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10th Anniversary of Alaska Flight 261
 Christine Clarridge
Those who lost loved ones when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California have learned some hard, bitter truths in the 10 years since the crash.
1/3rd of Women in US Military Raped
 Ole Ole Olson
How the US military is dealing with this appears to demonstrate a pattern of sweeping it under the rug. In 2008, 62% of those that were convicted of sexual assault or rape received very lenient punishments such as demotion, suspension, or a written reprimand.
Mexico: Maya Tomb Find Could Help Explain Collapse
 Manuel de la Cruz
Mexican archaeologists have found an 1,100-year-old tomb from the twilight of the Maya civilization that they hope may shed light on what happened to the once-glorious culture.
Obama's Speech: Long on Hype, Short on Facts
 Calvin Woodward
President Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won't just be "one of those Washington gimmicks." Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won't have any teeth.
Smallest Survivors Pose One of Biggest Problems
 Ben Fox & Vivian Sequera
The smallest survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath. Many of the countless thousands of children scattered among Port-au-Prince's makeshift camps of homeless have nobody to care for them.
Opinion Briefing: Latin America’s Leftists
 Steve Crabtree & Jesus Rios
As in other regions around the world, the United States currently has strained relations with several of Latin America's leaders and an image problem among many of its populations.
 Obama's Human Rights Record - Part 2
 The Real News Network
Ratner: Obama declared end to torture and secret prisons, but rights in US still threatened.
Kidnapping Expert's Family Remains in Limbo
 Dudley Althaus
Mexico's gangland havoc exacts immediate death or desolation from many of its victims, but the bell tolls more slowly for those even less fortunate.
Canada's Long Road to Mining Reform
 Cyril Mychalejko
Rape. Murder. Corruption. Environmental contamination. Impunity. These are just some of the charges and incidents that have plagued Canadian mining operations abroad for years. Now one Canadian lawmaker has taken on the Herculean challenge of legislating mining reform in a country that has traditionally acted like a parent in denial.
Invasion of the Body Scanners
 Randall Amster
The concept of "stimulus" may soon take on new connotations in the days ahead. The US federal government is poised to emplace full-body scanners at airports across the nation, capable of peering under a person's garments.
Haiti and the 'Devil's Curse'
 The Real News Network
Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti's history of foreign intervention.
Marijuana in the Classroom? Sometimes It's Legal
 Brad Knickerbocker
Around the US today, hundreds – perhaps thousands – of high schoolers are bringing pot to school, and they’re doing it legally. Not to get stoned, but as part of prescribed medical treatment. And they don’t have to tell school authorities about it.
Bashing Bush No Longer Working for Democrats
 Capitol Hill Blue
For a while, bashing former President George W. Bush seemed the best strategy for any Democrat who wanted to win an election. No more.
Nuclear Power Regaining US Favor Amid Recession, Climate Concerns
 Judy Pasternak
The Obama administration may soon guarantee as much as $18.5 billion in loans to build nuclear reactors to generate electricity, and Congress is considering whether to add billions more to support an expansion of nuclear power.
One Quarter of US Grain Crops Fed to Cars - Not People, New Figures Show
 John Vidal
One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
Worried Obama Works to Reinvent Himself
 Capitol Hill Blue
With his Presidency threatened and his agenda under assault, President Barack Obama is working overtime to reinvent himself and recapture the campaign magic that propelled him into office in 2008.
US Court Green-Lights Corporate Election Spending
 The Real News Network
Michael Doyle: Supreme Court ruling could magnify corporate role in US politics.
Mexico Economy Rides on Drugs
 Lizbeth Diaz
Mexican cartels, which control most of the cocaine and methamphetamine smuggled into the United States, bring an estimated $25 billion to $40 billion into Mexico from their global operations every year. To put that in perspective: Mexico probably made more money in 2009 moving drugs than it did exporting oil, its single biggest legitimate foreign currency earner.
Roe v. Wade 37 Years Later: The Science on "Fetal Personhood" Hasn't Changed
 Lynn Paltrow
According to PersonhoodUSA, one of the reasons Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided is that the Court did not have available to it the "well-known facts of fetal development." Today, on the thirty-seventh anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we thought it would be valuable to fact check that claim.
US Supreme Court Shreds Campaign-Finance Laws, Lifts Corporate Spending Restrictions
 Sam Ferguson, Jason Leopold & Kyle Berlin
In a sweeping 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down several longstanding prohibitions on corporate political contributions, saying legislative measures to control such spending infringed upon corporate First Amendment free speech rights.
Exit Stage Left: Air America Goes Silent
 Capitol Hill Blue
Air America, the left-wing talk radio network that tried to compete with the more established right-wing icons of the airwaves, closed down Thursday - a victim of dashed hopes, mangled programming and lofty goals that were never met.
Obama's Human Rights Record
 The Real News Network
One year later, Michael Ratner assesses President Obama's human rights record.
Networks Giving Americans Sanitized Version of War
 Sherwood Ross
U.S. television networks have given the public a sanitized, largely bloodless view of the war in Iraq, an academic authority on communications writes.
Why is the FBI Still Hiding Information about the Assassination of Martin Luther King?
 Noel Brinkerhoff
The FBI continues to keep secret hundreds of thousands of pages of documents stemming from the Civil Rights Era, including information related to the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Mexico's Drug War Leaves a Generation of Narco Widows
 Catherine Bremer
Behind the daily toll of drug murders, thousands of "narco widows", along with mothers, sisters and children, are paying dearly for a trade that has killed some 17,000 people in three years, the vast majority healthy young men.
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes
 Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley & Brian Ross
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
Murders at Guantánamo: Exposing the Truth About the 2006 Suicides
 Andy Worthington
It's hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper's Magazine, but let's try this: The three "suicides" at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all.
Mexico Has Put Authoritarianism and Censure Behind It: President Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
President Felipe Calderón declares that Mexico has left behind authoritarianism, oppression and censure and that we have become a democratic nation, in which freedoms are unrestrictedly exercised.
Disputes Emerge Over Haiti Aid Control
 The Real News Network
Al Jazeera: Most Haitians here have seen little humanitairian aid so far. What they have seen is guns, and plenty of them.
MLK: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence
 The Real News Network
Exactly one year before his death, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. risked everything — his career, the support of black Americans, the civil rights movement itself — to denounce the war in Vietnam.
Mexico: Journalists' Options - Silence, Exile or the Grave
 Emilio Godoy
Journalists are the target of such violence in Mexico that many have been forced to seek refuge in the United States, or to give up their profession. And the outlook at the start of this year is even grimmer for media workers in this country.
85 Elderly Quake Survivors Await Death in Haiti
 Alfred de Montesquiou
With six residents killed in the quake, the Municipal Nursing Home now has 25 men and 60 women camped outside their former home. Some have a mattress in the dirt to lie on. Others don't.
Poll: Obama Hasn't Done Much on Racial Front
 Reuters
Fewer Americans believe the presidency of Barack Obama, the first African American elected to the White House, has helped advance race relations compared with a year ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests
Experts Mull U.S. Role in Haiti After Cameras Leave
 Helene Cooper & Mark Landler
The United States has a history of either political domination or neglect in its backyard, and administration officials acknowledge that for Mr. Obama, striking the right balance in Haiti will be crucial.
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