember The Ladies: The Struggle For Women’s Rights Post-Arab Spring

Protesters chant slogans at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) On March 31, 1776, future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who […]

Edward Rhymes
بواسطة Edward Rhymes
Protesters chant slogans at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

On March 31, 1776, future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was soon to be appointed a member of the committee drafting the Declaration of Independence: “... In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I would desire you would Remember the Ladies. ... Do not put such unlimited power

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Agitate For Change, The Need For Real Democracy

Police departments across the country are adopting many of the tactics and equiptment more commonly associated with organized military untis. (Photo by the Oregon DOT) (CHICAGO) — Sitting on the sidelines accomplishes nothing. Indifference isn’t an option. Nothing important changes without public involvement and activism. “We the people” must show we mean it. Doug Dowd […]

Stephen Lendman
بواسطة Stephen Lendman
Police departments across the country are adopting many of the tactics and equiptment more commonly associated with organized military untis. (Photo by the Oregon DOT)

(CHICAGO) -- Sitting on the sidelines accomplishes nothing. Indifference isn't an option. Nothing important changes without public involvement and activism. "We the people" must show we mean it. Doug Dowd is an economic historian, economist and political activist. At age 94, he's slowed, but still active, vibrant and committed for long overdue

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Gary Johnson Challenges Two Party Approach, Fights To Appear In Presidential Debates

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, addresses an audience of students and the public at Macalester College, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) (MintPress) – In a country that serves as a beacon of democracy, third party candidates are fighting for their rights to appear in U.S. presidential […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, addresses an audience of students and the public at Macalester College, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

(MintPress) – In a country that serves as a beacon of democracy, third party candidates are fighting for their rights to appear in U.S. presidential debates — the very engines that drive politicians’ messages to the American public. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is challenging just that. On Friday, he filed an antitrust

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Study: Drone Strikes Counterproductive In Pakistan, Radicalize Local Populations

The traumatizing attacks have turned whole villages once neutral, or perhaps sympathetic to the American mission to route terrorism, into firm opponents of any U.S. presence in their country.

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
In this Thursday, June 16, 2011, file photo, Pakistani villagers offer funeral prayers for people who were reportedly killed by a U.S. drone attack in Miranshah, capital of Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. (AP Photo/Hasbunullah, File)

My own relatives, close family relatives, have been killed. Elders of the villages, the maliks, the children of the schools, other children, all have been victims of strikes,” said Najeeb Saaqib a community leader in Pakistan’s tribal region of Waziristan. Saaqib’s testimony and the testimonies of 130 other Pakistani citizens form the backbone of,

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Boom In Trauma Centers Can Help Save Lives, But At What Price?

A medical student checks on a patient in the hallway of the emergency room at Harborview Medical Center Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today. ORANGE PARK, Fla. –  When Orange Park Medical Center won preliminary state approval in November 2011 to open the […]

Phil Galewitz
بواسطة Phil Galewitz
A medical student checks on a patient in the hallway of the emergency room at Harborview Medical Center Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today. ORANGE PARK, Fla. –  When Orange Park Medical Center won preliminary state approval in November 2011 to open the first new trauma center in northeast Florida in almost 30 years, executives said the decision would save lives. But that’s not how its competitor 18 miles away saw the move

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Adelson: My Casino Is Being Investigated Because I Oppose Obama

This June 7, 2011, file photo shows Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson waving to reporters as he arrived for Sands China’s annual meeting in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate, has been the leading contributor to outside groups supporting Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates this […]

Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica
بواسطة Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica
This June 7, 2011, file photo shows Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson waving to reporters as he arrived for Sands China's annual meeting in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate, has been the leading contributor to outside groups supporting Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates this election cycle, donating tens of millions of dollars. His company, Las Vegas Sands, is also the focus of a federal investigation into possible violations of bribery laws at its casinos in

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