Today’s News Links: 08-03-12

Life in the American Slaughterhouse: Police Shootings Echo Nationwide

Mitt Romney: Evangelical Warrior

Government Heightens Fears of Those Pushing NDAA Lawsuit

Why the NSA Can’t be Trusted to Run US Cybersecurity Programs

Uncovering License Plate Scanners: The Next Big Thing in Government Tracking

Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretapping Powers

LA Professor ‘Wakes Up to Hate Mail’ for Linking to Anti-Zionist Material

The Looting and ‘Cooking’ of Nigeria’s Crude

Music Video: “Ballad of the Black Gold” by Reflection Eternal

Kenya: Judicial Harassment of Environmental Rights Defender Ms. Phylis Omido

Today’s News Links: 08-02-12

Petition: Daniel Ellsberg’s Petition to Free Bradley Manning

US Africa Command [AFRICOM] Debates TomDispatch

Chris Hayes on Elite Failure

Gore Vidal: ‘America the Great…Police State’

Anaheim: Disneyland Under Siege

Human Rights First Policy Paper: 10 Critical Human Rights Challenges for the Next American President

The Perversion of Scholarship

The A-Z of Gore Vidal

Virginia Lawmaker to Introduce Domestic Drone Regulation Bill

Cyber Attacks on Activists Traced to FinFisher Spyware of Gamma

Testimony Details Concrete Steps US Should Take to Address Bahrain Abuses

ACLU Report: ‘What We Know About License Plate Tracking, What We Don’t, And Our Plan to Find Out More’

The FDA’s Spying on its Own Scientists

The Force of Olympic Branding

Congress Wants to See Obama’s “License to Kill”

Church Denies Black Couple

Whistleblower Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program Sues NSA

FBI Agents Attempt to Interview Activists About Burlington Protests

 

Today’s News Links: 08-01-12

Extremism Normalized

Romney and Obama: 2 Peas in a Pod on Israel and Iran?

Top 10 Lies About Senate Bill 510 [Food Safety Modernization Act]

Video Clip: Did the US Cause Fallujah’s Birth Defects?

Video Clip: The Pentagon and Hollywood

Can the United Nations Help Itself From Under-writing Human Rights Abuses?

Human Rights Watch Report on Continuing Violence Against Rohingya Muslims in Burma

Human Rights Watch: US, UK Should Criticize Arrest of Dissidents in the United Arab Emirates

US Silence on Continued Bahraini Repression

Today’s News Links: 07-31-12

Everything Most People Think About the Budget is Wrong

Thousands Converge in Washington DC to Launch National Movement Against Fracking

The Curative Power of the Internet

5 Scientific Conclusions About Cannabis that the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know

India Power Outage: 600 Million People Affected by One of the World’s Biggest Blackouts

Cargill Admits Buying Palm Oil From Illegally Cleared Forest

Today’s News Links: 07-28-12

Police Violence, Radicalized Indifference, and a Hunger for Justice in Anaheim

Chris Hedges on Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’ – Communities Destroyed for Profit

Protectors of Wall Street

Colorado Shooting is About More Than Gun Culture

Barack Obama, Changeling

San Francisco Stop and Frisk: Mayor Lee Uses Aurora Shooting to Justify Controversial Policy

Democracy and Slaughter in Burma: Gold Rush Overrides Human Rights 

Most Likely to Attack Iran

The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs

Book Excerpt: Howard Zinn – “To Disagree is to be Put on the Enemies List”

The West in Flames

Displays of Force and the Militarization of the Olympics

Did the San Francisco Police Department Get Away with an Execution?

Senate Intelligence Committee Adopts a Dozen Anti-Leak Measures

Canadian Mining Giants Devastating Indigenous Mexican Communities and Environment

Skype Makes Chats and User Data More Available to Police

Ron Wyden and 11 Other Senators Demand Answers on Government’s Secret Surveillance of US Citizens

How WikiLeaks Revitalized Brazil’s Media

Today’s News Links: 07-25-12

Petition to Obama and Sec. Clinton in Support of Peaceful Solutions in Syria

Dianne Feinstein’s “Espionage”

The ‘Value’ of Tom Friedman

Why is the World Ignoring Myanmar’s Rohingya?

Study: NYPD Consistenlty Violated Basic Rights During Occupy Protests

Islamophobia and the Republican Party

Did the NYPD Break International Law by Suppressing Protest?

Are We Headed for a Global Food Crisis?

Video Clip: Anaheim Police Attack Residents, Try to Buy Footage

Video Clip: Where Are Somalia’s Missing Millions?

Anaheim Officials Scramble to Contain Public Anger Over Police Shootings

US Military Treatment of Juvenile Detainees Under International Scrutiny

The Walmart Model and the Human Cost of Our Low Priced Goods

The Rights Groups That Lost the Plot on Ecuador and Julian Assange

Scotland to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages

Today’s News Links: 07-24-12

Noam Chomsky on Post-Legal America

Video Clip: Police Brutality in Anaheim Sparks Outrage After 2 Latinos Shot Dead and Demonstrators Attacked

Officers Tried to “Buy” Cellphone Footage of Anaheim Police Brutality

The Obama GITMO Myth

The Feds Violated the Constitution – But the Administration Won’t Say How

International AIDS Conference Sparks Protest of Obama Trade Policies

Famous Spanish Jurist to Lead WikiLeaks-Assange Defense Team

Houston, We Have a Problem: No Known Technology to Deal with Fukushima

Israel: What Occupation?

You Can’t End AIDS Unless You End the Drug War

Right-Wing Food Companies

US Commander Accused of Stalling Afghan Hospital Abuse Probe

Bachmann’s Teacher in Hate

Human Rights Watch: Oman Must Drop Cases Against Online Activists

Mexico’s Summer of Resistance

Today’s News Links: 07-22-12

The Drug War Has Spread to Africa – Here’s Why

Call it ‘Terrorism’

The Best Reporting on Detention and Retention Under Obama

The Dangerous Triumph of Israel’s Right Wing

Newest US Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Trolling

Spies in the Sky Signal New Age of Surveillance

Talking Palestine to Power

US Drone Assassinations Spark Civil Liberties Lawsuit

Assassination Nation

Super Rich Hiding Up to $32 Trillion Offshore 

UK: “The Police Like to Give the Impression That They’re the Biggest Gang”

The US in Egypt: A Fully Hedged Position

Japan Workers Told to Lie About Radiation

Video Clip: London – The Last Province of the Empire

Post-Apartheid Soweto: The Struggle Continues

India Seeks Action Over UAE Boat Shooting

Madagascar Army ‘Retakes’ Camp After Mutiny

US News Media to Be Monitored to Curb Leaks

Hey Monsanto, Don’t Mess with My Tomatoes’ Genes

Colombia’s Nasa Tribe to Put Rebels on Trial

A Farewell to Alexander Cockburn

America in Denial: We’re #29 [Out of 30]

Today’s News Links: 07-21-12

Journalism Versus Propaganda

High- Versus Low-Level Leaking

America Must Declare War on America

Video Clip: Will the Fight Against HIV/AIDS Ever End?

Will Ecuador Give Julian Assange Asylum?

Ruling Could Hurt Bradley Manning’s Defense in WikiLeaks Case

Interview: Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds

Federal Judge Orders Tennessee to Stop Blocking Muslims from Worshiping in New Mosque

3 Ploys the Department of Defense Uses When Their Budget is at Risk

Police Kill Suspect; ‘Occupy’ San Francisco Activists Falsely Linked

The True Costs of Mass Incarceration

Migration and Racism: A Southern European Perspective

Mitch McConnell and the Corporate War on Transparency

Singapore: Yale to Curtail Rights on New Campus

Fact Sheet: Why the US Needs to Clarify US Criminal Jurisdiction Over US Contractors Fielded Abroad

Today’s News Links: 07-19-12

Obama’s Killings Challenged Again

Video Clip: Attack of the Drones

Texas GOP: “No More Teaching of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’ in Texas Public Schools”

The Damascus Suicide Bombing

Abusive Steel ‘Sweatshop’ Returns

Report: South Asian Workers in New York City Often Exploited, Underpaid

Myanmar’s Broken Promises

End the Prison-Industrial Complex

Michele Bachmann’s Hateful Cronies

Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Privacy, Civil Liberties, Experts Win

‘Guernica’ at 75: Symbol of Art’s Triumph Over War

War on All Fronts