Archive: April 2010
Cement job at underwater well probed as possible cause of spill MiamiHerald.com - Kevin G. Hall WASHINGTON — An inadequate underwater cement job during the deepwater drilling process is emerging as a potential cause of the devastating … Fighting the oil slick…Halliburton named…Stocks fall 9&10 News - 3 hours ago NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oil services company
Afghan protesters chant slogans as they gather around the body of a man who was killed by NATO troops Reuters By RFI The French army admitted Thursday to having accidentally killed four young Afghan civilians in a missile attack on 6 April in Kabul. The statement comes at the end of a three week investigation into the deaths. Meanwhile, protests
Compilation by Mae Brussell From: NewsMakingNews “Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in shooting Pres. John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, or did he conspire with others? Was he serving as an agent of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, himself the target of American assassins? Or in squeezing the trigger of his carbine was he undertaking some super “dirty trick” for
” … Whether regular soldiers or Special Forces, many veterans of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have succumbed to near-epidemic rates of suicide. Being ordered to slaughter civilians, even inadvertently, must weigh heavily on one’s mental make-up. Furthermore, as occupiers in foreign lands and as enforcers for imperial depredations, it must be nearly impossible to escape the
By Jeremy Kryt | In These Times (Excerpt)| 29 April 2010 TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—Late in the afternoon on February 3, Vanessa Zepeda, a 28-year-old registered nurse, left a union hall after a meeting and began walking to the supermarket to buy school supplies for her children and formula for her baby girl. She never made it. According to witnesses, as she was
” … The credit for finding the chemical composition of aspirin should rightfully go to Arthur Eichengrün who, in 1897 discovered aspirin. … However, the poor man was never given the credit for discovering aspirin as he was a Jew and the rise of Nazis had already begun in Germany. … “ By Dr. B. M. Hegde, India
From: “The Company They Keep” RE HERMANN ABS OF DEUTSCHE BANK and AUSCHWITZ: … Abs had arranged the financing of its construction. … ABS AND THE THIRD REICH … History has largely ignored bankers in favor of other subjects. History, and those who write it (and their masters) apparently want us to think politicians and generals are more important to
” … Court documents filed in Texas identify Richard Hogan, chief executive of SOLVAY’S wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, as one of three directors of the [Coalition for Responsible Regulation], the lead petitioner on the legal challenge to the EPA’s authority to act on greenhouse gas emissions. The filings give Solvay’s Houston office as Hogan’s address. … Mark
29 April 2010 http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/89760 Legal experts have warned US legislators that the shadowy CIA drone assassination programme in Pakistan is a “clear violation of international law” that exposes drone pilots to the risk of prosecution. At a Wednesday hearing of the House national security and foreign affairs subcommittee in Washington, University of Notre Dame Law School professor Mary
By Kristi E. Swartz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Excerpt) | April 28, 2010 When passengers on Delta Air Lines Flight #273 had to start passing their blankets and pillows to the flight attendants, some wondered aloud if a traveler had fallen ill, Freddie Styles said. But that wasn’t the case at all. Federal air marshals were building a bunker around the
By Michel Comte (AFP) | AFP | April 28, 2010 A view of the Parliament building in Ottawa OTTAWA — Canada’s government may be held in contempt of Parliament if it does not soon release uncensored documents pertaining to transfers of detainees to Afghan custody, the House speaker ruled Tuesday. Speaker of the House Peter Milliken gave the Conservative minority
By James Hohmann | Politico | 4/19/10 Tea party activists are divided roughly into two camps, according to a new POLITICO-TargetPoint poll: one that’s libertarian-minded and largely indifferent to hot-button values issues and another that’s culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues. The survey, an exit poll conducted Thursday by Edison Research at the massive Tax
” … Of course, this is the scenario that antiwar activists predicted eight years ago, but no one else, especially the Bush administration, thought it would take so long to play out. … “ Excerpt: “Wake Up: There’s A Huge ‘Gold Rush’ In Iraq And American Companies Are Making Bank” The Mad Hedge Fund Trader | The
” … If I don’t tell this story, it will be told by Oliver Stone … “ Hollywood and the CIA: The Spook Stays in the Picture — Photographs: Universal Pictures; Random House Charlie Wilson’s War is only the latest in a string of movies brought to you
Confronted With Truth, Blue Dog Ben Nelson Throws Hissy Fit by Charley James | LA Progressive | 4 August 2009 Since the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seem unwilling to take on Blue Dogs blocking desperately needed public option from health care and insurance reform, the job of calling them out is falling to advocates and Keith