Today’s News Links: 03-27-12

Petition: Tell Village Voice Media to Stop Child Sex-Trafficking on Backpage.com

Petition: Bring the Troops Home from Afghanistan

Bahrain Center for Human Rights: Detailed Report

Iraq War Criminals Line Up to Wage War on Iran

NATO War Crimes: SOS From Emergency in Afghanistan

Iraqi Woman Who Was Severely Beaten in California Home, Dies

What NPR Means by “Reporting”

US Acted to Conceal Evidence of Intelligence Failure Before 9/11

CIA Withholds Documents Using Authority it Does Not Have

The Hybrid Rules of Drone Warfare

Human Rights First: Addressing Abuses at Apple Facilities in China

Struggle in the Chinese Communist Party

Israel Cuts Contact with UN Rights Council to Protest Settlements Probe

ALEC Climate-Change Denial Bill Passes in Tennessee

Coal: How a Mountain Dies

Planning Reform: A Giant Gamble with Economy and Environment

Judge to FDA: Remove Superbug-Breeding Antibiotics from Animal Feed

Everybody’s a Target in the American Surveillance State

Death Penalty: “Dont Let Those Who Kill Turn Us Iinto Murderers”

Obama Uses Nuclear Summit to Issue New Threats Against North Korea and Iran

Another Death Row Debacle: The Case Against Thomas Arthur

Today’s News Links: 03-26-12

The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties are Saved and Lost

Obama Takes Bush’s Secrecy Games One Step Further

Koch Brothers vs. Health Reform

The New Jim Crow

Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War

Above the Drone War, Voices for Peace

Child Soldiers: A Symptom of War, Poverty, and Imperialism

Kony 2012 – Propaganda for US Militarism in Africa

America’s Obsession with Israel and Iran

The Myth of Freedom in the Land of the Free

Major “Pink Slime” Producer Closes Plants

De-militarizing the “War on Drugs”

Selling War From 1917 to 2012

The March to Jerusalem: March 30, 2012

French Muslims Fear Stigmatization After Killings

Europe No Sanctuary for Afghan Asylum-Seekers

Villages in Oil-Stained Nigeria Delta Sue Royal Dutch Shell Over Oil Spills

Is THIS The Accountability We Were Promised?

Do Children Harvest Your Food?

Today’s News Links: Weekend of 03-23-12 .. 03-25-12

This weekend I attended the United National Antiwar Coalition Conference in Stamford, Connecticut. I learned an amazing amount of new things, as well as met some really inspiring people. Please visit UNAC’s webpage here to learn more about this amazing group of individuals and organizations.

 

I will have lots of new material to post later this week on the Links page, updates coming soon.

 

Sign the Pledge to Resist FBI, Grand Jury Repression

Petition: Tell the US Senate to Stop Big-Oil Subsidies

“Lesser Evil” Thinking: The Strange Case of the Liberal Ostrich

On the the Next War! Exporting Democracy via Cruise Missiles

Trayvon Martin and the Myth of US Post-Racialism

Palestine: “We Exist in a Lesser Category”

One Year Later, Libya is Still a Mess

Video Clip on Sex Slavery: A 21st-Century Evil

NATO: US Plans No Charges Over Deadly November Strike in Pakistan

Australia: How Money Power Works Down Under

The JOBS Act: Dumbest “Bipartisan” Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall

‘Stability’ Trumps Democracy in Egypt

International Assoc. of Democratic Lawyers Opposes Military Force Against Syria and Iran

US Gov’t Agencies Store Data on Americans Who Have No Connection to Terrorism

Vermont Yankee, States Rights, and the Future of Nuclear Power

Senegal’s Game of Thrones

The Pope’s Controversial Visit

Documents Show NYPD Infiltrated Liberal Groups

 

Today’s News Links: 03-22-12

Petition: Tell Pres. Obama to Stop Supporting Keystone XL

Obama to Fast-track Southern Portion of Keystone Pipeline Project

Panetta’s Terrorism Error

The Ordeal of Hana Shalabi: Medical Urgency and Spiritual Defiance

Martial Law by Executive Order

The UN’s Sketchy Record in West Papua

Sergeant Bales Faces 17 Charges of Murder

HRW to Mali: Coup Leaders Must Respect Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights report in Bahrain: Tear Gas or Lethal Gas? 

UN Condemns Mali Coup, World Banks Suspends Aid

World Water Day 2012: US Report Not Optimistic About the Future of Water

More Evidence of Torture and Rights Abuses from Bahrain

Monsanto Named Worst Company of 2011 by Natural Society

Parents Scramble to Fill School Budget Gaps

Malawi: Arrests Signal Deteriorating Rights Environment

Today’s News Links: 03-21-12

Petition: Just Label It! Tell the FDA We Have the Right to Know if our Food is Genetically-Modified

DHS Turns Over ‘Occupy’ Files to Truthout

Inside the NSA’s Most Extensive Secret Domestic Spy Center, Located in Utah

HRW to Armed Opposition in Syria: End Kidnappings, Forced Confessions, Executions

Ex FBI-Informant: It’s all About Entrapment

To Break the Bonds of Injustice

What if George W. Bush Had Done That?

Honduras and the Obama Administration

The [Larry] Summers of our Discontent

Thousands of Anti-Nuclear Protestors Face Police in India; 200 Arrested

Russia: New Wave of Detentions at Peaceful Protests

The Drunken Logic of Eco-Tourism

Chevron, Transocean Charged in Brazilian Oil Spill

Dozens Homeless in Southwest Mexico After Earthquake

Zimbabwe: 6 Sentenced for Watching Arab Spring Video

The Strange Case of the Toulouse Shooter

Today’s News Links: 03-20-12

Criminal Justice Petition: Proesecute the Killer of Trayvon Martin [different petition than the one posted yesterday]

Walking While Black: Florida Police Resist Calls to Arrest Killer of Trayvon Martin

Resistance Builds to NATO’s Threat of Permanent War and Nuclear Dominance

Ironies in American Justice and Political Cheerleading

Interview: Al-Jazeera Journalist Explains Resignation Over Syria and Bahrain Coverage

Syria: Between Revolution and Imperialism

Latest Afghan Torture Report Casts Shadow on US Transfer Plans

Police State Blues

Chicago NATO Protests Hit with Red Tape

Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Fresh Water

The Perils of Fracking

Fracking: Activists Cry Foul Over EPA Water Test Announcement

Jeffrey Sach’s Grab for the World Bank

China Stereotypes Debunked

Shell Game: Oil Company Sues Environmental Groups Over Arctic Drilling

Throwing Money at the Pentagon: A Lesson in Republican Math

Victims of U.S. ‘Drug War’ Mount as Media Yawns

Today’s News Links: 03-19-12

Petition: Demand the Arrest of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin’s Killer

Murder is Not an Anomaly in War

Afghanistan and American Imperialism

Try a Little Nuclear Sanity

The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror

Kony: What’s to be Done?

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail

Despite Ban, US Forces Transferred Afghans to Facility Known for Torture

Looking into the Future: Super-PACs and Congress

Human Rights Watch: Kuwait Must Lift Newspaper Suspension

Beijing’s ‘Black Jails’

State Department Fires Iraq Whistleblower

Video Clip: Is the US Gulf Oil Spill Truly Settled?

Misuse of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Charge is Repulsive

NATO ‘Covers Up” Libyan Death Shame

Opinion: Fewer Animals in Laboratories is Better for All of Us

Occupy a Country, Massacres Will Follow

Doubling Down on 9/11

Today’s News Links: 03-18-12

Amnesty Int’l to Spain: Public Spending Cuts Must Not Affect Human Rights

‘Kony 2012’ Hides US Support for Oppressive Ugandan Regime

Why Jason Russell and ‘Kony 2012’ are Such a Tragedy

George Clooney and the Problem of Selective Moral Outrage

Democracy Imperiled in the Maldives

Dozens Arrested at Protest Commemorating Occupy Wallstreet Anniversary

Nigeria: Boko Haram Talks in Doubt after Mediator Quits

The People’s Resolution: A Sane Response to the Iranian ‘Crisis’

5 Freedom-Killing Tactics Police Will Use Against Protestors in 2012

5 Politicians Pushing the US to War with Iran

The Bureaucracy of War

Rights Activists, EU, Outraged After Belarus Executes 2 Men Accused of Metro Bombing

HIV-Positive Schoolchildren in Tanzania Forced to Wear Red Ribbons to Identify Infection Status

Mitt Romney and Neo-Imperialism

Reports Point to India as Major Contributor to Increasing Intensity of Global Arms Race

New York’s ‘Gay Ban’ During St. Patrick’s Day Parade is Un-Irish

Today’s News Links: 03-17-12

US: Turning War-Fear into Warfare

The US Media’s Coverage of ‘Americans vs. Afghans’

Kandahar Massacre Suspect Robert Bales Transferred to US

Al-Jazeera Exodus: Channel Losing Staff Over ‘Bias’

Our Immoral Drone War

NYPD: Shredding the Constitution

“Dealing” with Iran

Brazil to File Charges Against Chevron for New Oil Leak

How Mossad Justifies Murder

Human Rights Watch to Canada: Vote No on Migrant Detention Bill That Punishes Victims

Monsanto Maize Banned in France

Former Iran Captive Denounces Prison Cruelty in America

Hollywood’s Double Standard on Darfur

Today’s News Links: 03-16-12

Petition: Tell Sec. of State Clinton to Reveal Destination of US Weapons

Petition: Tell Pres. Obama to Provide Transparency on US Targeted-Killing Program

Which Matters Most: AIPAC or Rachel Corrie’s Death?

Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush

Israel is the Largest Violator of US Arms Export Provisions

Investigation Around Libya: NATO’s Coverups

The Crisis is West Papua: Will Obama Do the Right Thing?

Update on Bahraini Hunger-Striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Human Rights Watch: Tibetan Monasteries in China Placed Under Direct Rule

Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning over PATRIOT Act Abuses

The Private Prison Industry: Resistance Isn’t Futile

Human Rights First: Scenes from a Bahraini “Courtroom”

Analyst Warning: UN-Backed Congolese Army Drive Could Displace 100,000