Kitty Stapp

Despite ISIS Ascendancy, U.S. Public Wary Of War

Only 30 percent said the U.S. military campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria is going very well or fairly well, according to the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.

Kitty Stapp
Par Kitty Stapp

NEW YORK - As the Islamic State, known variously as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh, consolidates its hold over parts of Iraq and Syria to the degree that it has in many ways become a functioning state, the U.S. public remains divided over any intervention involving ground troops, a new survey shows. Sixty-three percent said they approve of the U.S.

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Press Freedom Groups Denounce NSA Spying On Al Jazeera Bureau Chief

“This is the reality under which we live. Government agencies are relatively autonomous and attempts to control them are ludicrous. »

Kitty Stapp
Par Kitty Stapp
A slide dated June 2012 from a National Security Agency PowerPoint presentation bears Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan’s photo, name, and a terror watch list identification number, and labels him a “member of Al-Qa’ida” as well as the Muslim Brotherhood. It also notes that he “works for Al Jazeera.” Courtesy of the Intercept

A slide dated June 2012 from a National Security Agency PowerPoint presentation bears Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan’s photo, name, and a terror watch list identification number, and labels him a “member of Al-Qa’ida” as well as the Muslim Brotherhood. It also notes that he “works for Al Jazeera.” Courtesy of the Intercept NEW YORK - Ahmad Muaffaq

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Police Killings Challenge U.S. “Exceptionalism”

“Once it was called slavery, then Jim Crow, then slavery by another name, then the new Jim Crow. Yet we all know this unequal and brutal treatment of Black people must end.”

Kitty Stapp
Par Kitty Stapp

A protestor hangs a banner atop the flagpole of the Oakland Police Department Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. Demonstrators blocked streets around Oakland police headquarters and chained themselves to the front of the building Monday to protest recent grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men in

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Money Pipeline Flowing Between U.S. Congress And Big Oil

The oil and gas industry gave, on average, 13 times more money to members of the House of Representatives who voted in support of the pipeline without Presidential permit or environmental review.

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Par Kitty Stapp

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, center, accompanied by Eric Cantor., right, and  Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, to discuss President the Keystone XL pipeline.  Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP NEW YORK - With battle lines sharpening over the stalled

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