It was announced by Barack Obama that in accordance with his campaign statements that he is deploying 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq in order to seek out Osama bin Laden and the members of al Qaeda per the original Resolution passed by Congress in the wake of 9-11 (after, of course, at first promising […]
Obama Announces Troop Surge: More War, More Debt, Less Accountability
It was announced by Barack Obama that in accordance with his campaign statements that he is deploying 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq in order to seek out Osama bin Laden and the members of al Qaeda per the original Resolution passed by Congress in the wake of 9-11 (after, of course, at first promising […]
Obama Meets With Iraq’s al Maliki: Restates Bush’s 2010-2011 Timetable For Troop Withdrawals
The AP reported today that in a meeting with Iraq’s president, Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama reiterated the terms of the agreement reached in the last 100 days of the Bush Administration for American troop withdrawals beginning in August of next year. Although this agreement got little press with Americans diverted by the U.S. elections and […]
Why Chicago lost the 2016 Olympics bid and why Rio de Janeiro won
Chicago is out of the 2016 Olympics but this defeat is not the city’s fault or a result of a deficient candidacy. This is a sign that the world is changing and this country’s leadership seems not to notice. As usual, the U.S. remains a bit out of touch with the rest of the world, […]
The Coffeehouse Pediatrician
If anyone exemplifies our national need for single-payer healthcare it is Dr. Pierrette Mimi Poinsett. I first met Dr. Mimi a few months ago at a coffeehouse in Petaluma, California. It was easy to notice her warm smile. I immediately felt comfortable around her. So, I introduced myself. Her name tag simply said Mimi. Over […]
Malawi: Blogger wins BlogHer International Activist Award
We first wrote about her in a post that profiled four Malawian female bloggers, on November 4th, 2007. This time we write about her exclusively, and her recent achievement solely to do with her blog. Malawian blogger Pilirani Semu-Banda has won a scholarship award that will take her to the BlogHer ‘09 conference in Chicago, […]
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