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Since the tragedy of 9/11, we have learned some of the ways Osama bin Laden has schooled his al-Qaida organization into a formidable terrorist organization. No major media organization I know of, however, dares today to discuss how for more than five decades - the last two decades on our own soil - our own government systematically has been operating a more substantial terrorist school....

Our current Darwinian system has not and will not work for the millions who are one or two paychecks from the street. It's time to "talk turkey" and institute a national maximum income as a model for the world to follow....

Hilton is the San Francisco attorney who filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President Bush and other government officials for "allowing" the terrorist attacks to occur...

Anti-labor Willie Brown threatened the jobs of workers to get them to acquiesce to his viciously anti-labor proposal to balance the San Francisco city budget on the backs of the workingclass, instead of taxing the profits of the large corporations which could easily be done and is being proposed as a ballot measure. This good Democrat has built his viciously anti-workingclass, anti-tenant career in which he became a millionaire real estate attorney on the lie that he cares about labor....

We have never faced a worse, or at the same time, a more seminal moment. The Arab order is in total disarray; the US administration is effectively controlled by the Christian Right and the Israeli lobby (within 24 hours, everything that George Bush seems to have agreed with President Mubarak was reversed by Sharon's visit); and Palestinian society has been nearly wrecked by poor leadership and the insanity of suicide bombing....

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Community leaders are pleased by the decision, noting that many of their young people have tried to volunteer for either the IDFor national service in the past, but have been turned down....

With two million people on general strike in southern Peru in protest of the government's sale of two public power companies, President Toledo has suspended the constitution to fight so-called "terrorism." Report from Hugo Paredes Fuentes in Peru, received this afternoon by indymedia:...

When swarms of robo-cops began to emerge from the woodwork like red ants, from all directions, protestors were squeezed up onto Citadel Hill (a 19th-century fort complete with defensive ditch, ramparts, musketry gallery, powder magazine, signal masts and a really steep hill – the most defensible spot in the British Empire), while literally hundreds of police converged from three directions and stood face to face to face in the abandoned intersection below. This lunacy ended up looking like a ...

It's commonly believed that people hate pedophiles because they're sexual with children. What if behavior were not the reason? Why do people hate pedophiles?...