President Obama defends use of drones
Posted by: Jennifer Rees
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:59:47 -0700 | political-news
During a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, Thursday, President Obama spoke in detail about the use of drones, forcefully defending the US drone program and attempting to justify the contentious strikes as legal and necessary to...
Al-Jazeera bans article critical of Zionism only to republish it later
Posted by: northsunm32
Doha :: Qatar | updated 2013-05-24 12:00:13 -0700 | political-news
An article entitled "The Last of the Semites" was published in Al-Jazeera May 14. However, it was removed Sunday, May 19. The article by Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad came under attack as soon as it was printed. The article...
Radio hosts see White House as Black House
Posted by:
Barry Ellsworth
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 19:33:45 -0700 | political-news
The wailing began as soon as the White House became the Black House with the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and has reached its zenith with his re-election. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost of the Radical...
'Functionally obsolete' bridge collapse shows need to fix aging infrastructure
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:46:48 -0700 | political-news
"We've still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren't safe." – President Obama, March 2013 A long section of an Interstate 5 bridge connecting the United States to Canada collapsed Thursday evening, and many...
On Tennessee Valley Authority, Republicans seek to defend New Deal from Obama
Posted by: northsunm32
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 19:23:55 -0700 | political-news
The Tennessee Valley Authority dates from 1933 and was a key project in President Franklin Roosevelt's plans to create huge infrastructure projects that would create jobs and produce benefits to those in the area. Hidden away in a new budget...
Man killed for being gay in New York City
Posted by: Jerome McCollom
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 11:05:54 -0700 | political-news
Marc Carson was a 32 year old gay man. He was a gay man, because now he is dead. He is dead because of a bullet from one Elliot Morales, a man one year older but who had a much...
2 arrested, fighter jets scrambled after threat aboard plane from Pakistan to England
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Manchester :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 19:26:59 -0700 | political-news
A Boeing 777 on route from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, and carrying more than 300 people, was diverted to an airport outside London on Friday after two men threatened to blow the plane up, CNN reported. Police arrested the...
Syrian opposition struggles to unify all its factions before peace conference
Posted by: StephenManual
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 19:49:10 -0700 | political-news
The fractious Syrian opposition on Friday struggled to remove all its differences and get united on one platform before the possible international peace conference on Syria in Geneva. Russia and the United States have been striving hard to organize an...
Pakistan government rehashed that US drone strikes are unlawful
Posted by: hmtis
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-24 18:36:58 -0700 | political-news
Islamabad - The Pakistan government Friday rehashed its view that US automaton strikes in its region were unlawful, after President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for their utilization. The US president mounted a firm defense of his incognito automaton...
Interpol rejects Russia bid to locate UK investor
Source: Fox News
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 16:11:10 -0700 | political-news
The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime. France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in...
Mexico: far fewer disappeared than feared
Source: Fox News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-24 19:40:52 -0700 | political-news
Mexico's top security official says far fewer people have disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong says federal and state governments are working...
Iran election: Conservatives dominate narrow field
Source: BBC
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-24 18:44:13 -0700 | political-news
Whether voters will go for this narrow field is another matter. The election authority has allowed eight people to stand in the ballot on 14 June. Five belong to the conservative camp, one is a centrist and the other is...
State Department official who pushed to change Benghazi storyline up for promotion
Source: Fox News
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 15:54:46 -0700 | political-news
Published May 24, 2013 FoxNews.com The State Department official who played a key role in massaging the Obama administration's storyline on the Benghazi attack has been put up for a promotion -- a move that could trigger a heated confirmation...
State Department official who pushed to change Benghazi storyline up for promotion
Source: Fox
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:07:51 -0700 | political-news
Published May 24, 2013 FoxNews.com The State Department official who played a key role in massaging the Obama administration's storyline on the Benghazi attack has been put up for a promotion -- a move that could trigger a heated confirmation...
Why don?t we speak for ourselves?
Source: Arab News
Mena :: Ukraine | updated 2013-05-24 16:14:28 -0700 | political-news
I saw the list of the speakers and the name of the moderator who happened to be John Duke Anthony...I planned to be in the D.C. area during the time of the forum and was looking forward to hear what...
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