Archive: June 2010
David Wiegel | Washington Post | June 17, 2010 Tea party groups are reacting strongly and negatively to MSNBC’s documentary “The Rise of the New Right,” hosted by Chris Matthews. Yesterday, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey expressed personal disgust with Matthews for lending his name to the project, which has enraged tea partyers by repeating charges that they “taunted”
Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging Controlling the brain with light Ed Boyden | SPIE Newsroom | 10 June 2010 Ed Boyden is an assistant professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab. His award-winning research group develops tools to enable systematic understanding of neural circuits and discovers principles for controlling neural circuits to
“Farben was Hitler and Hitler was Farben.” (Senator Homer T. Bone to Senate Committee on Military Affairs, June 4, 1943.) On the eve of World War II the German chemical complex of I.G. Farben was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, with extraordinary political and economic power and influence within the Hitlerian Nazi state. I. G. has been
By Jennifer Lipman | Jewish Chronicle | June 30, 2010 Archives containing the names of French citizens who collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust are to be published online. The release of the names of thousands of collaborators will enable survivors to find out who betrayed them and their loved ones during the four years France was occupied by the
” … The major electronic and print media CNN, FOX News, Washington Post, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the once liberal Financial Times (FT) hailed Santos election, as a great victory for democracy. … “ A “Role Model” for Latin America By Prof. James Petras Global Research | June 27, 2010 Juan Manuel
” … The far right in our country isn’t just tea party ‘wackos.’ To get to the root, a good place to start would be Exxon Mobil. … “ Photo: Exxon Mobil Corp Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson speaks at a news conference in Dallas last year, where he sought to defend the company’s record on climate change. (AP/Mike
By John Del Signore The Gothamist | June 10, 2010 A surprising legal victory has ended in idiotic failure for a school safety officer who refused to wear her ID because she believes that computer chips in the card were “the marks of the beast.” You may recall that Velma Craig, 48, represented herself in a lawsuit against the city,
” … Political spying – rampant during the Cold War under the FBI’s COINTELPRO, the CIA’s Operation Chaos and other programs – has experienced a steady resurgence in the years following 9/11. … ‘In our country, under our Constitution, the authorities aren’t allowed to spy on you unless they have specific and individual suspicion that you are doing something
By Bradley Hope | The National | June 24. 2010 The businessman and unwitting Nazi hunter John Schneider-Merck. Randi Sokoloff / The National The ears gave him away. It was during the early 1970s in Peru that John Schneider-Merck, a keen adventurer and import-export businessman, first ran across a suspicious-looking fellow who called himself Klaus Altmann. “I used to come down
Nicole Winfield | Associated Press | June 29, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI (left) with Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, whom he admonished for accusing an official of blocking inquiries. The Vatican on Monday issued an unprecedented rebuke of a top cardinal who had accused the retired Vatican No. 2 of blocking clerical sex abuse investigations, publicly dressing down a man
Colonel charged with gun smuggling By Laura Rozen | Politico | 6/28/10 A retired U.S. Air Force colonel charged in the 1980s in an Iran-contra related weapons smuggling case has been indicted in a U.S. federal court in Miami with conspiring with an Israeli aeronautics engineer to illegally export 2,000 AK-47s to Somalia. The June 17 indictment against Joseph O’Toole, 79,
McCain’s Big Oil Connection – CPI Investigation: Newt Gingrich’s 527 Group American Solutions for Winning the Future Mixing Oil and Politics Is Formula for Newt’s ‘Solutions’ By: Center for Public Integrity Sep 12, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2008 – How did “Drill, baby, drill” become the rallying cry that is shaping the debate in the 2008 race for
Frontline Transcript Carl Lindner, a Cincinnati businessman with international interests ranging from banking to bananas, is one of the nation’s wealthiest men. His frequent, abundant contributions to political candidates and parties have put him at times in the public spotlight. His friends defend his political giving as merely the generosity of a public spirited citizen. His critics suspect that his
” … According to [Richard] Helms’ memo, Imelda Marcos reported that she had been only partly successful in persuading the Pope to give her some political cover. … Pope Paul VI kept his word to Mrs. Marcos, as the Con-con elections of Nov. 10, 1970 preceded the two-day papal visit to Manila from Nov. 27-29. … Upon his arrival at