MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday urged Congress to approve a $500 million anti-drug program for Mexico, saying not to do so would be “a slap” against a crucial neighbor beset by drug violence.
I was stunned when I read this! I’m a retired service member who has not had so much as a parking ticket and the Army and Marines would rather have felons occupying their ranks? I feel like I wasted 20 years of my life, check this out:
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24374282/
Having lived through the antiwar period of the 60’s, before being sucked into the vortex in southeast asia, I have been amazed at the seeming lack of mass protests against the current imperialism and it’s consequences.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush, seeking a Middle East peace legacy that eluded his predecessors, said on Tuesday he is still hopeful an Israeli-Palestinian deal can be reached before he leaves office in January.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The senior negotiators from the House and Senate said they accommodated many White House proposals for farm subsidy reform on Tuesday in preparing the new U.S. farm law for a final series of votes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have dominated political advertising. Increasingly, they are not alone….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A plan to require the U.S. government to stop filling the nation’s emergency crude oil stockpile until prices drop has enough votes in the U.S. Senate to overcome a likely presidential veto, a Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday.
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic Sen. Barack Obama strongly denounced his former pastor on Tuesday, saying he was outraged by assertions made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright about the U.S. government and race that have disrupted Obama’s presidential campaign.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called for urgent debt relief for Haiti on Tuesday to ease the burden of a food crisis that sparked violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation earlier this month.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — He’s confident and competitive. Superstitious and silly. Admits his mistakes. Shares credit. Always in control. That’s Barack Obama on the basketball court, the hardwood hideaway that helped him adjust to a white world as a racially mixed teenager – and now stands as a sweaty platform for his Democratic presidential campaign….