Today’s News Links: 04-16-12

Posted on April 16, 2012 by admin

Posted on April 15, 2012 by admin

Latin America Rebels Against Obama Over Cuba

What the Laws of War Allow

Globalism’s Perverse Rewards

Making Politicians Look Bad: A Fireable Offense

The Trial of the Century?

Protesting NATO in Chicago Will Be Too Late for Afghanistan

Bahrain Protestors Clash with Police at Citizen Journalist’s Funeral

Do Germans Have the ‘Right’ to Criticize Israel?

European Airlines Silence Palestine Protest

Voting in America: When is a Democracy NOT a Democracy?

Whats Going on in Guinea-Bissau?

Ai Weiwei: China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet

US Secret Service Scandal Overshadows Obama Trip

Monsanto Hooks Nepal on GMO Corn

Obama: A Casualty of the Cold War?

Barcelona: Austerity with an Iron Fist

US: Community Groups File Lawsuit for Better Coal Ash Regulations

Today’s News Links: 04-14-12

Posted on April 14, 2012 by admin

Human Rights Watch: Grand Prix Decision in Bahrain Ignores Abuses

Amnesty Int’l: Guinea-Bissau Coup Underscores Human Rights Concerns

Afghan War Whistleblower Daniel Davis: “I Had to Speak Out – Lives Are At Stake”

Leave Us Out of Another Middle East War

Opinion: The West Practices Double Standards in the Middle East

Gunter Grass was Right

The Thought Crime of Supporting Palestinian Rights

For the Sake of Europe, Sarkozy Must Stand Down

Former US Officials Investigated for Receiving Payments to Promote Designated Terror Group

How Bain Capital Made Us Fat

Colombia: US Secret Service Scandal Expands to Include Military

Al-Nashiri Hearing Spells Trouble for 9/11 Trial

Global North vs. South Over Food Financialization

It’s Official: There is a Muslim Exception to the First Amendment

Trayvon, Zimmerman, and the Blurry Line Between Conservative Media and the Far Right

Guantanamo: First Amendment Lawyer to Challenge Closures

Guinea-Bissau Mai Party Rejects Transition Plan

America’s Gas Entitlement Program

President Kabila of DR Congo Considers Arresting Bosco Ntaganda for War Crimes

Today’s News Links: 04-13-12

Posted on April 13, 2012 by admin

The Real Criminals in the Tarek Mehanna Case [includes transcript of Tarek’s powerful sentencing statement]

Who’s Watching Who? And Why?

The Summit of the Americas, Wikileaks, and the Failed War on Drugs

The Irrationality of the Case Against Iran’s Nuclear Program

Bloodshed Feared as Bahrain F1 Grand-prix Given Go-ahead

Starving for a Cause

US: The State as an Instrument for Sexual Repression

Chaos and Cholera: A Lesson From Haiti

North Korea’s Rocket Launch Fails as World Condemns Action

Feds Ready Whistleblower Trial

The Assange Case Means We Are All Suspects Now

Kony 2012: Invisible Agenda – Covering up the Theocratic Nightmare

Camp GLOW: Help Young Women in Northern Benin Learn Essential Skills This Summer

Sudan to Dominate First Ever African Security Forum

US and Pakistan at Impasse Over Drone Strikes

Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Drone Activist Denied US Visa

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

A Short History of Unintended Consequences from NATO’s War in Libya

Military Seizes Power in Mali as Libya Fallout Spreads

Amnesty Int’l: Saudi Arabia Must Release Prisoner of Conscience Mohammed Saleh al-Bajaday

Amnesty Int’l: Nigeria Must End Police Intimidation of National Human Rights Commission

8 Major Corporations Divest from ALEC

Internet Provider Promises to Put Your Privacy First

Today’s News Links: 04-12-12

Posted on April 12, 2012 by admin

The Obama Administration’s Disturbing Treatment of Whistleblowers

Guantanamo Judge’s Ruling Avoids Issue of Secret Testimony

Training Terrorists in Nevada: US Aid to Iranian Group Linked to Scientist Assassination

Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster

Legal Debate Stirs Over Basis of US or Israeli Attack on Iran

How the Drug War Hurts Everyone

Colombia: Obama’s Bloodiest Betrayal?

The Man the State Department Wants Silenced

Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, pt II

US Pentagon Releases Training Manual from Bush’s Torture Program

Witness to the Prosecution

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Bahrain’s Political Prisoners

Syria and the Usual Suspects

The Long, Hot March of Climate Change

The Hypocrisy of the US-UK Extradition Act

Chomsky’s Occupy

Surveillance of American Muslims: A Tale of Three Cities

Salah Case Exposes the Questionable Tactics of UK’s Pro-Israel Lobby

10 Important Facts About the Koch Brothers

Don’t Trust Corporate Charity

Punishment and Profits: Immigrant Detention

Mali Interim Leader Threatens “Total War”

Who Owns the Palestine Solidarity Movement?

April 17th is Palestinian Prisoners Day

Today’s News Links: 04-11-12

Posted on April 11, 2012 by admin

Labor Organizer Who Exposed Dangerous Working Conditions is Found Tortured, Killed

Human Rights Watch: Bangladesh Authorities Must Investigate Killing of Activist Aminul Islam

A Question of Human Rights: Keeping the F1 Racing Series Out of Bahrain

13 Ways the Government Tracks You

Video Clip: 10 Years Since the Venezuelan Coup

Wells-Fargo’s Prison Cash Cow

Barney Frank Slams Allen West’s ‘Communist” Accusations

Indonesian Earthquake Triggers Panic But No Tsunami

Trayvon Martin Shooter Charged with Murder

The Myth of the ‘Knowledge Economy’

A Primer on Domestic Drones: Legal, Policy and Privacy Implications

Israel’s Free Speech Aversion

Colonialism, Exploitation, and Why Nations Fall

Drones Overhead

Interview with Felicia Langer on Gunter Grass’s Poem

Monsanto Sued for Poisoning Farmers

Ultra-Conservative Heartland Institute Requests Ban on Peter Gleick

Teen Pregnancies Highest in States with Abstinence-Only Policies

Whose Religious Freedom?

Guantanamo Judge to Rule on Allowing al-Qaeda Suspect to Testify About CIA Torture

China Braces for Next Act in Leadership Drama

America’s Forgotten POW: Bowe Bergdahl

State Attorney General Examining Controversial NYPD ‘Stop and Frisk’ Program

The Facts About US Corporate Taxes

Alleged Child Pornographer Added to FBI’s Most-Wanted List

Today’s News Links: 04-10-12

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin

Petition: Move to Amend Citizen’s United – Corporations are NOT People!

The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning

The Afghan Syndrome

U.S.’s Shameful Bahrain Policy

Jailed Bahraini Activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s Life in Danger

The Military State: Know Thy Enemy

Gunter Grass, Israel, and the Crime of Poetry

The Suicidal State and the War on Youth

Syria’s “Rogue Islamist” Opposition: The New Lie in the Campaign for Regime Change

Verdict in Rachel Corrie Lawsuit Postponed

The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children

The Hollow Point Men

Arms Down

Los Angeles Sheriff Endorses Report Recommending Swift Closure of Infamous Jail

The Business of Cancer

Thailand: Two Years On, No Justice for Political Violence

Word Games: Removing ‘War’ From the History Books?

CIA Wins Fight to Keep British MP’s in the Dark on Rendition

How Canada Exports Death and Disease to the Developing World

THE US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico is a Deadly Failure

Why American Teachers Need More Freedom

Tunisia Urged to Investigate Police Violence Against Protestors

Today’s News Links: 04-09-12

Posted on April 9, 2012 by admin

Empire’s Ways of Knowing

Obama Targets Journalists

The Civilian Massacre in Yemen the US Neither Confirms or Denies

Suharto, Indonesia, and Threats From a Peace Activist

Obama Turns Super-Hawk

7 Rules for Recording Police

Deadly Pakistan Avalanche Renews Calls for Glacier’s Demilitarization

Bail for Tulsa Shooting Spree Suspects Set at Over $9 million

The Real Healthcare Debate

US Commandos Can Raid Afghan Homes – And Ask Permission Later

Privacy in the Digital Age: Is the 4th Amendment Still Relevant?

The Causes of the Financial Crisis

Siemens to Pay for Corrupt Financial Practices in Greece

What is Causing Uganda’s Children to Nod to Their Deaths?

California’s Unregulated Fracking Problem

Netflix Creates Pro-SOPA Super-PAC

Today’s News Links: 04-08-12

Posted on April 8, 2012 by admin

Good Friday, Torture, and Rattlesnakes

Rendition Ordeal Raises New Questions About Secret Trials

Egypt and US “NGO’s” – History Shows Some Level of Suspicion is Warranted

US Film-Maker Repeatedly Detained at Border

Peter Van Buren: Joining the Whistleblowers’ Club

Bahrainis Rally in Support of Hungerstriker

A Farewell to Mike Wallace

The Tiny Mexican Newspaper Leading the Quest for Truth in the War on Drugs

UNCTAD Shows Signs of Spunk Again

Nuclear: Fighting the Legacy of Enrico Fermi

Kony 2012 Part 2: License for Imperi al Conquest

In Defense of Gunter Grass

Our Men in Iran? The US and the MEK

Bahrain: Opposition in Dire Need of Media Attention

West Targets Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Work

Iran Faces Steep Demands Prior to Key Nuclear Talks

Hosni Mubarak’s Former Spy Chief, Omar Suleiman Enters Egypt’s Presidential Race

Remembering the Bahr el-Baqar Massacre [this article is 2 years old, but the story remains the same]

Today’s News Links: 04-07-12

Posted on April 7, 2012 by admin

The Politics of Palestine

‘Shouting in the Dark’ : Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Uprising Against US-Backed Rule

“War on Drugs Has Failed,” Say Latin American Leaders

The History of Regime Change: Putting Syria into Perspective

Egypt: Military Impunity for Violence Against Women

Mali Junta: Transition Promised “Within Days”

Human Rights Watch: Yemen Transition Needs Accountability, Security Reform

Video Clip: Posturing in the Pacific

Opinion: Chamberlain Murder – No Justice for Former Marine

North Sea Gas Leak: Experts Assess Impact of Ongoing Accident

Son of Frack-enstein

Americans Want Out of Afghanistan, Politicians Want to Ignore It

The Oakland Paradox: Obama, Weed and Guns

Twitter, the FBI, and You

Minority Report: Era of Total-Surveillance Zooms in on America?

The Afghan Disaster – Wait ‘Til the War Really Comes Home

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