By Jayne Lyn Stahl
While President Obama held his Sunday news conference, and touted the virtues of talk over combat, saying that diplomacy “strengthens our hand,” the bombs rained over the Waziristan region of Pakistan killing …

By Ray McGovern | consortiumnews
The prose of the recently leaked report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on torture seems colorless. It is at the same time obscene � almost pornographic.
The 41-page …

By Joe Conason | TruthDig
If conservative leaders no longer even try to offer serious solutions to national problems, nobody should underestimate their capacity or their will to mobilize angry Americans. Behind the April 15 �tea …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
The below piece first appeared in The Huffington Post on January12, 2009. I think it deserves a second look in light of Thursday’s disclosure by Attorney General Eric Holder that there will …

Courtesy of Karen Rybold-Chin | OnTheEarthProductions & PDA Blog Contributor

Courtesy of Karen Rybold-Chin | OnTheEarthProductions & PDA Blog Contributor
Noam Chomsky answers questions after his talk in Madison, WI.
This lecture was given to a packed crowd at the Orpheum Theatre, 4-7-09.

By John Bachtell | PWW.ORG
CHICAGO � Health care activists rallied here to express their concern that the big hospital, insurance and pharmaceutical companies were �marginalizing� the single payer option in the discussion on health care …

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