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By Rick Rozoff
Cold War Origins Of The Somalia Crisis
For the past seven months world news outlets have provided daily coverage on what has been described as escalating piracy off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and attempts by international, primarily Western, military vessels to combat it. Absent from such reporting, as the exigencies of commercial news broadcasting inevitably entail, is how and why the situation in the region reached the impasse it has.
By Marjorie Cohn
Stanford Antiwar Alums Call For War Crimes Investigation Of Condoleezza Rice 
During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.
By Cyril Mychalejko
Military-backed Mapping Project In Oaxaca Under Fire
A University of Kansas professor is under fire for a mapping project in Mexico partially funded by the U.S. Defense Department as colleagues in the field of geography are calling for an investigation, while growing local opposition to the project leaves it in peril.
By Ellen Theisen
'Daily Voting News' For May 06, 2009
'Daily Voting News' for May 06, 2009
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New Orleans: As Unemployment Rises So Do Lines At Local Food Bank
Debra South Jones,Exec Dir commented "I started JTRA 10 years ago;I've never seen so many people.The number of first timers increases every week"-This economy has people on the toughest times,ever"-Ray Reggie,Chairman of the Board added"-"It's so sad when we run out of food & have to look at the people in line & say"Hopefully next week we'll have more food.We need help and we need it now.We need food,donations,and volunteers."
By David Swanson
It's National Nancy Off The Table Day
That's right, children, it's national Nancy Day, honoring the occasion on May 7, 2006, when Nancy Pelosi first allowed Tim Russert to badger her into agreeing that she wouldn't permit the impeachment of Saint George or Father Dick, not even if they barbequed children on the White House lawn.
By Roger Shuler
Were Siegelman And Minor Prosecutions True Inside Jobs?
What makes the Don Siegelman and Paul Minor prosecutions so particularly heinous. For one thing, growing evidence indicates that federal judges were in on the fixes.
By Mark Crispin Miller
Millions Wasted On Voter Registration In '08
The panacea offered here,however-"an automated system,"with (presumably)all-electronic voter rolls--would certainly enable more such disenfranchisement,unless it were rigorously policed at every level(state &federal).In any case, all discussion of "waste" alone,with no attention paid to the deliberate tactics used to block the vote from coast to coast--in this last election just as in '00,'02,'04 & '06--is a waste of breath.
By Paul Craig Roberts
America's Shame 
The United States has been Israel's greatest enabler in its long-term murder of the Palestinian people. Millions of "evangelical Christians" endorse Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The rest of the world condemns the Israeli military attack on the Gaza Ghetto. Last week the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution requiring a ceasefire and the withdrawal of the Israeli SS from Gaza. The US abstained.
By Mark Crispin Miller
Pentagon Denies The Awful Truth, Gets BUSTED!
And so it is with Al Jazeera's video of the military's top chaplain in Afghanistan instructing US troops to "hunt people for Jesus" in that Muslim land.The Pentagon's spokesman quickly charged that that explosive moment "grossly misrepresent[ed] the truth,"as it was mostly "taken out of context."To which denial Al Jazeera, & American filmmaker Brian Hughes, who shot that film,have come out with a devastating answer,as Scahill
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It is unclear whether the US asst secy of state's call to Israel to sign on to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty indicates a change in Washington's policy toward Israel's nuclear program. Where there's smoke, there's fire. The US has been protecting Israel for years, creating a diplomatic umbrella and pushing away any attempt, in any international debate, to discuss the nuclear weapons the entire world believes Israel has.
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