Merry Christmas to New Orleans from HUD: ON HOLD for now!

"Guest Opinion: Merry Christmas from HUD This Holiday Season, It's Bulldozers for the Poor, Huge Tax Credits for Wealthy Developers  By Bill Quigley for the Gambit On the 12th day before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning...

Ganpati waiting for the makeup man

"Ganpati waiting for the makeup man Once molded, the idols of Ganpati are painted using spray guns and brushes. These idols are taken by various mandals and individuals who worship these idols from one day to...

Six Weeks and Burning

"Photo: Paul Wellman Six Weeks and Burning Coast Seemingly Spared as Zaca Fire Rages North Thursday, August 16, 2007 By Ray Ford (Contact), Ethan Stewart (Contact), Nick Welsh (Contact)With favorable weather...

Bridge under construction in China collapses

A Bridge under construction gives way, though tragic, could have been much worse if opened to the public in which thousands of users could have lost their lives. Given the tragedy of the  US Bridge collapse...

West Bank - Four dead, 20 wounded as Israeli army rolls

"AT least four Palestinians were killed in a major Israel army operation in the West Bank city of Ramallah that wounded more than 20 other people, medics said. Yussef Abdel Khader, 23, Khalil al-Badawi, 20, Ala al-Himran in his 20s, and Jamal Jawela, 29, were mortally wounded...

Protesters Return to the Grand Colonial Plaza

"Most protesters admitted that they could not win a physical battle, but hoped their resistance to the police occupation would pressure the federal government into forcing the governor of Oaxaca state out of...

Dam broken to restore California wetlands

"The ocean flowed into historic wetlands Thursday for the first time in more than a century after bulldozers peeled back the last layer of an earthen dam. Environmentalists who worked for 30 years to restore the...

The Israel Lobby & Israeli WMD

The Israel Lobby has been able to persuade Washington not to intervene in an Israeli expansionist agenda. There is also the issue of Israeli WMD.

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