The latest headlines from : Common Dreams

Even the most radical conservative can agree with Noam Chomsky on at least one thing. "No one in their right mind wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons." But to Chomsky, nonproliferation requires reciprocal action, rather than international condemnation...His conclusion is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons out of a rational fear for its national safety because of the systematically threatening posture of the United States and Israel.

...[T]he Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism...In the field of sociology, [a] conservative member...won passage of an amendment requiring the teaching of "the importance of personal responsibility for life choices" in a section on teen suicide, dating violence, sexuality, drug use and eating disorders..."The topic of sociology tends to blame society for everything..."

WASHINGTON -
"Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S.
politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however
objectionable, by Israel.

Omsyatte adjusts her green school uniform and
climbs gingerly on to a desk at the front of the classroom. The shy
12-year-old holds up a brightly coloured picture and begins to explain
to her classmates what she has drawn.

For Karl Rove's legions of liberal detractors – who did not manage to
lay a hand on him while he was in power – it has been a case of too
little, too late.

There have been two features that regularly mark the history of U.S.
public schools. Over the last century, our education system has been
regularly captivated by a Big Idea -- a savant or an organization that
promised a simple solution to the problems of our schools.

Sometimes in the fight for health reform or tighter rules on Wall Street, President Barack Obama unleashes his podium-pounding, “yes we can” side.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two months after
the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44
billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is only 49 percent
funded, UN officials said today.

Israel
has imposed a full closure of the occupied Palestinian territory of
West Bank, announcing that no one will be allowed in or out for 48
hours.

A burgeoning netroots movement has emerged from what its
founder characterized as "ranting on my Facebook page."

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote
about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam
perpetrated by Congressional Democrats:  all year long, t

The federal court that touched off a furor in 2002 by declaring the
words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to be an unconstitutional
endorsement of religion took another look at the issue Thursday and
said the phrase invokes patri

BAGHDAD  - Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul.

SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of Arab-American cultural organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area have launched a grassroots organizing campaign designed to send a clear message to Washington: that they, along with every other Arab in America, are in fact Arab, and not white.<

Companies across Europe are hoarding permits to produce greenhouse gas emissions worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.

The surplus credits have been amassed from over-allocation of permits to pol