Last Friday, a mere two weeks after the mid-term elections, the Republican-led House Select Committee on Intelligence released its final report on the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, clearing the administration of any wrong-doing. The investigation took over two years and thousands of hours of “asking questions, poring over documents, […]
The country is reeling with countless protests from coast-to-coast in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. However, as Mother Jones reports, getting away with shooting and killing citizens is “business as usual” for St. Louis law enforcement officers. […]
Dozens of veterans are appealing to the Missouri National Guard in an open letter to stand down in Ferguson and stand with the protesters and not the police. The letter was posted to March Forward and contains 162 signatures so far. According to their website, March Forward! is an affiliate of the ANSWER Coalition (Act […]
Former president Jimmy Carter had an opportunity to respond to recent remarks by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during an interview at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to discuss his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. Speaking to a radio station in Phoenix, McCain used Carter’s foreign policy legacy […]
An Afghan woman has killed at least 25 Taliban militants and injured 5 in a 7-hour gun battle to avenge the murder of her son. PressTV reports that the woman, identified as Reza Gul, picked up arms after her son, a local police officer, was “shot dead before her eyes in western Farah province.” Gul […]