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Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Kills Dozens, Is There a Link to Climate Change?

A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday killing dozens of people. The Associated Press reports hospitals are treating more than 120 patients including about 70 nenos. The st...

Posted: Maio 21, 2013, 3:47 no

The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Former Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national cou...

Posted: Maio 16, 2013, 8:56 pm

VIDEO: From Boston to Pakistan, Pentagon Officials Claim Entire World is a Battlefield

Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force ( AUMF ), passed by Congres...

Posted: Maio 16, 2013, 8:19 pm

AP Reporter Appeared on Democracy Now! While Being Targeted By Justice Department Dragnet

On April 17, 2012, Associated Press reporter Matt Apuzzo appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about the New York City Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities in the city and around the northeastern United States. A day earlier, Apuzzo...

Posted: Maio 15, 2013, 8:06 pm

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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Editor, Zuade Kaufman.

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023

By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford The streets are much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are comm...

Author: edi...@truthdig.com

Posted: Maio 22, 2013, 1:46 pm

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

A Berkeley, Calif., resident who nearly died after an incident in which he said he asked two Highway Patrol officers to read a traffic ticket they had issued him has filed a lawsuit against them and the state. Olegs Kozacenko, a 58-year-old form...

Author: edi...@truthdig.com

Posted: Maio 22, 2013, 5:43 no

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

A landmark bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system cleared its first major hurdle Tuesday when the legislation was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee without any significant alterations. The bill, which includes a pathw...

Author: edi...@truthdig.com

Posted: Maio 22, 2013, 1:05 no

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

Is the desire to enter the U.S. television news market corrupting Al-Jazeera English’s journalistic integrity? The network’s silent retraction from its website of a controversial article criticizing Israel suggests it is, Glenn Greenwald writes a...

Author: edi...@truthdig.com

Posted: Maio 22, 2013, 12:48 no

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