Today’s News Links: 08-23-12

Truthout Interview with Chris Hedges: Why Revolt is All We Have Left

A World of Hillbilly Heroin: The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal

The United States’ Clandestine Armies Plunge us Deeper into Violence

Naomi Wolf: US Instigating Violent Crackdown on Whistleblowers, Dissent 

Whatever Happened to Iraqi Oil?

Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital with Money from Families Tied to Salvadoran Death Squads

What “Liberal Hollywood”?

Book: Student ‘Subversives’ and the FBI’s ‘Dirty Tricks’

Israel: Trial Shows Military Justice System Fails Victims of Gaza Conflict

The Bizarre, Unhealthy, Blinding Media Contempt for Julian Assange

Cost of Repairs for Cars with Bad BP Gas Can Vary Widely

One Week in the Life of a Police State [this article is over a year old, and since it was written, things in the “land of the free” have only gotten worse]

Thailand: Army Chief Interfering in Investigations of Political Violence

Nuclear Cover-up Threatens Great Lakes Region

Today’s News Links: 08-21-12

Petition: Tell NBC – War Isn’t Fun and Games

US Drone Strikes Target Rescuers in Pakistan – and the West Stays Silent

Terrorism is Terrorism

Imperial Reconstruction and its Discontents: A Guide to Disaster at Home and Abroad

Glenn Greenwald: Human Rights Critics of Russia and Ecuador Parade Their Own Hypocrisy

NYPD Secret Spying on Muslims Led to No Terrorism Leads or Cases

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Dies of Undisclosed Illness

United Church Approves Controversial Boycott of Some Israeli Products

Today’s News Links: 08-19-12

Perfecting Illegality: Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad

Chris Hedges: AIPAC Works for the 1%

The New Totalitarianism of Surveillance Technology

Archive: Annals of National Security – Torture at Abu Ghraib

Julian Assange Urges US to End War on Whistle-blowers

In Police Pat-Downs, Many Women See Sexual Overtones

Striking South African Miners Face Ultimatum from Company

South African Miners’ Families Back Julius Malema’s Call for Nationalization

The New Robber Barons: How Taxpayers Subsidize CEOs’ Multimillion Salaries

Amidst Protest, Construction Begins on KeystoneXL Pipeline in Texas

Jewish Settler Attacks on Palestinians Labeled ‘Terrorist Incidents’ by US

Are Drones Any More Immoral Than Other Weapons of War?

Failure of the Day: “Legitimate Rape” Rarely Leads to Pregnancy, US Senate Candidate Claims

Opinion: What’s Wrong at The Guardian?

Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Exposed by New Evidence

Shell Spending Millions of Dollars on Security in Niger Delta, Leaked Data Shows

Canada Mulls China’s Massive Oil Takeover Bid

Today’s News Links: 08-16-12

Criminalizing Dissent

Video Clip: Hollywood and the War Machine

Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World?

Secrecy Creep: The Punishment of Whistleblowers

Julian Assange Asylum Offer Leads UK and Ecuador into Diplomatic Standoff

The Sham “Terrorism Expert” Industry

Video Clip: Tavis Smiley Interviews Erin Brokovich on the Water Crisis

Julian Assange Asylum Offer Leads UK and Ecuador into Diplomatic Row

 “WTO Kills Farmers” – India Free Market Reforms Trigger Farmers’ Suicides

Chalk a Sidewalk, Go to Jail

Taiwain Tentatively Embraces Same Sex Marriage

Congress the Enabler: The Pentagon Can’t Kill a M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can [part two]

Today’s News Links: 08-13-12

Video Clip: NSA Whistle-blower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance

NBC’s War for Fun and Profit

If the Sikh Temple Had Been a Muslim Mosque

12 Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan

How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy

Corruption: America’s 47 Million Hungry Mouths are Just Another Corporate Cash Cow

Amnesty International: Palestinian Hunger-Strikers Detained in Israel Must be Treated Humanely

Human Rights Watch: Lebanon Must Stop ‘Tests of Shame’

Chile Must Investigate Police Violence Against Mapuches

Human Rights Watch: Greece Must Halt Mass Migrant Round-ups

Americas: Time and Time Again, Indigenous Rights Trampled for Development

DR Congo: Threats Against Human Rights Defenders Must End

Nigeria: Oil Spill Investigations a ‘Fiasco’ in Niger Delta

Palestine: The Battle for Area C

Why Romney Insulted the Palestinians

The Earthquakes and Toxic Waste of Ohio’s Fracking Boom

Casino Mogul and GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson’s Connections in China Under Probe

Why is Mali Spiraling Out of Control?

Monsanto’s Quiet Coup: Will Congress Limit Scope and Time for GMO Reviews?

Paraguay’s Bitter Harvest: Monsanto and Rio Tinto Reap Benefits From Coup Government

Former US Officials Call for Bachmann to be Replace on Intelligence Committee 

6 Things You Should Know About the $21 Trillion the World’s Richest People are Hiding in Tax Shelters

Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

Racial Profiling at Logan Airport Undermines Security and Freedom

Today’s News Links: 08-12-12

Petition: Stop Tanzania’s Masai from Being Evicted from their Land to Allow Sport Hunting 

US: Stratfor Emails Reveal Secret, Widespread TrapWire Surveillance System

TRAPWIRE: Surveillance Cameras Around the Country Being Used in a Huge Spy Network

NDAA on Trial: White House Refuses to Abide with Ban Against Indefinite Detention of Americans

Video Clip: Chris Hedges – “Hope” Speech

The Right’s Brittle Heroes

Why the Reaction is Different When the Terrorist is White

ACTA Killed: MEPs Destroy Treaty in Final Vote

Amnesty International: Bahrain Must Free Prisoners of Conscience After ‘Travesty of Justice’

Oman: Intolerance of Dissent Mounts as a Dozen More Activists Sentenced

Jerry Boykin: Romney’s New Muslim-Bashing Pal

Today’s News Links: 08-10-12

4 Decades On, US Begins to Address Agent Orange Contamination in Vietnam

Tomorrow’s Blowback, Today? Washington Puts its Money on Proxy War

Sanctions on Iran: ‘Ordinary People are the Target’

Drones: When Philosophers Join the Kill Chain

In the Shadow of Paraguay’s Coup

Congress the Enabler: Defense Companies Use Congress to Save Their Profits, No Matter What [part one]

What Makes Our NDAA Lawsuit a Struggle to Save the US Constitution

Video Clip: Controlling the Web

Solitary Confinement: Torture Chambers for Revolutionaries

Combating Islamophobic Violence

Soul Searching for the Roots of White Supremacist Terror in the US

Poland to Probe Into Clandestine CIA Prisons

Adam Mueller, Journalist and Founder of CopBlock.org Faces 21 Years in Jail After Reporting High School Police Brutality

The Takedown of Tupac Shakur [Note: This is a1997 article from ‘The New Yorker’ magazine. A little outside the usual range of material for this page. However, the article not only talks about the background, life, and murder of an artist who continues to inspire a generation to speak out. It also discusses some history of the Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, and corruption within the record industry. Over 10 years later, much of its content remains relevant.]

Today’s News Links: 08-09-12

America’s Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes

Racially-Motivated Violence and US Foreign Policy: Unintended Causation?

Struggling to Secure Indigenous Rights

 Blackwater to Pay Fine to Settle Arms Charges

Blackwater 3.0: Rebranded ‘Academi’ Wants Back in Iraq

Take the World Online Whistle-blowing Survey

Unrestrained Savagery

Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Becomes Everyday Reality

“You Will be Assimilated”

Google Fined Over Safari Privacy Violation

Today’s News Links: 08-06-12

Petition: Save Human Rights Whistle-blower Bradley Manning

The CIA and a Blowback World

The Science of Genocide

In Hiroshima’s Shadows

‘Hiroshima is a War Crime that Haunts My Family 67 Years On’

Hiroshima Marks Anniversary of Atomic Bombing

‘Occupy Nukes’ Day of Action Remembers Hiroshima and Calls for End to Nuclear Power

Sikh Temple Shooter Part of Growing Trend of Anti-Sikh Violence

Wisconsin Temple Killer was Neo-Nazi who Left Army in Disgrace

Urgent Appeal: Arrest and Ill-Treatment of Human Rights Defender Zainab al-Khawaja

Innocent Deaf Woman Tased and Jailed for Days Without Interpreter in Tacoma

Today’s News Links: 08-05-12

What We Know About the Sikh Temple Shooting in Wisconsin So Far

Hail and Farewell: The End of the American Empire

On Assassinations: Obama the Pioneer

Shell Game in the Arctic: How to Bring Big Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of our Oceans

Bahrain: Calls for the Immediate Release of Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab

The US, NATO, and Afghanistan: “Death by Ally”

China/Philippines: Standoff at Scarborough Shoal

Video Clip: Muslim Arrests Remembered, Protested at Albany Mosque

Fact Sheet: Albany’s Aref-Hussain FBI “Sting” Case

Video Clip: US Military Scandal – A Culture of Rape?

Belgium Film on Streen Harassment Strikes Chord Across Europe

New Flotilla to Set Sail for Blockaded Gaza

Why a Major Food Organization is Teaming Up with Monsanto and Friends to Block Your Right to Know What’s in Your Food

Future is Assured for Death-Dealing, Life-Saving Drones

Urban Farms or Myths?

10 Questions on the Bulgaria Bus Attack

Minors Getting Life Sentences