Today’s News Links: 02-25-12

Petition: Protect Dr. David Klein’s Academic Freedom

Video Clip: Egyptians Combat State Media Propaganda

China’s Effort to Cut Tibet Off From the Rest of the World

A Criminal For Witnessing: A US Activist’s Deportation from Bahrain

Potential Food Crisis, Drought in Sahel

Despite Calls for Departure, UN Will Not Be Leaving Haiti Any Time Soon

Deepwater Horizon Victims Versus BP

The Economics of Incarceration: The US Prison-Industrial Complex

Guatemala: Speaking Out on the Genocide of Indigenous Women

Prioritizing Reproductive Health, Empowering Women and Girls

Britain Leads Dash to Search for Oil in War-Torn Somalia

US Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb

Interview: Afghan Energy Wars

The Crime of War Itself

Today’s News Links: 02-24-12

Petition: Overturn Citizens United 

Petition: Tell TransCanada to Stop Landgrab for Rejected Keystone XL

Six Questions Reporters Should Ask Anyone Advocating Military Action Against Iran

The Pentagon’s Amnesia-Producing Propaganda

Occupy Movement to Hold National Conference in Philadelphia

Movement Grows to Revoke NDAA

US: The REAL Defense Budget

On the Anniversary of the Japanese Internment in America, Let History be a Lesson

The Slide to War

Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protestors and Not of Banks

Deadliest Day in Afghanistan’s Qur’an Protests

Video: Myanmar Villagers Protest Eviction

Interview on Book ‘Thomas Friedman: The Imperial Messenger

Amnesty: Poland Must Investigate State Role in US Secret Prisons, Rendition

Afghans Fleeing War Find Misery in Urban Slums

Attacking Iran Makes No Sense, But Netanyahu Might Do It Anyway

Amnesty: Tunisian Official’s Rhetoric Undermines Human Rights

Polk Award Awarded to Reporters who Exposed CIA/NYPD Illegal Surveillance of Muslims

Don’t Close the Gate on Endangered Species Protection

Today’s News Links: 02-23-12

Petition: Tell General Motors to Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Israel’s Decision to Release Khader Adnan in April is Insufficient

The Campaign to Keep Millions of Americans Away from the Ballot Box

Families of Slaughtered Children to Sue CIA

Sheldon Adelson: The GOP’s Dream: A Billionaire with an Agenda

Apple and China: Outsourcing Repression?

Conference Calls for Urgent Action in Somalia

Saving Khader’s Life and Legacy

Study: Hepatitis C Now Killing More Americans Than HIV

BDS: Power of the People at Work

Amnesty Int’l to Government of Mali: Stop Bombing Civilians

Interview: Assad and the Sectarian Game

What Really Happened in the ‘Yom Kippur’ War?

Close Guantanamo Bay Prison Now

Fighting Censorship on Principle

Silencing the Critics

Say No to Militarism 

Today’s News Links: 02-22-12

Petition: Urgent Humanitarian Assistance Needed for Displaced Afghans

Petition: Tell Republicans to Stop Censoring Women

Why Israel ‘Freed’ Khader Adnan

“Who Killed Che?” Interview part one and two

Wal-Mart’s War on the American Food System

The News on Syria: Information or Propaganda?

One Year Later: The February 20 Protest Movement in Morocco

Assuming the Worst About Iran

Dear Obama: Corporations Dont Need Tax Breaks

Amnesty Int’l Calls on Dominican Republic to End Police Violence

Food and Water Watch: Why Ban Fracking?

White House Refuses to Reveal Ties with Monsanto

Connecticut Muslim Leaders Demand Info on NYPD Yale Surveillance

The NSA and Anonymous

 

Today’s News Links: 02-21-12

Iran, Israel and the West: Some Home Truths

Egypt: Systemic Failure to Rein in Security Forces

Real Reasons Behind Today’s Gas Wars

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and the War on Terror

Afghanistan: Burning of Qur’ans on U.S. Military Base Leads to Protests

2012: The Year of Change for Sierra Leone – and Africa

With Single-Candidate Elections, is Yemen on the Path to Democracy?

Iraq Officials: Violence Drops as al-Qaeda Moves to Syria

Ecuador Court to Chevron: Human Rights Trump All

New Zealand: The Law Commission Plan to Scrap Jury Trials

US: Justice Department Abandons Bribery Trial

Opinion: How to Help the Syrians

Oil: The Finite Resource we Treat as Infinite

The Answer to Internet Piracy is Innovation, Not More Copyright Laws

 

Today’s News Links: 02-20-12

Scoring the Global War on Terror: From Liberation to Assassination

Khader Adnan and Now-Normalized Western Justice

The UN and Cholera in Haiti

Canada Threatens EU with Trade War Over Tar Sands

US: Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent

Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be Questioned Over Prostitution Ring

Somalia: Warring Parties Put Children at Grave Risk

FDA: US Won’t Allow Higher Levels of Fungicide in Orange Juice

Islamaphobia: NYPD Spied on Muslims All Over Northeast US

The Case For a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy

The Global Color Line

Kuwait: Domestic Workers Who Accused Diplomats of Human Trafficking Settle with Government

The War Over Prescription Painkillers

US Expanding Afghan Jail it Promised to Shut Down

Today’s News Links: 02-19-12

Petition: Free Nigerian Activists and Prisoners of Conscience

The Saudi Arab Spring Nobody Noticed

News Updates from Day 64 of Khader Adnan’s Hunger Strike

Sanctioning Iran: Focus Now Not on Elections, but Survival

Uncle Sam, Global Gangster

Does AIPAC Want War?

Opinion: My Tweets Refuse to be Subpoenaed 

UCLA Professor Robin Kelley on Palestine and the BDS Movement

The Fallacy of the “Arab Spring”

Delusions of the Corporate State

Moms and Cops Offer New Alternative to Failing Drug Policies

After Journalist Arrests, US Plummets in Global Rankings of Press Freedom

Lebanon Airport: Pilot Project or Stealing Sand?

America: Freedom of, AND from, Religion

A Few Dumb Ideas Brought to You by Spy Agencies…

Florida Lawmakers Defeat Prison Privatization Push

Today’s News Links: 02-18-12

Petition: Israel Must Stop Administrative Detentions, Release Khader Adnan

Robert Fisk on Khader Adnan: Saving his Life is Saving our Own Soul

Current TV: CNN’s Erin Burnett and War-Mongering Towards Iran

Fukushima Nuclear Update: Why We Should [Still] be Worried

The Pentagon’s Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan

Analyzing Conservatism, Low Intelligence, and Poor Information

American Jobs: Manufacturing Illusion? 

Syria: The Side You May Not Have Heard Yet

History: 5 Religious Leaders who Fought Christian Theocracy in America

Los Angeles’ Dirty Secret

NY Attorney General Hits Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo with New Lawsuits

NATO and Human Rights: Cooking Syria “Libya-Style”

Peter Singer on the Ethics of Internet Piracy

Opinion: US in “Dangerous State of Funk”

The Dark Side of Chocolate: What our Cocoa Addiction Means for the World

“Vati-Leaks” Casts Cloud Over New Cardinal Ceremony

Hell is Cheaper: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror

Today’s News Links: 02-17-12

Petition: Women Should Be Involved in Legislative Decision-Making Regarding Birth-Control

Arms Trade: Political Chess Games at United Nations Risk Millions of Lives

Mali: Violence Between Military and Tuareg Groups Causing Human Rights Crisis

France, UK Hold Meetings on Ousting Assad

Mexico’s New Billboard on US/Mexican Border: “No More Weapons!”

Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy

Khader Adnan: The West Bank’s Bobby Sands

State and Local Resistance to NDAA Growing

Hamza Kashgari: Those who Threaten Twitter “Blasphemy” Should Remember What Islam is For

Russia: Enshrining Homophobia

Sean Penn Speaks on the UK’s Dispute with Argentina

Florida Lawmakers Vote Against Measure to Prevent Everglades Oil/Gas Drilling

The Carter Center: Israel Must Release Palestinian Legislators

Egypt’s Other Revolution: Modernizing the Military-Industrial Complex

Link: Noam Chomsky Speech “Crisis and Hope; Theirs and Ours”

Black History or American History, What’s the Difference?

Today’s News Links: 02-16-12

Petition: Demand Justice for Leaders of the Bahrain Teachers Association

Drones to Infiltrate U.S. Skies

New Law in Hungary Makes Being Homeless a Crime

The Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wire-Tapping

America: This War is Not Yet Over

In Sri Lanka, Injustice Still Rampant

Blog: If Khader Adnan was Anything but Palestinian

China Must End Crackdown on Tibetans Returning from India

Defense Secretary Panetta Speaks on Iran

Islamophobia: FBI Purges Hundreds of Documents

Billionaires, Super-PACs and the Next President of the U.S.

Colombia and the U.S. War on “Drugs”

The U.S. Media, War-Mongering, and Iran

Goldmann Sachs Front-Runner in Auction for South American Coal Assets