LOCAL News :: Gender & Sexuality
SATURDAY: Next Prop 8 Protest / What Went Wrong in California?
Current rating: 3
21 Nov 2008
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Gay Liberation Network (photo: Chris Geovanis)
Carrying Forward the Fight vs. Prop 8 ~~
Picket Century Theater
This Saturday Night!
5 PM
1715 Maple Street, Evanston
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In the Madhouse
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21 Nov 2008
by
Reiner Metzger
The crisis will force up unemployment by 2%. The proposed measures are outrageous. Consumption must urgently be started up again. Nothing wiser occurs to the elites. This is an unfathomable tunnel vision among the elites of this world. In a crisis, a new approach must be adopted.
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News :: International Relations
Thousands of Sadrists protest Iraq-US military pact
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21 Nov 2008
(Updated)
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Ali al-Saadi, Agence France Presse
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Thousands of Shiite followers of the firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad on Friday to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011.
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News :: Elections & Legislation
It's official: Clinton to be named Secretary of State
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21 Nov 2008
(Updated)
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John Byrne, Raw Story
President-elect Barack Obama will name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of State shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides told Politico's Mike Allen late Thursday. AP confirmed quickly thereafter.
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News :: Peace
19-Year-Old Soldier Sentenced to 14 Months of Confinement for Refusing to Deploy to Iraq
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21 Nov 2008
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Courage to Resist
19 year-old Army private Tony Anderson was court martialed Monday and sentenced to 14 months of confinement and given a dishonorable discharge from the military for "desertion with intent to avoid hazardous duty" and "disobeying a lawful order." The young soldier refused to deploy to Iraq in July of this year on the grounds of conscientious objection to war.
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News :: Elections & Legislation
Agents of Change or Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons?
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21 Nov 2008
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! hosts a discussion about Barack Obama’s Advisers and Transition Team
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Once More Fear Stalks the Streets of Kandahar
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21 Nov 2008
(Updated)
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Robert Fisk, The Independent/UK
There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot was torn to pieces.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Environment
Everglades Uprising! In Chicago
Current rating: 2
20 Nov 2008
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ef! this
Learn about ecological resistance in south Florida - Be inspired for eco-anarchy in the Midwest - Get ready for a hot winter ! Tour by Earth First!
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AIPAC's Man in the Obama Camp
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20 Nov 2008
by
Philip Giraldi
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News :: International Relations : Media
The Shortwave Report 11/21/08 Listen Globally!
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20 Nov 2008
by
Dan Roberts
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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