(Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Thanks to everyone who has sent information about their  upcoming events. If your club, organization or local business will be holding activities or events in our community during the upcoming week or if you would like to announce personal events such as engagements, weddings,[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Dahr Jamail MARFA, Texas, (IPS) – Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in[Read More…]

Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Nomination for President in Denver. (Photo: BarackObama.com) Remarks of Senator Barack Obama "The American Promise" Democratic National Convention August 28, 2008 Denver, Colorado As prepared for delivery *** To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center To paraphrase a popular TV commercial, free speech is “priceless.” As protesters and delegates gather for this year’s national political conventions — Democrats in Denver starting Aug. 25, Republicans in St. Paul Sept. 1 — that’s a constitutional principle[Read More…]

Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) – Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– White House Conference Center Briefing Room 12:49 P.M. EDT MR. SNOW: Hello. The President this morning had a good meeting with the Iraqi Vice President, Adil Abd Al-Mahdi. Among other things, the Iraqi Vice President noted that the ongoing security plan in Iraq is going, as he said,[Read More…]