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• Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being “progressive,” it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Christians Must Find a More Christ-like Symbol than ‘Crusaders’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  Imagine for a minute the fallout were a Muslim high school in America to choose for its mascot “the Jihadists.” In that light, how do you think Muslims (or Jews) view Christian schools whose mascot is “the Crusaders?” I’m no expert on…
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• Obama Regime Keeps Landmine Policy in Place

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: Washington Post:A review of U.S. landmines policy is ongoing and will take awhile to complete, a State Department spokesman said on Wednesday, clarifying an earlier comment that the Obama administration had concluded it needed the weapons.“The administration is committed to a comprehensive review of its ...
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• ‘The Three Most Important Issues’?: What the Manhattan Declaration Gets Wrong

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  As I said in my previous post , I can find things to applaud in the recent Manhattan Declaration along with things to dispute. But I don’t think Chuck Colson got it quite right when he spoke about the statement to the…
  3 days ago

• Death Toll in Philippines Massacre Rises to 57

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: Guardian:The death toll from a massacre in the southern Philippines rose to 57 today after police found another 11 bodies in the country’s most horrific incident of election violence.Not all the bodies have been identified, but 22 of the victims are believed to be journalists, making Monday’s attack the ...
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• Terrorism That’s Personal

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Very graphic, disturbing and tragic images.Via: tampabay.com:We typically think of terrorism as a political act.But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United ...
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• Still No Justice for Priests in Notorious El Salvador Massacre 20 Years Later

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: Alternet:In 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, were brutally murdered in El Salvador. Two decades later, the extent of U.S. complicity remains largely unspoken.
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• Forced Labor and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  I don’t know about the “new” part, but so it goes.Via: Guardian:In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.Human trafficking has become a major issue ...
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• Orissa Govt orders heavy security deployment in Korapat District

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Narayanpatna (Orissa), Nov 22 (ANI): The Orissa Government on Sunday ordered heavy deployment of security forces in Korapat Distrct following the death of two activists of the Maoist backed Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS) outfit in Narayanpatna town.On Saturday, two CMAS activists, including its chief Wadeka Sigana, ...
  6 days ago

• School children take to roads against Maoists’ atrocities in Chhattisgarh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Bastar, Nov.21 (ANI): Chhattisgarh State has been badly affected Maoist menace in the recent past. Maoists have also targetted school buildings, blocking of roads, and are involved in many disruptive activities.A large number of students in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on Saturday took out a protest recently ...
  1 week ago

• Nov. 20 1969, Forty Years Ago: "A clump of bodies"

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 136
  My Lai photographer Ron Haeberle exposed a Vietnam massacre 40 years ago today in The Plain DealerNovember 20, 2009Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer Ron Haeberle, a Fairview High School graduate, was a combat photographer in Vietnam. He was in the village of My Lai in 1968 when 300 Vietnamese civilians were killed by ...
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• Memory & Justice

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 488
  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - photo licensed under creative commons On November 1, The International Center for Transitional Justice launched a new website, Memory & Justice. The website was initiated as a guide for memorial sites that observe mass atrocities around the globe. In commemoration of these ...
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• CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Horseback Riding Academy

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: ABC News:The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA ...
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• Cuba using draconian laws to repress its citizens

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 126
  "Rather than dismantle the repressive machinery, Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active." From BBC: Cuban conditions remain harsh Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The communist ...
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• Mahato slapped with fresh charge of helping Maoists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) leader Chhatradhar Mahato, who was arrested in September this year, was accused in a fresh case Wednesday for helping Maoists during a gunbattle with the joint forces in West Bengal.According to sources, Mahato was brought to the Jhargram ...
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• What did Hitler have against the jews? What was the whole point of killing so many?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 169
  I am from India and in my tenth grade at school I read about the world wars and the horrors of WWII with the extermination of so many jews. Ever since I have wondered what pushed Hitler to the brink of such insanity. What did he have against them? Was there any personal vendetta involved? Killing innocent people in ...
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• Chevron Sued for Billions After Poisoning Waterways in Ecuador; One of the Largest Environmental Damage Cases in History

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: Sydney Morning Herald:Tens of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases in history.The Ecuadorean claimants said the company illegally dumped toxic waste from its oil production, which filtered ...
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• Short Video About UAV Combat Operations

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  I wonder if Captain Dan is allowed to have a Bobblehead Jesus on the “flight” deck?
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• Middle East News Round-Up

  
  Hope2012 — Authority: 121
  20 Sobering Statistics/Reasons As To Why We Must End the Wars and Save More of Our Soldier Children and Middle Eastern Citizens From Suffering And Dying - DProgram 10/29/09 Obama, eager to win some influence on health care reform with the Republican neocons, has begun to get approval from them for the escalation of ...
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• A look back at Somalia

  
  WHITE WATCH — Authority: 128
  White “peacekeepers” in action The response :
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