Category: Politics & Human Rights
721 Posts
US rebuff of ‘socialized medicine’ baffles world health leaders
My debate with a Guantánamo prosecutor—and high school buddy
Republican congressman calls for nuclear war against Iran
The other 9/11: Remembering the US-backed 1973 Chile coup
Abu Ghraib torture victims sued by their torturers
Army releases photo of Bradley Manning dressed as a woman
San Francisco rightly says no to ‘stop and frisk’
Bradley Manning guilty of 19 of 22 charges, faces 130 years
Bradley Manning: State of power vs. state of conscience
2016 candidates? None of the above, thank you very much
Obama’s soaring rhetoric kept aloft by plenty of hot air
Other Writing, Politics & Human Rights
Medical Marijuana Review — Berkeley Patients Group battles with government over medical marijuana
Remembering the millions of innocents killed in US wars
Activist Groups, Politics & Human Rights
Newark archdiocese pays $650K to settle priest sex abuse claims
Activist Groups, Politics & Human Rights
Twice-destroyed clergy sex abuse memorial to be re-dedicated
Yahoo News — Bush’s global legacy of death and destruction
Torturing Guantánamo’s hunger strikers
‘On This Day’ 2003: US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq begins
‘On This Day’ 2003: US peace activist Rachel Corrie killed by Israeli occupation forces
UN: ‘Cruel and inhuman’ abuse of Palestinian children by Israel
A tale of two neighbors: US embraces Colombia’s murderous regime, vilifies Venezuela’s Chávez
In State of the Union address, Obama tells big Middle East lies
Venezuela donates free heating oil to 100,000 needy US households
‘One nation under Allah’: Colorado high school students recite Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic; outrage ensues
Israel is much closer to Nazi Germany than Iran is
US supports dictators in 4 of world’s 7 least free nations
US contractor L-3 agrees to pay $5.28 million to Iraqis in Abu Ghraib torture settlement
150 years after Emancipation Proclamation, mass incarceration is the new slavery
Furtherance: US Cold War plan for all-out nuclear war against potentially innocent nations revealed
US admits imprisoning hundreds of Afghan children
‘On This Day’ 1982: US-backed Guatemalan forces massacre 200 villagers at Dos Erres
The US ‘rape of Okinawa’ continues
Activist Groups, Politics & Human Rights
US army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide on poor St. Louis residents
NYT reporter: Bush White House didn’t listen to 9/11 warnings
HRW: US tortured Gaddafi opponents, rendered them to Libya
President Obama’s top 50 broken promises
US drone strike kills 13 Yemeni civilians
Chicago: 19 people shot in one night; 13 in 30 minutes
Israel arrests teen girls for brutal hate attack on Palestinians
Obama’s Pussy Riot hypocrisy
Brett Wilkins 