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NY health care rally honors Ted Kennedy

August 30, 2009 By Dan Margolis

NEW YORK – At nearly the same time as the funeral for Ted Kennedy, the “Lion of the Senate,” took place in Boston, thousands of people gathered at the crossroads of the world to both fight...

Shoethrower to be released for good behavior

August 30, 2009 By Morning Star

The Iraqi journalist imprisoned for hurling his shoes at former President George W Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behaviour.

Japan elections: JCP as ‘constructive opposition party’ gains support

August 30, 2009 By Japan Press Weekly

At a news conference on August 24 in Nagano City, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo made the following comments at the present stage of the election campaign:

US role in Colombia and Honduras sparks Latin American criticism

August 30, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Storm signs are up over Latin America as new tensions play out against historical memories. The great liberator, Simon Bolivar, said in 1929 that the United States is "destined by Providence to plague America with misery...

I survived a health care town hall

August 29, 2009 By Jack Buthod

Any one paying attention to the news media’s coverage of the health care town halls across the country could be forgiven for assuming they all must be full of loud, gun-toting talk-radio disciples who would all...