Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

The Armenian Gay & Lesbian Association of NY posts a short video of a recent presentation on homophobia in Armenia. Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the video in a separate post which also includes an excerpt detailing a documented case of rape in the Armenian army....

German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for an 88-year-old U.S. resident, on suspicion he helped in the murders of at least 29,000 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard, they said Wednesday....

Discomfiting as it is to say so, President Barack Obama was right to cut Charles Freeman loose—but not for the reasons that Freeman's foes might think. [more ...]...

NYP: ALBANY - Call it an un-cover charge. A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint. Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human traff...

Another Not So Smart Power initiative humiliatingly spurned | Cold Fury Oh, but this is rich: Boy Genius makes overtures to “moderateâ€� elements of the Taliban, gets stupid ass spanked — again: Obama’s foreign policy doesn’t seem to be very effective....

The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq? Today Iraq is succeeding, but as Generals Petraeus or Odierno might say, the situation remains fragile and reversible. Whereas the Bush-war ended in a new if messy democracy, this year we could see an Obama-war begin; the new President has sent ...

China Hand at American Footprints, on the meaning of a personnel fight in the Obama administration that you probably have never heard of: [C]onsider l’affaire Freeman the first conspicuous salvo in the effort to sabotage the Obama administration’s outreach to Tehran.   Under the Bush admin...

Filed under: Editor's Picks, Switched Video We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair last month and came away with a renewed desire to be ten years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases a new line of Star Wars science toys: Star Wars Science - This new line of toys from Uncle...

Justin Raimondo, "The Objectivist Death Cult". Объективи�ты -- �то по�ледователи андроида по имени Ayn Rand. Как показывает �тать�, они почему-то очень кровожадные. И не пон�тно, что тому при...