P2′s Berlusconi in Peril as Old Ally and 33 MPs Desert Him Over Scandals
By Tom Kington in Rome The Guardian | 30 July 2010 • Italian premier puts brave face on defection • Parliamentary majority ebbs away in new crisis Silvio Berlusconi’s third term as Italian prime minister is in jeopardy after the
Jul 30, 2010 / / Read More »Mountaintop Removal: Massey Energy Files ’SLAPP’ Lawsuit against Environmental Activists »
Williamson Daily News ROCK CREEK — Massey Energy has filed a politically motivated civil suit, also known as a Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation (SLAPP) suit, against 14 activists arrested last year
Jul 30, 2010 / / Read More »Chile Rejects Church Call to Pardon Pinochet’s Military Officials »
” … The general pardon would have affected more than 60 people currently serving prison sentences for human rights violations during General Pinochet’s 17-year military government, most of whom are in a
Jul 30, 2010 / / Read More »Texas Haunted by Innocent Man’s Execution and Cover-Up »
By Michael Stone | Portland Examiner | July 23, 2010 fWhile Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to deny the fact that Texas executed an innocent man, Texas Forensic Science Commission Chairman John
Jul 30, 2010 / / Read More »Recommended
Patriot Act Revisions to Immigration Law – Sustained by Obama Adminstration – Turn Refugees into “Terrorists”
Treating Refugees as ‘Terrorists’ By David Slawson, Alisa Roth and Hugh Eakin New York Review of Books (letters page) | July 15, 2010 To the Editors: Hugh Eakin and Alisa Roth’s review of Deborah Amos’s Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East [NYR, May 13] quotes the book to the effect that our government considered Iraqi refugees who seek resettlement here to have given “material support” to a
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American Terrorism
The Phoenix Program Redux: Task Force 373
Why is the NY Times Underplaying Account of Task Force 373’s Extrajudicial Killings? By Jeffrey Kaye The Public Record | July 28th, 2010 … Even the quickly posted Wikipedia entry on Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force 373 notes that there is a large discrepancy between the amount of targets on TF373’s “kill/capture” list as reported by the major media. The figures are drawn from the extraordinary release of previously classified Afghan war reports
Jul 28, 2010 / / Read More »- BP Faces Scrutiny in Lockerbie Case »
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What an Economic Hit Man Does »
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man –Redemption in Confession by Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Sri Lanka Guardian | July 25, 2010 To steal millions, you need a top team of
Jul 28, 2010 / / Read More »Washington Post: Intelligence Oversight Panels Dodge Contractor Reform »
By Jeff Stein Washington Post | July 23, 2010 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long wanted more members of Congress to know what’s going on at the CIA, but why doesn’t she
Jul 28, 2010 / / Read More »Afghanistan War Logs: Secret CIA Paramilitaries’ Role in Civilian Deaths »
By David Leigh The Guardian | July 25, 2010r Shum Khan, a man both deaf and unable to speak, lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When
Jul 28, 2010 / / Read More »BP Faces Scrutiny in Lockerbie Case »
By JOHN F. BURNS New York Times | July 15, 2010 LONDON — The oil giant BP faced a new furor on Thursday as it confirmed that it had lobbied the British
Jul 15, 2010 / / Read More »Media
UK: Murdoch’s Times Loses Defamation Suit Filed by Police Officer Falsely Accused of Taking Bribes from Russian Mafia
By Adam Wagner UK Human Rights Blog | July 14, 2010 Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 804 (13 July 2010) – Read judgment A Detective Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police accused of taking bribes has won his battle against the Times to prevent the newspaper relying on the Reynolds defence, which allows allegations to be reported even the it they turn out to be wrong, in the interest of media freedom. In June
Jul 27, 2010 / / Read More »- Now CIA Propagandist-Plagiarist Gerald Posner is Karzai Family Lawyer »
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The Publicist: Henry Luce, Time Inc., and “The American Century” (Book Review) »
Editor’s caveat: Henry Luce was an American fascist from the Hitler-financing Morgan syndicate, and after the creation of the CIA in 1947, a ranking Operation Mockingbird propagandist. Typically, in the period between the “Great”
Jul 27, 2010 / / Read More »The Corporate Perversion of Journalism »
” … What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites… is a manipulation. Not just of a story, not just on behalf of a political philosophy. Manipulation
Jul 26, 2010 / / Read More »Dangerous Minds: William F. Buckley Soft-Pedeled the Legacy of Nazi Sympathizing Anti-Semite Westbrook Pegler »
By Diane McWhorter Slate | March 4, 2004 Westbrook Pegler Those younguns at the Columbia Journalism School (to borrow a trope from the Times‘ gossip page) must be scratching their heads over
Jul 18, 2010 / / Read More »Now CIA Propagandist-Plagiarist Gerald Posner is Karzai Family Lawyer »
by Jocelyn Rousey | Mediaite | July 8, 2010 Gerald Posner has succeeded where many others have failed: finding a new job in a bad economy. Earlier this year, the former Daily Beast
Jul 15, 2010 / / Read More »GOP Watch
Arizona: Gov. Brewer Under Investigation for Ties to Private Prisons that could Benefit from SB 1070 (Video)
Busted! Racist Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, she of the leathery face, is under investigation, by TV station KPHO, which is looking into ties between her administration and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) – and how the Governor’s rhetoric on border security may be damaging Arizona’s tourism industry for the benefit of CCA. The private prison industry houses illegal immigrant detainees for the federal government. Those companies could gain contracts with state and local
Jul 28, 2010 / / Read More »- New Plagiarism Question in Colorado Governor Campaign »
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California: GOP Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina Backed by Coal-Mining Firms »
Lance Williams, California Watch | SF Chronicle | July 27, 2010 Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (left) and Bob Murray, chief of Murray Energy, speak
Jul 27, 2010 / / Read More »Meet the New George Bush »
” … The 34-year-old Texas lawyer and property developer … was recently sent to Iraq as an intelligence officer in the Navy reserves – a deployment that further burnishes his political credentials.
Jul 27, 2010 / / Read More »Tea Party Federation Expels Mark Williams over Racist Blog Post »
Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams explains why the corporate-backed, far-right astroturf movement isn’t racist: ” … Williams [wrote] that the Tea Party movement couldn’t be racist because it opposed government bailouts
Jul 18, 2010 / / Read More »New Plagiarism Question in Colorado Governor Campaign »
Scott McInnis again accused of “borrowing” material, this time from a former national security adviser Associated Press | Jul 14, 2010 Another possible example of plagiarism by Colorado
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