Russian troops raid Georgian town; scores dead

"Russian tanks rumbled into the separatist province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town Saturday, a major escalation of the conflict that has left hundreds of civilians dead and some areas...

Brazilian psychic stands by quake alert mobilizing Indonesia

""The danger of this earthquake exists, there is no doubt," Jucelino Nobrega da Luz, 45, said by telephone from his home in Aguas de Lindoia in southeast Brazil. "I'm glad to hear that the Indonesian authorities are preparing the population," he said. A spokesman for Bengkulu...

Bhutto vows "long march" unless Musharraf backs down

Rather than cooling down, things seem to be heating up in Pakistan. Several European countries have suspended aid to the country and others are condeming the suspending of the consitution."Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto threatened on Wednesday to lead a mass...

24 hours of action starting today

"The mobilization will continue for 24 hours and hundreds of events will mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The actions are organised by the UN Millennium Campaign, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) alliance and a wide range of partners...

BrooWaha: Mobilizing citizen journalists

BrooWaha founder Ariel Vardi talks about how his publication utilizes Web 2.0 applications to make news media more inclusive.

Understanding Ann -- Coulter and the Rhetoric of Hate

"Ann Coulter ignited the latest firestorm of her career last week when she dismissed John Edwards as a "faggot" on national television. As throngs of bigoted conservative fanboys cheered Coulter's most recent...

Last Clinic Standing

An extremist pro-life organization that helped make doctors the targets of deadly attacks in the 1990s is now mobilizing a protest to shutter the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. With reproductive rights under...

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