RT TV: Protesters Rally Against Gitmo At US Embassy In Yemen (PHOTOS)
The demonstrators, many of whom were relatives of Gitmo prisoners highlighted the failure of the US government to fulfill its obligations to close the prison in Cuba. Activists have also gathered to draw attention to the deteriorating state of health of many prisoners who have been on hunger strike since February. |
House OKs 20-week abortion bill
The House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The most far-reaching abortion legislation in the House in a decade was approved 228-196, mostly along party lines. The vote is largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate. And the White House has already threatened to veto the "fetal pain" legislation, which is based on the controversial assertion that a fetus can fee... |
Joan Brunwasser: Battling Injustice: the BOP and Corrupt Judges
Judges don't want to know what happens after they slam the gavel and prison doors.They don't want any scrutiny of what they do and they don't want to scrutinize the actions of their fellow judges.In fact, even when federal judges are caught and prosecuted for their corruption,they have no worries, knowing they will face a fellow judge for sentencing, one who will,at best,administer a slap on the wrist, nothing comparable to |
Michael Hastings Dead at 33
Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings leaves behind a remarkable legacy of reporting, including an exposé of America's drone war, an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at his hideout in the English countryside, an investigation into the Army... 4  |
Wendell Potter: An Outbreak of Sanity
There is reason to be hopeful that our lawmakers can put aside their ideological differences every now and then and do what makes sense for constituents.
In fact, last week some of the people we have elected to represent us--at least at the state level--even showed a willingness to put careers at risk by doing what they believe is the right thing. |
Meryl Ann Butler: Prescott AZ Wildfire Engulfs 500 Acres (Update 11 pm PDT)
Firefighters battle a blaze that began just before noon on Tuesday just outside Prescott, AZ and homeowners have been evacuated. |
Assange will not leave Ecuador embassy even if Sweden drops extradition bid
Julian Assange will not leave Ecuador's embassy even if Sweden drops its extradition bid over accusations of sexual assault, because he fears moves are already underway by the US to prosecute him on espionage charges, he has said. "While I remain hopeful that a diplomatic solution can be reached, or that the Swedish and US authorities will cease their pursuit of me, it remains the case that it is highly unlikely that Sweden or... |
Obama in Berlin: Tearing Down Trade Walls with the US President
The shine has come off Obama's image since he was last in Berlin in 2008. This week's visit is set to be overshadowed by the NSA surveillance scandal, which Chancellor Merkel says she fully intends to address. Free trade will likely top the agenda. His brief visit will be overshadowed by news about the National Security Agency's surveillance of worldwide Internet communications. But Obama is touching down in Germany in the run... |
NSA head: Surveillance helped thwart more than 50 terror plots
Intelligence officials said Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance efforts have helped thwart "potential terrorist events" more than 50 times since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the officials detailed two new examples to illustrate the utility of the programs. He said at least 10 of the plots targeted the United States. |
William Boardman: Secret Government in Vermont is Bi-partisan
The story from Vermont, of all places, is breath-takingly simple: the elected city council, in a bi-partisan vote, has decided to keep its law-making process secret, rather than openly address the question of whether a draconian no-trespass law it passed last winter is patently unconstitutional. |
BRUCE WRIGHT -- PINELLAS COUNTY SHADOW SHERIFF by Jeff Roby
Introducing Reverend Bruce Wright, on the Green Shadow Cabinet representing General Welfare, Executive Committee Member of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and now Shadow Sheriff of Pinellas County. As being poor becomes more criminalized every day, Reverend Wright has become the champion of the poor. Working with Greens and others state wide he promotes peace, social justice and equal and fair treatment of the... 1 |
Tom Engelhardt: Nick Turse, Blowback Central
The other day, Hamid Karzai, the U.S.-supported Afghan president who was once sardonically nicknamed "the mayor of Kabul," had a few curious things to say about American policy in the Muslim world. Karzai, of course, is a man whose opinions -- whether on U.S. special operations forces and their (out of control) militias, U.S. night raids on Afghan homes, or U.S. air strikes on Afghan villages -- Washington loves to ignore. |
Zach Heffernen: Great March for Climate Action
This article introduces and explains the Great March for Climate Action. Starting next year, 1000 people will march across the nation, from Los Angeles to Washington DC, to inspire society to address climate change. 2 |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad summoned to criminal court
Iran's outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been summoned to a criminal court in Tehran to answer unspecified charges following the victory of the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani in Friday's presidential election. The news, initially announced by the government website dolat.ir, was the latest in a series of bruising setbacks for Ahmadinejad, who has fallen foul of his erstwhile patrons and lost a great deal of influenc... 1 |
Edward Snowden: US government has destroyed any chance of a fair trial
In a live Q&A with Guardian readers from a secret location in Hong Kong, Snowden did not directly answer a question about whether he had more unpublished material. But he said: "All I can say right now is the US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped." Snowden, who is in hiding at a safe house, spent nearly two hours taking questions on the Guar... |
Supreme Court: Arizona Citizenship Proof Law Illegal
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The court was considering the legality of Arizona's requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "motor voter" registration law. |
Tom Engelhardt: Tom Engelhardt, You Are Our Secret
As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying and just how far we've come in the building of a surveillance state have swept over us 24/7 -- waves of leaks, videos, charges, claims, counterclaims, skullduggery, and government threats. When a flood sweeps you away, it's always hard to find a little dry land to survey the extent and nature of the damage. |
Walter Brasch: OEN editor wins major journalism awards
An OEN senior editor and columnist won several awards from journalism organizations for his work in 2012. 6 |
Ecuadorean minister arrives in UK to discuss future of Julian Assange
Ecuador's foreign minister has arrived in Britain for talks with William Hague over the future of the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London for almost a year. Ricardo Patino met Assange on Sunday and will meet Hague on Monday. On Wednesday it will be one year since the WikiLeaks founder walked into the embassy in Knightsbridge in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden. 1 |
Blood on your hands: Vladimir Putin's attack on Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of G8 talks on Syria
In harsh and undiplomatic language, Mr Putin accused the UK and other Western powers of attempting to arm rebels who "kill their enemies and eat their organs." When he was asked by British journalists about comments by Mr Cameron last year -- that those supporting President Assad had the blood of Syrian children on their hands -- he reacted angrily. He said: "One does not need to support people who not only kill their enemies,... |
State photo-ID databases become troves for police
The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver's-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations. As the databases grow larger and increasingly connected across jurisdictional boundaries, critics warn that authorities are developing what a... 2 |
Dick Cheney To Chris Wallace: "Traitor' Snowden Possibly Had Chinese Connection Before Leaking Info
Dick Cheney staunchly defended the NSA surveillance programs started under his tenure as Vice President, telling Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that the programs could have stopped 9/11 had they been in effect, and that Edward Snowden was a traitor for revealing the information and fleeing to China. Cheney believes the government was justified in expanding the scope of surveillance to all phone metadata, even of people not s... 1 |
After Profits, Defense Firm Faces Pitfalls of Cybersecurity - NYTimes.com
The chief architect of Booz Allen's cyberstrategy is Mike McConnell, who once led the NSA. and pushed the United States into a new era of big data espionage. Booz Allen is one of many companies that make up the digital spine of the intelligence world, designing the software and hardware systems on which the NSA and other military and intelligence agencies depend. By Friday, shares of Booz Allen had slid nearly 6 percent since ... |
Trudy Lieberman: Healthcare Exchange Watch: Ohio's Phony Tale About Rising Premiums
Officials in Ohio are warning Buckeye State consumers that "insurers expect the cost to cover healthcare expenses for consumers will significantly increase." Never mind that their predictions are based on what insurers have told them their "costs" will be--not on the actual premiums they plan to charge. 6 |
Rob Kall: Transcript: Jeremy Scahill-- Obama's Legacy; to legitimize assassination as an essential Component of US foreign Policy
in a riveting interview, I talk with Scahill about Obama's murders, his assassination diplomacy, Training troops for repression in foreign lands, Murder Inc., the more dangerous aspect of the Obama presidency, Liberals on shaky ground, being killed for what you might become-- a "grotesque form of pre-crime. 8 |
Al Gore: NSA's Secret Surveillance Program "Not Really The American Way"
The National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way", Al Gore said on Friday, declaring that he believed the practice to be unlawful.
In his most expansive comments to date on the NSA revelations, the former vice-president was unsparing in his criticism of the surveillance apparatus, telling the Guardian security considerations should never overwhelm the basic rig... |
Iran Moderate Wins Presidency
In a striking repudiation of the ultraconservatives who wield power in Iran, voters here overwhelmingly elected a mild-mannered cleric who advocates greater personal freedoms and a more conciliatory approach to the world. The cleric, Hassan Rowhani, 64, won a commanding 50.7 percent of the vote in the six-way race, according to final results released Saturday, avoiding a runoff in the race to replace the departing president, M... |
William Boardman: Military Judge Runs A Shell Game
Court-martial judge Col. Denise Lind hasn't exactly banned the public -- or reporters, who are part of the public -- from the courtroom or its extensions, but she has presided over a system that, so far, seems designed to protect the public's right to know as little as possible. 2 |
Major Push to End Sexual Assault Epidemic in Military Turned Back in Senate
As the Senate Armed Services Committee meets Wednesday to take up its version of the Defense Authorization bill, senators will likely devote at least as much verbiage to discussion of sexual assault in the military ranks as they do to the finer points of the Pentagon budget that is the bill's main focus. But missing from the committee's final version of the bill will be the one measure that advocates for survivors of sexual as... |
