House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced today that the U.S. House is considering reinstituting the Depression-era Glass Steagall Act, which, among other things, barred banking holding companies from owning other financial concerns. Glass Steagall also barred banks that...
Senator Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn, has told Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, that he would fillibuster the Health Care Reform bill in its present form. Liberal action groups such as Progressive Change...
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General McChrystal, Commander of NATO and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador were in front of the Armed Service Committee selling President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy. ...
Karsai predicts 5 years Obama 2 and its the money problem that rears its ugly head, how does Afghanistan pay for it new large army. Well there is black gold and plenty of gas, dig deep and they can find gold. I...
The Obama Administration formally declared Monday that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to the public's health and welfare. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson made the announcement today as the Copenhagen Conference...
Imelda Marcos will not win the seat as she is not liked in the Philippines her daughter will win the governors seat, she does not get on with her mother and is known to be anti-corrupt. The reporter has...
"An Argentine judge has overturned a ruling that would have allowed the first gay marriage in Latin America. The official court Web site says national judge Marta Gomez Alsina ordered the wedding blocked until...
A United States fundamentalist group is at the heart of Uganda's anti-gay law. Originally known as The Fellowship, an international organization founded in 1935, today it is known as 'The Family', described by Jeff...
A five-part report by David DeGraw on the economic meltdown fallout and the factors that contributed to it. Essentially, the people of the U.S. and the world are suffering now and facing worse times due to the...
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" WASHINGTON -- Political frustration over the rescue of Wall Street and high unemployment erupted in the House Thursday, with one committee threatening to impose tighter scrutiny on the Federal Reserve and another trading verbal insults with Treasury Secretary Timothy...
I find it interesting that only Bill Moyers, and not the mainstream media, has the courage to denounce the US Congress demonization of the Goldstone Report. Why Is Congress Demonizing an Investigation of Israel's War Crimes in Gaza? Editor's Note: The following is a...
Dirty Money - Dirty Politicians? The 15 Biggest Congressional Recipients Of Wall Street Campaign Cash Which members of Congress have so far received most Wall...
Two main problems continue to plague the Copenhagen conference, the dates of which are quickly approaching (Dec. 7-18), threatening to leave everyone involved in negotiations asking the question 'what next?'. The economic implications involved with enacting carbon...
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced a national call to action on ENDA. The call came after the Human Rights Campaign confirmed the Committee on Education and Labor will vote on Wednesday, November 18,...
As expected, the Communist parties are biting dust along with other things in India by-polls.In the traditional communist strongholds like Kerala and West Bengal states in a clear people's verdict the main hard red...