Today’s News Links: 04-25-12

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Petition: Shell Oil Must Own Up and Pay for Damage It Caused in the Niger Delta

The NSA is Watching You

Debating Syria

Amnesty International Urges Ghana to Meet International Prison Standards

Report: US Soldiers Promised Massacre Days Before Bales’ Alleged Rampage

Wars of Attrition

Israeli Military Chief: Iran Will Not Decide to Make Nuclear Weapons

Neo-Cons’ New Lie

Iraq’s Road Back From Oblivion

What a Difference a Day [of Iran Talks] Makes

The Dalai Lama on Peace, War, and the Aloha Spirit

Bradley Manning Trial to Begin September 21

Opinion: The Return of Tahrir?

Liberia’s Former President Charles Taylor to Face Verdict in ‘Blood Diamonds’ Trial

The Real Roots of Sexism in the Middle East [It’s Not Islam, Racism or ‘Hate’]

Jose Rodriguez – Crime Boasting for Profit

In the Fields of America’s ‘Green Prison’

West Africa Bloc to Send Troops to Coup-Hit Guinea-Bissau

Breaking Up with ALEC is Hard to Do for Johnson & Johnson

Hundred Protests at Dept. of Justice to Demand Probe of Alleged Racism in Mumia abu-Jamal Conviction

Fracking’s Best Friends

10 of Thomas Friedman’s Dumbest “Big Ideas”

What Lies Across the Water: The Story of the Cuban 5

Moving Too Fast on Cyber-Security?

Today’s News Links: 04-24-12

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Petition: Tell the EPA to Limit Carbon Emissions From Power Plants

Bahrain Cracks Down on News Around Formula One Races

More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance

Koch Brothers Exposed

Israel Approves 3 West Bank Settlements

Amnesty Int’l: Muslims are Discriminated Against for Demonstrating Their Faith

Amnesty Int’l: Bangladeshi Authorities Must Account for Deaths Amid Spate of Disappearances

Drones for Urban Warfare

Old Wounds, Ethnic Rivalries Fuel Sudan War Fever

Lawyers for WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning Urge Dismissal

Islamophobia Ideologues: Dealing With the Real Anders Breivik

When Discrimination Hits Home

The Shame of Nations: US Military Spending

ACLU Report: Racial Profiling Redux

Gulf Spill Criminals

South Sudan Needs Long-Term Support to Build on Fragile Gains

Today in Fear-mongering: Iran Terror to the South!

Afghanistan: Has the Pentagon Learned Nothing?

How America Came to Torture its Prisoners

Video Clip: My Neighborhood [a look at the life of a Palestinian boy]

Turkey Says Israel Not Welcome at NATO Summit

UCLA Professor Warned About Israel Views

Inconvenient Truths About Tar Sands Action

Mad Cow Disease Found in California; No Human Threat Seen

Three More Secret Service Employees Fired Over Prostitution Scandal

Today’s News Links: 04-23-12

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Petition: Protect the Mississippi River From Coal Pollution

The Globalization of Hollow Politics

Shell’s Wildly Inaccurate Reporting of Niger Delta Oil Spill Exposed

Obama’s Dismal Civil Liberties Record

Sudan and South Sudan Close to War

Amnesty Int’l: Bahrain Court Delays Toying with Hunger-Striker’s Life

Critics Blast ‘Surreal’ Bahrain Grand Prix

Government Revives Plan for Greater Data-Sharing Between Agencies

Public Outcry Over Fracking in New York Breaks State Record

Zimbabwe to NATO: Why Always Pursue Peace, Democracy Through War?

Machine-Made News

Federal Judge Complicity

Occupy Earth Day

Why Gaza’s Healthcare Fails Thousands of Individuals

Egypt Cuts Off Gas Supplies to Israel

Defying Image of Drive-by Celebrity, Sean Penn Settles Down in Haiti for Long Term Role

Dutch PM Mark Rutte Resigns After Failed Austerity Talks

Pentagon Wants Spies in Offices Around the Globe

New York: Drone Protestors Pre-emptively Arrested Before Reaching Hancock Air Force Base

US Isolated at Summit of Americas

USDA to Let Industry Self-Inspect Chickens

Today’s News Links: 04-22-12

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UN to Investigate Plight of US Native Americans for First Time

Red Cross Presses for International Action to Protect Medics Targeted in War Zones

Unplugging Americans From the Matrix

2 Years After BP Spill, Gulf Residents Live in Fear of the Future

Thousands Displaced by Sudan Border Crash

Bahrain’s Epic Fail

Bahrain: Activist Dr. Ala’a al-Shahabi Arrested

Bahrain Grand Prix Fails to Drown Out Angry Protests

“Loyalist” Soldiers Move Into Mali’s Rebel-Held North

From the Field: Amnesty International Mission to South Sudan

Obama May Not Attend Rio Earth Summit

Wal-Mart’s Mexico Probe Could Lead to Departures at the Top

Watchdog Group Says Mexican Government Should Investigate Wal-mart Bribery Charges

US Congressman Rohrabacher Denied Entry to Afghanistan for Karzai Criticism

Today’s News Links: 04-22-12 [early edition]

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Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

No-Fly List Court Battle Includes 3 California Residents

Nothing is Immune to the Ocean

Army Denies Clemency Bid to ‘Whistle-blower’ in 2010 ‘Thrill Killings’ of Afghan Civilians

Right-Wing Billionaires Push Israel Agenda in 2012 Elections

The World’s Largest Open-Air Gulag

Associated Press Wins Pulitzer with Series About NYPD Muslim-Surveillance Program

The Inconvenient Truth the Pentagon Would Prefer We Didn’t See

Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front 

Opinion: Does One Holocaust Justify Another?

Opinion: Republican Presidential Win Would Give Free Rein to Neocon Ambitions of Empire

A Slick Trick on the NDAA; Don’t Be Fooled

Today’s News Links: 04-21-12

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Surveillance State Evils

Bahrain Grand Prix to Go Ahead Despite Protestor’s Death

Sudan’s Return to War?

Letter of Solidarity from a Palestinian Prisoner to the People of Bahrain

Czechs Stage Massive Anti-Government Protest

Man Who Tried to Bomb Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Has Yet to Be Charged with Terrorism

BP Blamed for Ongoing Health Problems

Beating the Drug War Addiction

Brazil’s Native Awa Tribe Face Genocide by Logging Companies

Earth Day 2012: It’s Not About Tree-Hugging, This is About How We Live

6 Things You Need to Know About CISPA

India: Flexing Its Military Muscle

Today’s News Links: 04-20-12

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Dalai Lama Laments Latest Tibetan Self-Immolations

Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard

Rage Against the Formula One Machine

Bahrain: ‘Reforms’ Starting to Appear Hollow as Violations Continue

Vermont Legislature Votes to Overturn Citizen United

West African Group Calls Summit on Mali, Guinea-Bissau

WikiLeaks Fights Banking Blockade

Why is the New York Times Peddling Iran-Islamophobia?

Julian Assange Interviews Hezbollah’s Nasrallah

The Horrific Ramifications of the Gulf Oil Spill

Virulent Strain of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Killing Children in Vietnam

On National Pot Day, A Speech President Obama Should Give

NATO in Crisis and the Agenda for Chicago

Argentine Leader Moves to Nationalize Oil Shares

New York Pays Tribute to Christopher Hitchens

Riot Erupts in Montreal Between Police and Protestors

Iraq Calls Turkey ‘Hostile State’ as Relations Dim

Today’s News Links: 04-19-12

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Video Clip: The Latest Outrage in the US Occupation of Afghanistan

America’s Drone Sickness

If Tarek Mehanna is Guilty So Am I

Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry [part 3]

Bahrain: Investigation Reveals Indiscriminate Use of Tear Gas

Bahrain Braces for Wave of F1 Protests

Bahraini Authorities Escalate Crackdown on Human Rights Activists Ahead of F1

Amnesty Int’l Urges Mexico to Fully Investigate Murder of Man Who Denounced Police Abuse

Amnesty Int’l: Libya’s NTC Must Investigate Death of Another Tawargha Man Under Torture

They are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders

The Significance of Indigenous Mobilizations

Farmers Demand Feds Probe Monsanto and Dow Over Crops and Chemicals

Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts its History

Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?

Azawad: The Lastest African Border Dilemma

Two Senior Secret Service Officers Identified in Colombia Prostitution Scandal

Prison Labor as the Past – and Future – of America’s “Free Market” Capitalism

The New Math: Guillen, Cuba, and Treyvon Martin

Panetta Continues to Defend CIA Drone Strikes in Yemen

Non-Violence: Its Role in Preventing Genocide

Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena

The Under-cover Persecution of American Muslims

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary Confinement

EU Gives US Go-Ahead for ‘Big Brother’ Snooping

Today’s News Links: 04-18-12

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Petition: Tell Corporations to End Their Support of CISPA

ALEC Disbands Task Force 

Brigitta Jonsdottir: Why I’m Suing the US Gov’t Over NDAA

Punishing Cuba 50 Years On

America Muslim Alleges FBI Had a Hand in His Torture While He Was Detained in UAE

Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists

Amnesty Int’l: Libyan Rendition Case Shows It’s Time for UK to Come Clean

Attacks on RT and Assange Reveal Much About the Critics

Amnesty Int’l: Mali Urged to Release Top Officials Arbitrarily Detained

Arms Race: India to Launch New Longer-Range Missile

How the Goldman Vampire Quid Just Captured Europe

Share-holders’ Pay Rejection at Citigroup a Wakeup Call to Boards

White House Condemns US Soldiers’ Photos with Body Parts

Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Activist Sentenced to 4 Years in Jail After Secret Trial

Half of Britain Now Officially in Drought

Bahrain ‘Unable to Guarantee’ Safety for Formula One

20 Years After the Flames: The Rodney King Beating and the L.A. Riots Part 1

The Enigma of Bhutan

US: How the ‘War on Women’ Became Mainstream

Afghans Revolted by Photos of US Troops Posing with Dead Bodies

Former EPA Chief Sounds Alarm on Chemical Security

Can Russia Kick Heroin?

Three Secret Service Agents to Leave Over Colombia Scandal

Today’s News Links: 04-17-12

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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders: Stop the Nuclear Industry Welfare Program

Off the Radar: Important Issues the Candidates Won’t Raise in 2012

Israel’s Latest Over-reaction

Israel to Free Palestinian Detainee as Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger-strike

The Syrian Rebels’ Man in DC

Inquiry Points to Wider Secret Service Scandal Involving up to 21 Women

Female Chinese Rights Activist Jailed Under Inhumane Conditions

African Union Suspends Guinea-Bissau Over Coup; Talks Under Way

Taking Uncle Sam for a Ride: How Pakistan Makes Washington Pay for the Afghan War

How the New York Times Got it Wrong on the FDA’s New Antibiotics Ruling

Homeland Security’s ‘Pre-Crime Screening’ Will Never Work

Working to End Racial Profiling: ACLU to Testify Before Senate Judiciary

US in Denial: Watershed in Afghanistan

Chevron Misleading Investors Over Ecuador Environmental Judgement

CISPA: Big Brother is NOT Your ‘Friend’

Education Without Borders

No Taxes, No Travel: Why the IRS Wants the Right to Seize Your Passport