Today’s News Links: 11-23-12

Will President Obama Restore the Rule of Law in His Second Term?

Archive: Is Gideon Levy the Most Hated Man in Israel or Just the Most Heroic?

Obama Weaves Web of Deceit on Gaza War

California Gets Face Scanners to Spy on Everyone at Once

Prosecution of ‘Anonymous’ Activists Highlights War for Internet Control

Video Clip: Are US Corporations Exploiting Their Workers?

Video Clip: Desmond Tutu – Not Going Quietly

Morsi Decree Triggers Mass Protests in Egypt

Gaza Ceasefire Reports Fall into Uncertainty

Walk-outs, Protests Hit Wal-Mart Nationwide on Biggest Shopping Day of the Year

Op-Ed: Us Economy Depends on the Success of Wal-Mart Workers’ Black Friday Strike

One Billion Raise a Stink

Video Clip: How to Rob Africa

Torture Survivors Ask the UN: What’s the Point of Having Laws Against Torture if They Don’t Apply to the Powerful?

Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster

Rutherford Institute: It’s Time to Overhaul the TSA

Kaiser Permanente Advises its Customers Against GMOs

Wal-Mart Strike Goes Nationwide on Black Friday

Saudi Arabia Criticized Over Text Alerts Tracking Women’s Movements

Today’s News Links: 11-21-12

The ‘Both-Sides-are-Awful’ Dismissal of Gaza Ignores the Key Role of the US Government

5 Ways America Enables Israel’s Atrocities

Bus Explodes in Tel Aviv

Op-Ed: It’s the Palestinians Who Have the Right to Defend Themselves

Anti-Fracking Activists’ Secret War, with the World in Balance

Mr. President, You Have a Drone Problem

Monsanto Insurance: USDA Tells Farmers to Pay for Avoiding Troubles with Agro-Giant

Student to Fight High School Over Mandatory Microchip Tracking

NSA Refuses to De-Classify Obama’s Cyber-Security Directive

Detroit to Go Bankrupt in Less Than a Month 

Bahrain: Targeting Freedom of Belief in Order to Create a Sectarian Conflict to Control Public Protests

Black Friday Madness: Tent Cities Set Up to Buy Consumer Crap

Video Clip: Abby Martin on Israel’s War on Truth

 

 

Today’s News Links: 11-20-12

Chris Hedges: Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All

Obama’s First-Term Track Record on Civil Liberties

US Battles Iraq and Afghanistan Over Detention Without Charges

Richard Falk: The Latest Gaza Catastrophe

Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on Israel’s Operation ‘Pillar of Defense’

5 Lies the Media Keeps Repeating About Gaza

Getting Away with Torture

Gaza Conflict: Family’s 4 Children Buried as Bombardment Continues

Why I Refuse: On God/Love, Nonviolence, and Israel’s Military Occupation of the Palestinian Territories

One Year Later, Bahrain Reforms Remain Shallow Promise

Bahrain: Children as Young as 5 are Targets of Riot Police Excessive Use of Force

History is Repeated as the International Community Turns its Back on Gaza

BP Will ‘Kill Again,’ Former EPA Officials, Attorney Warn

DynCorp Gets $72.8 Million Contract Despite Shady History

Fighting Crime, But at What Cost?

An Open Letter to White America, Particularly White Youth

Today’s News Links: 11-18-12

Bloodbath in Gaza: Who Started It?

Civilians Under Attack in Gaza: A Photo Essay

Why Drones Stayed Out of Sight in the 2012 Campaign

Gaza: No Lessons Learned

The Light Doesn’t Get Much Greener Than This: Obama Administration Gives Israel the Go-Ahead to Escalate in Gaza

Hold Him to His Progressive Pledges: Make Obama Do It

America the Third World Nation in Just 4 Easy Steps

Texas Lawmakers Seek to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention, Criminalize Certain TSA Searches

Bahrain: Last Throes of a Desperate Regime

City of the Disappeared: 3 Decades of Searching for Guatemala’s Missing

SOA Watch Goes to Washington: Meeting with Denis McDonough About the School of the Americas [aka School of the Assassins]

Paramilitaries, Cronyism, and Corruption: Popular Democracy Under Attack in Haiti

“Messy” Wars, Love, and Torture

A New Middle East Agenda for Obama

Nonvoterz with Attitudez

Occupy the Prison Industrial Complex

Today’s News Links: 11-17-12

Stop Pretending the US is an Uninvolved, Helpless Party in the Israeli Assault on Gaza

Photos: Demonstrations in 50 Countries Around the World in Solidarity with Gaza

Global Anti-Israel Protests Staged as Fears of Gaza Ground Invasion Escalate

Video Clip – Oliver Stone: ‘Petraeus is No Hero’

New Ruling: Donald Rumsfeld Can’t be Sued for Torture

At Least 50 Children Killed in Egypt as Train Hits Bus

Will Obama’s Second Term See an End to the Failed ‘War on Drugs’?

Over 100,000 French Protestors Rally Against Gay Marriage, Adoption

Thousands of Spanish Police Officers March Against Austerity

Today’s News Links: 11-16-12

Dead Mothers, Teachers and Babies in Gaza; Yet Media Overwhelmingly Focuses on Rocket Fire into Israel

The Kill Team: How US Soldiers Murdered Innocent Civilians in Afghanistan

Documentary: Human Resources – Social Engineering in the 20th Century

The Secret Building Boom of the Obama Years

Bradley Manning Deserves Americans’ Support for Military Whistleblowing

Bodies for Ballots

Palestinian UN Envoy: Attack was ‘Deliberately Times to Torpedo the UN Vote’

Why are Americans So Easy to Manipulate?

Dennis Kucinich: Obama Administration Must Account to Congress for Targeted Assassinations

Monsanto and Genetically Engineered Food: Playing Roulette with Our Health

When BBC Ignores Israeli Murder of its Own Cameraman’s Baby, What Hope for Other Palestinians?

People of Japan Protest US Occupation After Military Related Rapes and Assaults

The Incestuous Relationship Between Bankers, Business, and Congress

Human Rights Watch to Israel/Gaza: Avoid Harm to Civilians

Morocco: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers

How BP’s Historic Deepwater Horizon Fine Will be Paid by the US Military

Human Rights Watch to Kuwait: Lift Protest Ban

US Not Impressed with Arab Spring Reaching Jordan?

Millions of Voters Demand Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

Black Friday Slips Into ‘Gray Thursday’ as Retail Giants Face Staff Backlash

Today’s News Links: 11-15-12

Obama’s Kill List Policy Compels US Support for Israeli Attacks on Gaza

Timeline of Israeli Escalation in Gaza and Israel’s History of Breaking Ceasefires

The End of the 2-State Illusion: Gaza’s Silver Lining?

Mega-Strike Hits Europe [Live Updates]

Archive: The Runaway General

The Political Trial of a Caring Man and the End of Justice in America

Decision Bombing? Israel’s ‘Election Attack’ Triggers Gaza War Spiral

Day 2 of Israeli Assault on Gaza

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Real Scandal Surrounding the Petraeus Resignation

Wal-Mart Workers Gear Up for Black Friday Strike; California Workers Announce Second Strike

Data Breach Raises Questions About NASA Policy at Issue in Recent Supreme Court Case

BP Admits to 11 Counts of Manslaughter

Torturer Lawsuits: Some Good News

Anonymous Warns Israel – ‘No-one Cuts Internet on Our Watch’

Saudi Demonstration Highlights a Year of Failure to Investigate Protest Deaths

The Endless Search for Justice in Guatemala

Racism and Classism in the Heart of America’s Capital

Israel Ignores International Law with Gaza Bombing; Enjoys US, UK Support

Infographic: Which ‘Natural’ Brands Voted Against Prop 37?

Today’s News Links: 11-14-12

Worldwide Protests Against Israeli Aggression in Gaza

Linguists Including Noam Chomsky Condemn ‘Reprehensible’ Gaza Coverage

LIVE STREAM: Gaza Under Attack

Hamas Says ‘Gates of Hell Opened’ as Israel Kills Military Leader in Gaza

FBI’s Abuse of the Surveillance State is the Real Scandal in Need of Investigation

The Wrong Petraeus Scandal

‘We Have No Future’ – EU Anger Unites Millions in Protest

Transcript of Glenn Greenwald’s Speech: ‘How America’s Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear’

Noam Chomsky: Impressions of Gaza

Obama’s Wars, Ver. 2: Pushing the Arc of Peace

Video Clip: General Strike Sweeps Europe as Millions Reject Austerity as Solution to Economic Crisis

US: Locked Away for Decades – The Plight of California’s Isolation Prisoners

Israel’s Latest Assualt on Gaza: The Lie of Who Started It

Europe Unites in Austerity Protests Against Cuts and Job Losses

Appeals Court Rejects Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld

Hemophiliac Iranian Boy Dies After Sanctions Disrupt Medical Supplies

Twin Dawns Over Europe

Ireland Abortion Policy Under Scrutiny After Woman’s Death

Election 2012: Privacy and Unfinished Business

Don’t Expect Obama to Take on Israel

How to Create and Capture ‘Terrorists’ in the Name of Security

Google Confirms: Government Surveillance is on the Rise

Israeli Who Revealed ‘Medieval-Style’ Torture of Palestinians Faces Virulent Backlash

Dominican Republic: Student’s Killing Underscores Urgent Need for Police Reform

UAE Adopts Tougher Cyber Laws

Condemned…Again: ‘Genocidal’ US Embargo on Cuba Slammed by UN for 21st Year

Today’s News Links: 11-12-12

Chris Hedges: Once Again – Death of the Liberal Class

Glenn Greenwald: Petraeus Scandal is Reported with Compelled Veneration of All Things Military

Veterans Day and a Caution Against the Cult of the Military

Bradley Manning Offers Partly Guilty Plea in WikiLeaks Case

Archives: “A Message to Troops, Would-Be Troops, and Other Youth” by Jeff Paterson

Obama’s First-Term Record of Militarism

Indigenous Protestors Against Guatemala Energy Company Targeted

Police Drones Prompt Privacy Concerns

Another Death in Bahrain as Human Rights Crisis Deepens

Kuwaitis Protest Voting Changes Ahead of Poll

Support for Greece’s Far-Right Golden Dawn Swells Amid Wave of Racial Violence

Portugese Protest ‘Mourns’ Merkel as German Chancellor Makes Pro-Austerity Visit

Saudi Arabia’s Growing Protest Movement

Australia to Hold Wide-Ranging Judicial Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse

Big Brother UK: 8 Million Children Recorded on Massive Secret Database

Today’s News Links: 11-08-12

Video Clip: Abby Martin’s Breaking the Set – Election Hangover; the Struggle for Bradley Manning 

Obama and Progressives: What Will Liberals Do with Their Big Election Victory?

Iran Sanctions Take Toll on Medical Imports

Beyond Bayonets and Battleships: Space Warfare and the Future of US Global Power

Gulf Squeeze on Opposition Brings Unusual Alarm from Western Allies

CNN Claims Iran Shot at US Drone, Revealing the ‘News’ Network’s Mindset

Victory for Pot Means Beginning of the End of Our Crazy Drug War

Amnesty International: Palestinian Activist Jailed for West Bank Protest Must be Freed

Palestinian Protestors Beaten by Abbas Supporters in Jerusalem