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Cindy Letchworth: Obama Steps Up For Wildlife

Some good news today. President Obama has halted measures that would eliminate Endangered Species Act protection for wolves in the northern Rockies. This memo, sent by Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was issued Tuesday to all agencies and execut…

GroundReport: First Post-Obama Attack In Pakistan Kills Al-Qaeda Members

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground.

By Abudlhadi Hairan

PESHAWAR– At least 18 people were killed in a suspected American missile attack in North Waziristan agenc…

Kirsten Gillibrand Pick Praised By Obama: “Wonderful Choice”

President Obama released a statement praising New York Gov. Paterson’s choice of Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the state’s vacant Senate seat:

“Governor Paterson made a wonderful choice in appointing Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Secretary Clinton…

Michael Ratner: On Closing Guantanamo: A Sisyphean Struggle

With the signing of yesterday’s executive orders to close Guantanamo and end torture, we are finally seeing the beginning of a reversal of some of the nastiest inhuman practices of the Bush administration. Yes, it may take another year to clos…

Bush’s ‘Puppet In Kabul’ Will Not Go Quietly: Patrick Cockburn

Hamid Karzai is fighting for his political life. He has often been written off as “the mayor of Kabul”, but he does not intend to go quietly just because the Pentagon has increasingly seen him as an obstacle to its plans for a “surge” or incre…

Caryl Rivers: Are We All Mutts Now?

There has been much ado, and rightly so, about the fact that Barack Obama is the first African-American president.

Little has been made of the fact that he is also the first half-black, half white president. This is significant because Barack…

Stephen Zunes: Daring to Hope on the Washington Mall

On Tuesday, I dared to hope.

I even felt a little patriotic.

I was among the two million people who assembled on the Washington Mall to witness the moment. I was willing to come all the way from California, pay the air fare — and leave th…

Leslie Harris: Freeing the Freedom of Information Act

On his first day in office President Obama unleashed the hounds, freeing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the restrictive bounds placed on its use by the Bush Administration and fulfilling a campaign promise with single stroke of his…