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“Dramatic, Painful” Government Shutdown Disproportionately Impacts Working Poor, People of Color; Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poor Without Health Insurance; “Imperialism & Fundamentalism Have Joined Hands”: Malalai Joya on 12 Years of U.S.-Led Afghan War. HeadlinesOctober 3, 2013 Obama “Exasperated” With GOP Intransigence on Shutdown Medicaid Opt-Out Will Leave … Continued
After 4 Decades in Solitary, Dying Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Freed, Conviction Overturned;Canadian Filmmaker and Doctor Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charges, Abused After Witnessing Massacre. HeadlinesOctober 2, 2013 Dems Reject GOP Effort for Selective Gov’t Funding During Shutdown U.S. Government Shutdown Threatens Services for Low-Income Children, Cancer Patients Shutdown Leads to Closure of … Continued
Tea Party Forces Government Shutdown with Obamacare Revolt; How Will It Impact Ordinary Americans? “The Lawbreaking is Ongoing”: Louisiana Levee Board Sues BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron For Coast Damage; Holding BP Accountable: Environmental Justice Struggle Continues in Gulf Region After 2010 Spill. HeadlinesOctober 1, 2013 Partial Shutdown Begins After Obamacare Impasse Derails Funding Enrollment … Continued
Freed by DNA, Angola Prisoner Henry James on His 30 Years Behind Bars for Crime He Didn’t Commit; Cancer-Stricken Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Given Just Days to Live After 42 Years in Solitary. HeadlinesSeptember 30, 2013 U.S. Faces Government Shutdown in Obamacare Standoff Obama, Rouhani Speak in Phone Call U.N. Security Council Approves … Continued
Protest or Piracy? Greenpeace Activists Remain Jailed in Russia After Boarding Arctic Oil Rigl; As IPCC Warns of Climate Disaster, Will Scientific Consensus Spark Action on Global Warming? Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers. HeadlinesSeptember 26, 2013 U.S. Signs 1st Global Arms Treaty; Over … Continued
Obama and Rouhani Welcome New Talks, Offering Hope to Iranians Suffering Under U.S.-Led Sanctions; Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Nairobi Mall Rampage Tied to “Disastrous” U.S. Meddling in Somalia; The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s “Neo-Con” Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech. HeadlinesSeptember 25, 2013 U.S.-Iran to Hold New Talks; Rouhani Blasts “Violent” Sanctions … Continued
Ecuador Takes on Chevron, Global Indifference in Controversial Fights to Protect Rainforest; Ecuadorean Foreign Minister on Latin American Resistance to NSA Spying & the Castro-Chávez Legacy; Corroding Our Democracy: Canada Silences Scientists, Targets Environmentalists in Tar Sands Push. HeadlinesSeptember 24, 2013 Kenya: Conflicting Reports Emerge About Standoff at Nairobi Mall Report: U.S. Has Restarted … Continued
Spilling the NSA’s Secrets: Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks. HeadlinesSeptember 23, 2013 68 Killed in Militant Attack on Nairobi Mall 78 Killed in Bombing of Pakistani Church; Militants Blame Drone War Over 120 Killed in Iraq Violence Russian Foreign Minister Accuses U.S. of “Blackmail” on Authorizing Strikes U.S. … Continued
“I Am Troy Davis”: Supporters, Family of Georgian Man Executed in 2011 Push to End Death Penalty; Benjamin Jealous on Why He Is Leaving the NAACP, Future Plans. HeadlinesSeptember 20, 2013 Syrian Deputy PM: Neither Side Can Win Syrian Civil War Report: Obama Letter Prompts Iran to Pursue Agreement House to Vote on Defunding … Continued
