In Iran, transsexuals, changing sex, have been changing Islam as well, under its still theocratic government.

Baltimore City plans to use a program to save green space, Project Open Space, to destroy Woodberry Woods so that Loyola College may build a sports stadium. Commentary by Green Party candidate for City Council Myles Hoenig.

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Back in the 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee was running wild. It was blacklisting journalists, militant unionists, authors, playwrights and anyone who opposed the Korean War or signed the Stockholm Peace Pledge to outlaw the atomic bomb.

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Thabo Mbeki, president of the Republic of South Africa, comments on the situation in Haiti after the removal of President Aristide.

Barbara Ehrenreich argues that women should own up to our abortions in her New York Times column. We can begin doing so by wearing a beautiful "I Had an Abortion" T-shirt made available by Planned Parenthood -- the T-shirt denounced by anti-abortion right-wing groups. The designer of the T-shirt, Jennifer Baumgardner, is also "making a documentary called I Had an Abortion that features women who don't regret having abortions."

SEIU President Andy Stern calls the Democratic Party "a party of stale ideas," expressing discontent that the activist base of the party will be in a weak bargaining position vis-a-vis the party elite after the election -- what if SEIU spent $65 million it's wasting on the John Kerry campaign on an initiative that would build up working-class bases of power independent of the Democratic Party?

There is no end in sight of the US occupation of Iraq. Phyllis Bennis and Karen Dolan of the Institute for Policy Studies report on the skyrocketing costs.

"How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me." An interesting take on media conglomeration from a billionaire media entrepreneur. Hmmm.