My very smart friend Adrien Rain Burke, an artist and former journalist living in LA, has had a few of her articles published on Counterpunch. Here is her latest excellent contribution.––"Dear Ms Pelosi,- ...
" In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's long-running family drama A Raisin in the Sun brought together an ensemble of African-American artists — Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. among them — on Broadway. ...
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"Lost WWII Sub Found, Navy Credits FamilyUSS Grunion Last Heard From July, 1942""PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- After a nearby family worked to find the wreck, the Navy confirmed that the wreckage of a sunken WWII vessel...
A vote in Ohio is going ahead today amid a controversy over the voting procedures in the state. "With the credit crisis roiling Washington, Wall Street and the presidential campaign, voters in the key battleground state of Ohio cast their first ballots amid a controversy over...
The true "Obsessions" demonstrated by this real life horror story are those of the Republican Party and call for widespread repudiation by honest people of the sordid and inexcusable methods the GOP has stooped to in...
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Kyle Busch has found the sweet spot, winning Friday’s American Commercial Lines 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, his third win in three NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts at the fast track.
It also marked his second straight win, his eighth overall in the series, and...
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Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide, contributing to 5.4 million deaths from heart disease, stroke and other disease annually. world health organisation warned against the...
Vanity always vanity...Accept yourself for the unique expression of infinite consciousness that you are and you don't need vanity and expensive and dangerous procedures to feel wonderful about yourself."Women's lives are being put at risk by cowboy cosmetic surgery clinics...
Interesting take here by Texas Attorney, Oscar Gonzales (extract). So, who has been more reckless? You decide. " I’m sure no irony is intended, but the corporate media keeps switching back and forth between the refugees of Hurricane Ike to the refugees...
" Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In Haiti, it has killed at least two people, but weakened to a tropical storm. Gustav''s winds fell to 95km/h (60mph), although experts warned...
Fed up with constant bullying large number of British school teenage girls are going for boob jobs and plstic surgery to make them more popular and avoid being targeted with playground jeerings. Some girls are even going under the knife to get boob implants to match their...
"It was 45-years-ago today that Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. Tonight, Barack Obama will make history by accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president. As many as 75,000 people are...
"Angry relatives of Madrid crash victims asked yesterday why the aircraft was allowed to fly two hours after it aborted a take-off because of a technical fault. A total of 153 people died on Wednesday when the Spanair aircraft bound for the Canary Islands failed to take off,...
In another incident of open gun culture a teen age boy murdered his mother. This ghastly & shocking incident happened after mother and son had an argument. The boy has been arrested on murder charges. When will the gun culture end in USA. " ...
In a major setback to ruling Labour party , the Scottish National Party has won a by-election on Glasgow East seat. Labour critics hailed the victory and said that Labour is mired in...
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