Today’s News Links: 09-09-12

America’s Refusal to Extradite Bolivia’s Ex-President to Face Genocide Charges

Inside the CIA Dossier on Iraq

Maldives: Coni Report Causes Predictable Outrage

Incarcerated Inside Israel

South Africa: Marikana Mine Shootings Revive Bitter Days of Soweto and Sharpeville

FinSpy: Software Intended for “Fighting Crime” is Being Used to Track Political Dissidents

Why Che’s Daughter Fights to Preserve His Image as Idealistic Revolutionary

Today’s News Links: 09-08-12

Blowback in Somalia

Bahraini Activists Document Crackdown on Protest

Video Clip: Bahrain’s PR Offensive

With Western Complicity, Bahrain’s Crackdown on Human Rights Continues

Time to Get Crazy

Video Clip: The Abortion War

Video Clip: Rachel Maddow Explains How President Obama Made the Use of Torture Legal

ACLU Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After Recording Alleged Misconduct

Tracking School Children with RFID Tags? It’s All About the Money

UK: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Attacks Government’s ‘Snooper Charter’

Apple, Drone Strikes, and the Limits of Censorship

California Legislator Promise to Affirm Free Speech Rights on Campus Earns Praise from Palestine Solidarity Activists

Walt Disney World: The Government’s Tomorrowland?

Today’s News Links: 09-07-12

5 Countries the US is Screwing Over

The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy

US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya

Video Clip: Fear, Anger, and Politics

Democrats Parade Osama bin Laden’s Corpse as Their Proudest Achievement 

In Defense of Bradley Manning

Fagaza vs. FBI: Eroding Democracy in 2 Dimensions at Once

Editorial: Security Theater and Racial Profiling

Human Rights Watch: Turkey Must End Impunity for State Killings, Disappearances

Today’s News Links: 09-06-12

Military-Industrial Complex: The Pentagon’s Bases of Confusion 

Who is Held to Account for Deaths by Drone in Yemen?

Obama Campaign Brags About Its Whistle-blower Prosecutions

‘Custodian of the Custodian’: Not All is as it Seems When it Comes to Vilification of the Syrian Government 

With Egyptian IMF Loan Request, Some Fear Loss of Revolution’s Gains

Ready to Cut Military Spending

US Points to Gross Negligence by BP

Can History Repeat Itself in Tibet?

Apple Rejects App that Tracks US Drone Strikes

Report Details Rising Police Brutality in Post-Coup Maldives

Infographic: Palestinian Home Demolitions

Today’s News Links: 09-04-12

CNN, Bahrain, and the Business of State-Sponsored News

Why Didn’t CNNi Air its Own Documentary on Bahrain’s Arab Spring Repression?

Desmond Tutu Expresses Outrage at Failing Politicians in South Africa

Amnesty International: Bahrain Must Free Prisoners of Conscience After Outrageous Verdict

India: Vedanta’s Human Rights Promises are ‘Meaningless’ and Hollow

SUNY Oneonta Looks Past ‘Black List’

Palestinian Right to Fight Occupation Not Only Moral but Legal, as Well

Balkans: Thousands Still Missing Two Decades After Conflicts

Today’s News Links: 09-03-12

Obama’s Justice Department Grants Final Immunity to Bush’s CIA Torturers

Election 2012 and the Media: A Vast Rightwing Conspiracy of Stupid 

Militarizing the Police and Killing Natives: How the US Drug War is Ripping Honduras

Steve Downs on the Albany Speech Police

William Hague is Wrong: We Must Own Up to Our Brutal Colonial Past

Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

Chris Hedges: Life is Sacred

Video Clip: Is the US War on Drugs Racist?

Video Clip: Has Justiced Evaded Rachel Corrie’s Family?

Desmond Tutu: Why I Had No Choice But to Spurn Tony Blair

One Crucial Step Closer to Seeing Tony Blair at the Hague

Thousands Swamp Bahrain Highways in First Legal “Freedom and Democracy” Demo in Weeks

Ray Bradbury was Investigated by the FBI for ‘Communist Sympathies’

In the Andaman Islands, Banned ‘Human Safaris’ Continue

Videos Capture Extreme Police Brutality by LAPD

Today’s News Links: 08-29-12

Petition: Tell the USDA We Say “No” To GMO Apples

Often Isolated, Iran Hosts Huge International Summit

Obama’s Warfare: From Power to a Policy

Correspondence and Collusion Between the New York Times and the CIA

The Echo Chamber of Campus Anti-Semitism

South Africa: Marikana is a Turning Point

How Your Phone Can Spy On You

Big Brother Watch’s Evaluation of the UK’s Communications Data Bill

Today’s News Links: 08-28-12

How the US and Israeli Justice System Whitewash State Crimes

Transcript of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

Chicago: School Children Mark King’s “Dream” Speech

Amnesty Int’l: Rachel Corrie Verdict Highlights Impunity for Israeli Military

Opinion: Rachel Corrie Verdict Exposes Israeli Military Mindset

9/11 Hearings: Hear No Evil

Video Clip: Permission to Engage 

The Secret Tie That Binds the US and Israel

Joseph Stiglitz: From Resource Curse to Blessing

America’s Deficit Attention Disorder

Bahrain: The Tear Gas Regime

India: Maharashtra State Revokes Monsanto’s Cotton Seed License

James Baldwin, Lisbeth Salander, and the Rise of the Police State in Some Children’s Schools

Film Review: Bahrain – Shouting in the Dark

 

Today’s News Links: 08-27-12

Fracking: The Gas Menagerie

Losing It in Washington: How Quickly Will the US Leave Afghanistan?

Battle Over NDAA’s Police-State Provisions Continue in Court

A Decade On, Some Justice for Rachel Corrie’s Family?

Rachel Corrie Death: Struggle for Justice Culminates in Israeli Court

Jacob Zuma Risks Removal Over Handling of Marikana Mine Killings

Lonmin Mine in South Africa Hit by Fresh Violence

Due Process Under Duress: Detaining Citizens Under NDAA

The NSA: Giving in to the Surveillance State

Convention Cities Try to Balance Security, Right to Protest

How Did Coal-Rich India End Up with Power Blackouts?

The Pacific Free Trade Deal That’s Anything but Free

Egypt Denies Entry to Bahraini Activist Maryam al-Khawaja

Twitter Argues 4th Amendment Defense Against Judge’s ‘Occupy’ Order

Opinion: London-Listed Firms Must Take Corporate Responsibility Seriously

Chris Hedges Reviews A Hologram for the King

The Fight Against SB-1070 and the Prison Industry in Arizona

Truth-Digger of the Week: Glenn Greenwald

Islamophobia in America

Today’s News Links: 08-26-12

Petition: Tell the Senate to Release the Real Book on Torture

The Bin Laden Raid Exposes the Obama Administration’s Selective Secrecy

Film Highlights the Temptations and Perils of Blind Obedience to Authority

Breaking the Arab News

Israel Breaks Silence Over Army Abuses

Israeli Inquiry into Rachel Corrie Death Insufficient, US Ambassador Tells Family

Video Clip: Will Colombia’s Protesting Workers Be Heard?

Video Clip: Are Big American Agri-businesses Too Dominant?

Tampa Releasing Inmates to Free Up Jails for RNC Protestors

NYPD: Muslims’ Conversations About Anti-Muslim Bias Justifies Spying on Muslims

Must the Poor Go Hungry Just So the Rich Can Drive?

NYPD Gunfire in Empire State Building Shooting Wounded All 9 Bystanders

The Pursuit of Julian Assange is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Justice

Creeping ‘Counter-terrorism’: From Muslims to Political Protestors

Human Rights Defender Profile: Ahlam Oun from Bahrain

Why Young South Africans are Turning Away from Mandela and the ANC

Highway Robbery: Giving Our Money to the Men with Guns

The Brawl Over Fair Trade Coffee