Obama motivated the troop buildup with a speech that recalled Bush's call for a "war on terror." He recycled the Bush lie that the Taliban govt of Afghanistan "refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden" & that U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was revenge for 9/11.

The head of Blackwater revealed the details of his collaboration with the CIA to locate and assassinate top al Qaeda operatives as part of a covert antiterror operation Tuesday, and blamed Democrats for the leak that ended the program.

Rape victims need justice too!!

Malalai Joya: "it is almost as if the Taliban was still in power. After the war, the U.S. brought to power these misogynist warlords called the Northern Alliance, who are just like the Taliban. These were the same people who ruled between 1992 and 1996".

Iraq's oil production was nationalised in 1973. Oil revenue accounts for over 70% of Iraq's GDP & 95% of government revenue. The idea that Iraq's oil wealth should go to foreign oil corporations is extremely unpopular in war-devastated & impoverished Iraq

When Palin touts her book in Indiana, pro-lifers will be there--because they don't believe she's one of them

EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN should see this important movie. We know the system is broken, but Michael Moore tells us just how broken this system is. I hope you take the time to see it. The link takes you to a theater near you.

Isn't it perfectly clear that the uproar over a public option in the health care reform bill now squeezing its way through Congress is about nothing but the foot in the door to socialized medicine and ultimately to other socialized things? What a break

Tell Goldman Sachs Your at-risk employees should go wait in the same line with the taxpayers who bailed you out. Bankers at Goldman Sachs enjoy a stockpile of 200 doses of the vaccine. The same amount allotted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in 2001, and this alarming and unconstitutional legislation has severely undermined American freedom. It is time to rein in the out-of-control government powers embedded in the Patriot Act. ACT NOW!