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Tell the board of Susan G. Komen for a Cure: Don't throw Planned Parenthood under the bus!

anonymous — 2012-02-03T08:35:09Z

The Republican plan to defund Planned Parenthood is working — but if we take action now we may be able to stop the latest attack on women's right to health care. It was just announced that Susan G. Komen for a Cure, America's largest charity to fight breast cancer, will no longer fund a program that provides free or low-cost breast cancer screenings for millions of women who get their health care from Planned Parenthood.1 This is a huge blow. In abruptly pulling (...) - contributions

CLEARING THE GROUND FOR WAR AGAINST IRAN

anonymous — 2012-02-02T17:36:03Z

There is a frightening crescendo building towards war in the Middle East. The UN is debating a resolution on Syria demanding regime change. This follows the withdrawal of the Arab League delegation there and calls for intervention. The US military is clearing the ground for war against Iran. In a report to Congress, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed that Iranian leaders "are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States." (...) - contributions

U.S. - China Energy Trade War Imminent?

anonymous — 2012-02-02T16:52:34Z

Washington loves free trade – if it produces a surplus for the U.S. In an election year, with a modest economic recovery underway, American politicians are trumpeting their credentials in saving and creating jobs and protectionism sentiment against foreign products is rising. And the number one target? China. Hardly surprising, as during the period January-November China's surplus balance of trade with the U.S. reached $272 billion, almost 8 percent higher than that (...) - contributions

Notice - Byron, Illinois Nuke In Trouble

anonymous — 2012-02-01T19:24:12Z

Loss of Off-site Power Shuts Down Reactor ... by Bob Nichols Jet Stream Winds push Radiation to Downtown Chicago The Weather Channel (San Francisco) Excelon Corporation announced Monday, Jan 30 that one of two reactors at Byron, Illinois had automatically shut down due to loss of electrical power from the electrical grid. The two Byron nuclear stations generate almost 7 Billion Watts of heat, 2.3 Billion Watts is turned into electricity; the remaining 4.7 Billion Watts of Heat is wasted (...) - contributions

Letter of february to Obama.

anonymous — 2012-02-01T11:03:50Z

Mr President Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500 Mr President, It is already the month of February 2012, and the five Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, are still not liberated. You cannot say that René González is free, as your justice system does not allow him to return to his country; in consequence, his life is in danger. In my last letter to you, I wrote how we are a great (...) - contributions

The weeks' nuclear news to February 1

anonymous — 2012-02-01T10:33:17Z

Australia: The Australian media excelled itself in its distortion of news on Aboriginal protest in Canberra. There may be an investigation into the violence there – violence not from the Aborigines, but from the police. Focus on this incident obscured a deeper problem – the draft Constitutional changes which include entrenching the discrimination and land-grabbing that goes on in the interests of the uranium/nuclear industry. The Commission's full report is (...) - contributions

The unfulfilled promises of microcredit: some new evidence

anonymous — 2012-01-31T18:46:24Z

Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank, made the promise of a world without poverty thanks to the magic of microfinance and social business . Since the main problem of poor people was, he said, that they are denied access to capital and markets, the way to release them from the grip of poverty was to lend them small amounts of money. The micro-borrowers would then become competitive micro-entrepreneurs in ultimately rewarding markets. Furthermore, (...) - contributions

15 Things More Important Than Newt's Sex Life on the Moon

anonymous — 2012-01-28T18:42:31Z

1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is s till possible . . . if Iran changes course." So, unless Iran, which the Secretary of Defense says is not developing a nuclear weapon, ceases developing a nuclear weapon, we're going to war. Sound familiar? Ever seen this (...) - contributions

Video: TWO's Wayne Besen on Rachel Maddow Discussing Romney's Anti-Gay Donations

anonymous — 2012-01-28T17:00:11Z

Last night, TWO's Wayne Besen appeared on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show to discuss how former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney indirectly helped fund so-called "pray away the gay" therapy. The Tyler Charitable Foundation, set up and funded by the Romneys, donated $10,000 in 2006 to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which promotes the ex-gay programs. The charity also donated $25,000 to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which opposes marriage equality and has compared LGBT (...) - contributions

The Symbol

anonymous — 2012-01-28T03:16:02Z

The Symbol By David Glenn Cox The time comes and it overtakes us all, a time when all, which we thought, could never be so, is so. All of the things, which once seemed impossible, have now come to pass. The world as we once knew it is gone; our lives as we once knew them are inverted, contorted and pulled inside out. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, some thirty years ago, any motivation to promote Capitalism as superior economic system to the people has evaporated and ceased to exist. (...) - contributions