When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Greece, she praised the Greek government’s austerity measures to reduce deficits and cut spending. The U.S. and Greece face a common challenge of dealing with soaring deficits, but they also face something else in common: a refusal to deal with out-of-control military spending. And given that the United States is a major arms seller to Greece, Hillary Clinton will encourage the Greeks to slash workers’ wages and pensions, but not its enormous military appetite[...]
Illness and treatment only reinforced my determination to shake global indifference to the terrible violence in Congo. BY EVE ENSLER Reposted from the Guardian UK Some people may think that being diagnosed with uterine cancer, followed by an extensive surgery that led to a month of debilitating infections, rounded off by months of chemotherapy, might [...]
America is vulnerable and under attack. As a response to the attempted Times Square bombing, allegedly by a Pakistani-born naturalized American citizen (Read: brown-skinned person), Senator Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill to hack away at the United States Constitution by stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship if they are affiliated with a foreign terrorist [...]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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