The front of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen on June 27, […]
(MintPress) - After a record $5.2 billion dollars was spent in the 2012 election cycle, growing numbers of voters are calling for a move to publicly finance elections. Leading the way is Wisconsin, a progressive state where many citizens are pushing for a statewide referendum to oppose Citizens United, a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case allowing
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D, walks toward a illustration of […]
(MintPress) - While the Sierra Club is considered a moderate environmental organization focused on practical natural preservation, it’s now turning up the gears to battle construction of the Keystone Pipeline, intended to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. “For civil disobedience to be justified something
A stream of pedestrians cross the Gateway to the Americ […]
(MintPress) - About a year after the National Immigration Institute said it filed a complaint against a sex-slavery ring operating near the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican immigration authorities reported that they broke up the ring after a raid on Tuesday. Federal police, agents of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute and prosecutors raided a
In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, a Syrian re […]
The United Nations-Arab League peace envoy for Syria said the conflict has reached "unprecedented levels of horror." "The country is breaking up before everyone's eyes," Lakhdar Brahimi told a closed door meeting of the UN Security Council,the BBC reported. "Only the international community can help, and first and foremost the Security
The U.S. is reportedly preparing to establishing a dron […]
UPDATE: Niger has reportedly agreed to have U.S. drones stationed in its territory, a move that U.S. and Nigerian representatives hail as an important step forward in the fight against Al-Qaeda linked rebels in neighboring Mali. Nigerian President Mahamadou Issoufou accepted the deal Wednesday signaling an escalation in U.S. military involvement
Sarah Palin holds a newspaper as she co-hosts NBC News& […]
Late last week word came from a Republican confab held in Charlotte, N.C., that Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, told his fellow conservatives that their party must stop being “the stupid party.” The jokes, of course, write themselves. Not to be outdone, Haley Barbour – the former chair of the National Republican Committee,
