[Updated] Bush Shoe Incident in Iraq {CNN}

CNN’s Take on Bush Shoe Incident, with additional video of Bush talking about it. An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President George W. Bush at a News Conference during his surprise visit to Iraq today. The president ducked and the size 10′s missed. Among Muslims, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom [...] [...]

Video: Resisting Empire —LAILA AL-ARIAN and CAMILO MEJIA at Cornell 10/27/08

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Canadian judge rules against deportation of outspoken anti-Iraq war resister

Go to Real News Network Video on Youtube. Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman won a stay of deportation this week as a judge refused to allow Canada to send him back to the United States to face prosecution for desertion. Hinzman is one of numerous war resisters currently in Canada. Despite the Canadian parliament passing [...] [...]

Alaska Women Reject Palin rally-Anchorage Alaska

Thanks to Tony Ingraham for finding this gem: I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning. Hooo. It was an experience. About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena’ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. After shaking it off with a good [...] [...]

Palin has WORSE than a Pastor Problem! She’s Herself Preached Controversy! – 14 min – Sep 2, 2008

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. Google Video Direct Download – iPod/PSP Palin: Iraq war ‘a task that is from God’ —Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry [...] [...]

PA raid on Beit Ummar orphanage

CPTHebronAdded: August 14, 2008 Less than six months after the Israeli military raided orphanages and schools in Hebron, the Palestinian Authority followed suit in nearby villages. Christian Peacemaker Teams(CPT) visited the orphanage in Beit Ummar a few days after the PA raided it in August 2008. [...]

No ‘good guys’ in Georgia conflict

Bio Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O’Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is also the author of a book entitled You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age (New Press, 2007). Rothschild is also the co-founder and director of The Progressive Media Project, which since 1993 has been distributing opinion pieces to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the national debate. [...]