Today’s News Links: 01-15-13

Posted on January 16, 2013 by admin

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Glenn Greenwald on Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: Accountability for Prosecutorial Abuse

Interview: John Cusack – What is an Assange? part 2

Teenager Killed in Wave of Clashes with IDF Across Palestinian Territories

Report Finds Insecticide “Unacceptable” Danger to Bees

Egyptian Residential Block Collapses, Killing at Least 23

Congresswoman Introduces ‘Aaron’s Law’ to Honor Swartz

Op-Ed: Don’t Make the Same Anti-Terrorism Mistakes in Mali

Ken Salazar Leaves Contested Legacy as Obama’s Interior Secretary

Today’s News Links: 01-14-13

Posted on January 14, 2013 by admin

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Truth-digger of the Week: Adam Swartz

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

A Second Amendment World, Pentagon-Style: For Washington, There is No Arms Control Abroad

Iran Unable to get Life-Saving Drugs Due to International Sanctions

Glenn Greenwald: The Bombing of Mali Highlights All the Lessons of Western Intervention

The US – Alongside Saudi Arabia – Fights for ‘Freedom and Democracy’ in the Middle East

The Inspiring Heroism of Adam Swartz

Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes

Congo’s M-23 Conflict: Rebellion or Resource War?

Yoko Ono, in Albany, Raises her Voice Against Hydraulic Fracturing [Fracking]

Interview: John Cusack: What is an Assange? part 1

Teargas, Clashes at Funeral for Bahraini Protestor

The CIA’s Double Standard on Secrecy

Editorial: Down with Argo – The Year’s Worst Best Picture Nominee

Top Tip if You’re Going Out in Beijing: Don’t Breathe

Today’s News Links: 01-11-13

Posted on January 11, 2013 by admin

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Even a Military Judge Recognizes What Many Progressives Denied: Bradley Manning was Mistreated

Video Clip: Does Spying on Americans Protect the US?

‘Idle No More’ – No More Just for Canada

Learning to Love Torture: How ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Brought Back the Bush Administration

Why are Bob Woodward’s White House Sources – or Woodward Himself – Not on Trial Next to Bradley Manning?

Gitmo Go-Round: No Solution in Sight on 11-Year Guantanamo Anniversary

William Blum: The Death of Bin Laden, Revisited

Oliver Stone, Obama, and the War in Vietnam

Amnesty International on Guantanamo: In His Second Term, Obama Must Correct Human Rights Failure

Former Detainees: “Guantanamo Creates Deep Wounds”

Dear Human Rights Watch: Time to Stand with Human Rights Defenders

Will Obama’s ‘War on Weed’ Really Ride Roughshod Over American Voters?

Farmers Demand an Appeal in Monsanto GMO Case

3 Kurdish Women, Including Co-Founder of PKK Separatists Assassinated in Paris ‘Execution’

CIA Drones Have Killed at Least 40 People Since Beginning of 2013 – Up to 11 of Them Civilians

France Launches Air Strikes on Mali

Op-Ed: New Director John Brennan Must Kill the CIA’s Drone Assassination Policy

Op-Ed: Wall Street Thanks You for Your Service, Tim Geithner

Halting Anti-Muslim Violence

A Guantanamo Prisoner is Buried as New Details About His Death Begin to Surface

Journalists Targeted in Greece Bombings

Haiti: 3 Years on From Earthquake, Housing Situation Catastrophic

Today’s News Links: 01-08-13

Posted on January 8, 2013 by admin

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The American System of Suffering, 1965 – 2014

Archives: Chris Hedges – War and Occupation, American-Style

6 Strikes, 8 Days, 35 Dead: The US Drone War in Pakistan is Back

Glenn Greenwald: By Nominating John Brennan, Obama is Ignoring War Crimes

Bradley Manning Ensured Leaks Would Not Harm US, Lawyer Insists

Bradley Manning Will be Credited 112 Days for Horrendous Stay at Quantico

Canada: Indigenous Protest Movement Highlights Deep-Rooted Injustices

Germany Begins Deployment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey

Federal Judge Orders NYPD to Stop Using Stop-and-Frisk Tactic in the Bronx

How the Steubenville Case Exposes the Cruelty Faced by Rape Survivors

China and Japan Step Up Drone Race as Tension Builds Over Disputed Islands

Warrantless Wiretapping Wins Again

Saudi Arabia: 11 Women Still Held After Protest

Disney’s Creepy New Surveillance Tool

Today’s News Links: 01-07-13

Posted on January 7, 2013 by admin

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Glenn Greenwald: John Brennan’s Extremism and Dishonesty Rewarded with CIA Director Nomination

Chris Hedges: State of Fear

The ‘War on Terror’ – By Design – Can Never End

Glenn Greenwald on Chuck Hagel and Liberals – What are the Priorities?

Tough Questions for John Kerry

US Drone Attacks ‘Counter-Productive,’ Former Obama Security Adviser Claims

In Guantanamo, the Government is Still Making Up the Law as it Goes Along

Bahrain Under Pressure Over Refusal to Reconsider Activists’ Sentences

Apocalypse When? The US Intelligence Community’s New Year’s Wish

Bolivia Slams US Over ‘Irrefutable Evidence of Meddling’

Bahrain Jails Anti-Regime Activists, Overturns Appeals

China Censorship Row Escalates to Rare Street Protest

New York City Moms and Babies Tested for Marijuana

Today’s News Links: 01-03-13

Posted on January 3, 2013 by admin

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White House Wins Fight to Keep Drone Killings of Americans Secret

Obama Signs NDAA 2012 Without Objecting to Indefinite Detention of Americans

Interview with Adrian Lamo on Bradley Manning: ‘I Knew My Actions Might Cost Him His LIfe’

Archive – Global Warfare: Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran

Video Clip: Glenn Greenwald Discusses Obama’s Record on Civil Liberties, War, Detention, Drones

Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike Until ‘Freedom or Death’

Bahrain Update: Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Said Yousif Al-Muhafdhah Extended

Human Rights Watch: Bahrain – Charges Against Rights Defender Raises Concern

The Snoop State is Still Alive and Well [Anybody Notice?]

Today’s News Links: 01-02-13

Posted on January 2, 2013 by admin

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Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights

Interview: Chris Hedges Explains How Entire Regions Within the US are Treated Like Exploited Colonies

Glenn Greenwald: France’s Censorship Demands to Twitter are More Dangerous Than ‘Hate Speech’

The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee

2012 in Review: State Surveillance Around the Globe

Op-Ed: The Delhi Gang Rape – Look Westward in Disgust

Argentina: Military-Era Sentences Another Historic Step Towards Justice

First Civilian Sentenced for Argentina Dirty War Crimes

2012 in Review: Biometric ID Systems Grew Internationally – and So Did Concerns About Privacy

FBI Classified Information About Occupy Wall Street Assassination Plot

Lisa Jackson’s Legacy at the Environmental Protection Agency

Why the Self-Defense Doctrine Doesn’t Legitimize Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Rwanda’s Rampaging Rebel Force

Human Rights Watch to India: Rape Victim’s Death Demands Action

Kuwait: Security Forces Attack Protestors

RT Interviews Stephen Cohen: ‘US, Russia, Plunging into New Cold War’

Editorial: Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World is Wrong

This is How the Food Industry Makes Americans Fat and Hungry

Poland Bans Genetically Modified Maize and Potatoes

8 Huge Corporate Handouts in the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Bill

Today’s News Links: 12-30-12

Posted on December 30, 2012 by admin

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Revealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

Video Clip: Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity Here at Home

Foreign Policy Magazine’s ‘Distinguished’ Global Thinkers

NYPD for Hire: How Uniformed New York Cops Moonlight for Banks

RT Interviews Oliver Stone: ‘US Has Become an Orwellian State’

2012 in Review: EFF’s Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law

Truth-digger of the Week: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Op-Ed: There is No American Left

Archives – Video Clip: John Pilger’s ‘The Quiet Mutiny’

Murdered Gang Rape Victim Cremated in India as Politicians Vow Action

Starving for Recognition: The Plight of Palestinian Political Prisoners

Amnesty International: Armed Intervention in Mali Risks Worsening the Crisis

Afghans Angry at US Soldiers Who Drove Away in the Night, Leaving Rent Unpaid

Saudi Arabia Uses Capital Offense of ‘Apostasy’ to Stifle Debate

Disastrous Relief for Haiti

Netflix Blacks Out the Revolution

From MLK to Occupy, the FBI Resides on the Wrong Side of History

Doing Hard Time for Peace

Jailed Qatari Poet to Appeal Life Sentence

‘Black Box’ or ‘Spy Box’ US Regulators Want to Make Car Data Recorders Mandatory

Today’s News Links: 12-29-12

Posted on December 29, 2012 by admin

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GOP and Feinstein Join to Fulfill Obama’s Demand for Renewed Warrantless Eavesdropping

Hagel, the Lobby, and the Limits of Power

Cindy Sheehan: War Control

Video Clip: Representative Dennis Kucinich on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Robert Fisk: A Word of Advice on the Middle East – We’ve Reached the ‘Tipping Point’ with Cliches

Robert Fisk: Will We Once Again Just ‘Move On’ from the Murky Conduct of MI6 and the CIA?

Ready to Eat: The First GM Fish for the Dinner Table

Op-Ed: Need for Straight Talk from US Defense Department

‘West Abandoned Africa, Manipulates It’

Today’s News Links: 12-27-12

Posted on December 28, 2012 by admin

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Chris Hedges on NDAA 2013: The Final Battle

Glenn Greenwald on Obama’s Gift to al-Quaida; Support for Tyranny; and FBI Monitoring of Dissent

When US Drones Kill Civilians, Yemen’s Government Tries to Conceal It

Bahrain: A Brutal Ally

What Bahrain Said: Get Lost

The Rule of Illegal Law in Israel: Another Upcoming Eviction in East Jerusalem

CIA’s Global Response Staff Emerging from Shadows After Incidents in Libya and Pakistan

NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision Mysteriously Stripped from Bill

Op-Ed: US Attempting Regime Change in Malaysia: Fact or Fiction?