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Lou Dobbs: ‘US Troops Out Now!’

I don’t know how I missed it, but Lou Dobbs has called for immediate withdrawal of US troops. From Afghanistan? YES! From Iraq? YES! From Germany, Japan, South Korea, and everywhere else around the world? YES! He even has a petition on his Website! Here’s Lou Dobbs, in his own words:

County GOP Goes Non-Interventionist? Not Yet…

Last week the executive committee of the Alameda County (Calif) Republican Central Committee approved a resolution to be voted on by the full committee calling for a non-interventionist foreign policy. Alameda County covers the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, with about 1.5 million people. Tuesday night the full committee met. [...]

Dying for Crooks: US Troops in Afghanistan

Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world – except for Somalia. Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates… Karzai is making Marion Barry look like Mother Teresa. The Washington Post reported today that one of Afghanistan’s top ministers [...]

Antiwar Radio’s Pacifica Debut

Antiwar Radio took to the California airwaves last night on Pacifica Network’s KPFK — 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. Former Iraq arms inspector Scott Ritter, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and author James Bamford joined host Scott Horton for an hour of incisive perspective from the most important minds in foreign [...]

Peres, in Argentina, Leaves Sense of Irony at Home

Israeli President and political office-juggler Shimon Peres is in Argentina schmoozing the poor man’s Eva Peron, batty President Cristina Kirchner, in the week before Palestinian Authority strongman Mahmoud Abbas visits. Though he seems to be trying to stay one step ahead of his enemies, he’s traveling so quickly he seems to have left behind sense [...]

Conservative Democrat Nelson Will Vote to Let Health Bill Proceed

Washington - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three moderate Democratic senators wavering on whether to allow debate on health care legislation to proceed, said Friday that he'd vote to move the bill forward.

Nelson's decision inches the Democrats closer to the 60 votes they need to authorize the bill to proceed to full Senate floor debate. Democrats control 60 seats, and are thought now to have 58 committed votes.

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Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

Washington - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".

From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also faces a major fight in getting his top legislative priority – health care reform – through Congress, must make a series of critical decisions within a relatively short time.

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Women's Reproductive Health Is Not a Social Issue

Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a "social issue."

Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night? That's a social issue. Wondering why your child wasn't invited to her classmate's birthday party? That, too, is a social issue.

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America's House of Lords Debates Health Care

The health care debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House and back again. Now it's back in the Senate, as the United States tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without universal health care for its people. One hundred senators from 50 states will decide what lives and what dies, health-care wise.

With so much at stake, it makes sense to ask: who are these 100 senators? Might that give us a clue as to what to expect from America's upper chamber?

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Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain aspects of the radiation and biological sciences. The facts which follow will introduce how our debilitated veterans are being misinformed of the possible role played by uranium in their illnesses.

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Democracy Now! 2009-11-20 Friday

Headlines for November 20, 2009; As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide; On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest "School of the Assassins" at Ft. Benning; Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan

Democracy Now! 2009-11-19 Thursday

Headlines for November 19, 2009; Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate; Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law; As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: "Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?"

Democracy Now! 2009-11-18 Wednesday

Headlines for November 18, 2009; EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison; Amidst California Fiscal Crisis and Political Gridlock, Scholar and Activist George Lakoff Proposes Ballot Measure to End 2/3 Rule in State Legislature; "The Card Game" - New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry and Proposals for Reform

Democracy Now! 2009-11-17 Tuesday

Headlines for November 17, 2009; Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts ; Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative ; Raj Patel on America's Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome