The clerk at my local post office was absolutely apoplectic at the site of the motley group of young African-American political canvassers that had set up their literature table on the sidewalk in front of her station.She raged loudly to me that she would call the police and have them carted away.The trigger for her rage was the big emblazoned photo on the top and side of their table with a pictu
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration plans to transfer a Guantanamo detainee to Yemen despite its ban on the repatriations due to security concerns in the Arab country, The Washington Post reported Saturday.The administration's January decision on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the prison camp where nearly half of the remaining inmates are from Yemen, cast further doubt on President Barack Obama's
WASHINGTON – In a campaign season of anti-establishment ferment, some of the Republican Party's best-known insiders are building an ambitious fundraising machine for the fall elections and beyond.They started with a bang in April, cashing a $1 million check from a Texas oil magnate.After a quiet May, friends and foes are watching to see if the new organization's core group, American Crossro
HUNTSVILLE, Ontario – After failing to resolve their differences on economic strategy, world leaders are turning their attention to grappling with some of the globe's toughest foreign policy problems.President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight countries meeting in Canada were to open their second day of talks Saturday focused on nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea
This piece was originally published on AlterNet.It's not surprising that the mainstream media is paying little attention to the 15,000-plus community organizers and progressive activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan this week for the second United States Social Forum.After all, the center-left political establishment isn't paying attention either.Why is it that the Tea Party -- the right-wing ed
I was looking over a study published by the Family Research Council which supposedly proves that there is a significant problem of homosexual misconduct in the military. FRC announced the study in May and no one really paid attention to it because the organization's bias against the lgbt community is commonly known.But the study does need to be observed, not because it's credible but bec
– Here are some developments as leaders of the Group of Eight advanced economies and Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies meet in Canada.TOP DEVELOPMENTS * The world's richest economies, loaded with debt after spending their way out of the financial crisis, papered over differences on how to clean up their finances with minimal damage to growth.DEFICIT REDUCTION/STIMULUS TENSIONS * T
Martin Feldman, the U.S District Court judge who issued an injunction against enforcement of Barack Obama's proposed deep-water drilling moratorium this week, was heavily invested in the oil and gas industry last year, according to his 2009 financial disclosure.Feldman's 2008 disclosure showed investments in Transocean — the contract drilling firm that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig that