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U.S. Spends $75 Billion a Year on Intel
 Adam Entous
Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, disclosing an overall number long shrouded in secrecy.
Most US Doctors Want Public-Private Mix: Poll
 Gene Emery
Most U.S. doctors favor having both public and private options in a reformed healthcare system, a survey published on Monday said.
Morales: U.S. Planning Coups in Latin America
 Press TV
The Bolivian president has accused the United States of planning coups in Latin America after Washington reached an agreement with Colombia over military bases.
California Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
 Tom Abate
A growing number of Californians have been forced to work part-time jobs because they can't find full-time positions. The state unemployment rate, currently at 11.9 percent, doesn't ordinarily count such people, even if they are financially distressed, because the definition of unemployed requires that a person perform no work for at least a month.
Global Poll Sees Support for Spending Stimulus
 Adrian Croft
Most people around the world support significantly increasing government spending to counter the economic crisis, according to a 20-nation opinion poll released on Monday.
 Up to Two Million March to US Capitol to Protest Against Obama's Spending in 'Tea-Party'
 Daily Mail UK
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol Saturday, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
More US Democratic Opposition to Afghan War
 Dan De Luce
A powerful senator warned against sending more American troops to Afghanistan, signaling growing skepticism over the war within President Barack Obama's own party.
 Obama's Weekly Address: Losing Insurance Can Happen to Anybody
 White House Blog
The President discusses a staggering new report from the Treasury Department indicating that under the status quo, around half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years.
Latin America: "The More Guns, the More Violence"
 Emilio Godoy
Traffic in light weapons and small arms is one of Latin America's major disarmament concerns, because they fuel urban violence, especially in countries like Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil.
Can Obama Close the Deal?
 Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
President Barack Obama's leadership in the days ahead will determine whether his forceful health care address to Congress heralds the kind of sweeping change he promised while campaigning for the White House.
Caymans Gov't Cuts Beauty Contests Amid Deficit
 Danica Coto
The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks. The government is telling beauty pageant participants that all contests have been postponed until the economy improves.
The Biggest Prison Camp in the World
 PVNN Newswire
According to Amnesty International 300,000 people displaced by the fighting in Sri Lanka are held by the government in de facto detention camps. They cannot leave the camps, where conditions are "appalling" according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
Economic Downturn Slows Migration Flows - Report
 Robin Pomeroy
The global economic downturn has drastically slowed migration flows, as once-booming countries provide would-be immigrants with fewer opportunities for a better life, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
Mr. Zelaya Goes to Washington
 The Real News Network
The resistance to the military coup in Honduras has entered its 71st straight day of direct action in the streets of that country.
Obama Faces a Critical Moment for His Presidency
 Peter Baker
President Obama returned to the White House from his summer break on Sunday determined to jump-start his struggling presidency by reasserting command of the health care debate and recalibrating expectations that some advisers believe got away from him.
New Waves of Displacement in Colombia
 Charlie Devereux
As the Colombian army steps up its offensive against paramilitaries and guerrillas, more and more people are getting pushed off their land. Some have headed for other parts of Colombia while others have fled the country. GlobalPost looks at the issue from the Venezuelan and Colombian sides of the border.
Caribbean Islands Crack Down on Illegal Immigrants
 Mike Melia
First, riot police raided the slum with batons and pepper spray. Then authorities shut off the water and electricity. With an eviction order pending in the courts, police stand sentry outside the shacks belonging mostly to Dominican migrants.
White House Adviser Resigns Amid 9/11 Controversy
 CNN
Presidential adviser Van Jones is resigning after coming under fire for signing a controversial petition regarding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Obama's Weekly Address: Labor Day and Fair Rewards for Hard Work
 White House Blog
With Labor Day approaching, the President commits to rebuilding the economy so that a lifetime of hard work leads to a comfortable retirement, and explains his proposal to help to get there.
US Cuts Aid to Honduras
 Paul Richter
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cut off more than $30 million in aid to Honduras on Thursday in an effort increase pressure on the country's de facto government to restore democratic rule after a coup in June.
Afghan Opium Prices Drop to Eight-Year Low, Cartels Grow
 Jonathan Tirone
Afghan farmers, who produce more than 90 percent of the opium used to make the world's heroin, slashed poppy cultivation by a fifth after prices plunged to 2001 levels while narco-cartels increased their strength and influence in the country, a United Nations study shows.
CIA's Black Sites, Illuminated
 Greg Miller
The facilities were never meant to be "ordinary prisons," recently released documents reveal in meticulous detail.
Politics-Central America: Falling Out and Falling Apart?
 PVNN
The late June coup d'état in Honduras was a body blow to political integration in Central America. The institutions of the regional integration process have been incapable of reacting to the event, leaving the future of the process increasingly uncertain and trade agreements, themselves in poor shape, as the only viable way forward, experts say.
Doctors had 'Central Role' in CIA Abuse: Rights Group
 Agence France-Presse
A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.
49% Oppose US Justice Department Probe of Bush-era CIA
 Rasmussen Reports
Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters disagree with the Justice Department’s decision to investigate the treatment and possible torture of terrorists during the Bush administration, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Texas Boaters Recount Week Lost in Gulf of Mexico
 Associated Press
One of three Texas men who spent a week lost at sea says rescue helicopters flew over as the men stayed with their capsized boat in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cheney Calls CIA Probe Political
 Doug Thompson
The self-anointed attack dog for the failed administration of former President George W. Bush, which turned the Justice Department into a political hack agency, Sunday accused the Obama administration of playing politics with the investigation of prisoner torture.
U.S. Moves Toward Formal Cut Off of Aid to Honduras
 Reuters
U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said last week, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.
Ted Kennedy Laid to Rest
 Associated Press
Saturday's events marked the end of four days of public and private mourning meant to emphasize Kennedy's standing as the foremost liberal Democrat of the late 20th century, a family man and last heir to a dynasty that began in the years after World War II.
Barak Obama: Eulogy for a Lion
 White House Blog
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the United States Senate.
New Mexico’s Richardson Says His Administration is Vindicated
 Martin Z. Braun
A spokesman for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said the Democrat was vindicated after it was reported that the Justice Department wouldn’t file charges in a yearlong pay-to-play probe.
Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in US Justifying Torture
 Daphne Eviatar
Memos released on this week were the Justice Department's legal justifications for continuing to use those controversial interrogation techniques, despite a new law passed by Congress and an intervening landmark Supreme Court ruling that governs U.S. detentions overseas.
Hooded Men Slay 12 Indians in Colombia
 Libardo Cardona
Hooded men in uniforms without insignias on Wednesday shot and killed 12 members of the Awa indigenous group, including five children, on a reserve in a region plagued by the cocaine trade, authorities said.
FARC is Instrument of US Empire: Morales
 Katharina Wecker
The FARC are “the best instrument of the U.S. empire” as the fight against the guerrillas has become the pretext for U.S. military presence in Colombia, Bolivian President Evo Morales said this week.
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