WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate, amid warnings of further attacks on the United States, approved a bill on Friday that would allow President George W. Bush to maintain his controversial domestic spying program.

Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the last place on earth I would have expected a “structurally deficient bridge” to collapse, but it happened. As sure as the levees broke in New Orleans, the bridge is no more. Now the state of Minnesota is living a nightmare where people I speak with are alternately devastated and furious: two parts tears, one part rage, with the ratio shifting by the hour.

As millions of college students begin preparing to enter college this fall, many have become accustom to increased tuitions year after year. Nationwide college tuitions are climbing and in some states the increase is 10 percent or more going into the fall semester. Stewart A. Alexander, a Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for President, says free education is possible through university level; a position the PFP, Peace and Freedom Party, has supported for 40 years.

Thursday, July 26, 2007 -

To look at the viaduct at 16th and Halsted, one would never guess that it was the site of a massive and bloody battle.

Sometimes it's the little things that reveal the horror of oppression most vividly.

Dr. Mona El-Farra, speaking here recently as part of a 17-city U.S. tour, related how recently a Palestinian woman in the Occupied Territories had gone into labor and was heading to a hospital.

On August 2, representatives of the immigrant community sent a message to the Chicago offices of front-running presidential candidates Clinton and Obama: they won't wait till 2009 to stop raids and deportations.

Perhaps the most alarming slice of twentieth-century U.S. history is virtually unknown to the general public, including most scholars of American history. One hopes that a recent BBC documentary titled The Plot Against America and an article of the same name by Columbia Law School professor and longtime human rights activist Scott Horton, on the website of Harper’s magazine, will sound an alert.

In Richistan: Fantastic Wealth for a Few; Steady Decline for Many

Remaining Movement media outlets continue to be sabotaged by the Government