Category: Politics & Human Rights
721 Posts
Texas executes mentally retarded man
Same-sex marriage supporters hold ‘kiss in’ at Phoenix Chick-fil-A
Israel orders demolition of 8 Palestinian villages
Emails prove Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law racially motivated
Congress: Bottom 50% of US households hold just 1% of wealth
Hillary Clinton confronts legacy of US atrocities in Laos
First-time offender sentenced to 162 years in prison for robbery
NJ governor Chris Christie calls war on drugs a ‘failure’
At least 31 victims identified in latest Air Force sex scandal
Supreme Court slams door on justice for Guantánamo detainees
Yahoo News — Unicef: US has second-highest child poverty rate in developed world
Yahoo News — Report: Obama redefines ‘militant’ to avoid counting civilian drone deaths
Redefining Memorial Day, or, remembering the millions of innocent civilians killed in America’s imperial wars
Oh, the irony: Bloody Reagan’s blood up for auction
Yahoo News — Turkey suspects bird of being Israeli spy
Yahoo News — FBI considering hate crime charges against George Zimmerman
Obama fundraiser Hala Hijazi under fire for speaking truth about Israel
Yahoo News — US military taught officers to use ‘Hiroshima’ tactics to destroy Mecca in ‘total war’ on Islam
Yahoo News — Republican congressman introduces bill to protect Planned Parenthood funding
Yahoo News — NYPD ‘stop and frisk’ policy disproportionately targets black, Latino youth
Yahoo News — Fox News guest says letting women vote is ‘one of America’s greatest mistakes’
ABC Good Morning America — SF Commune reoccupies vacant archdiocese building
Yahoo News — May Day by the Bay marked by many protests
Obama restores US military aid to Uzbekistan, whose brutal dictator boils opponents alive
US Marine & Iraq war veteran critically injured by police projectile at Occupy Oakland protest
Police attack peaceful Occupy Oakland protesters with rubber bullets & concussion grenades
The Troy Davis execution: From great shame springs great hope
Fighting terror with terror: 9/11 + 10
Waterboarding is torture.
London uprising rooted in economic inequality and racism
U.S. cost of War on Terror = 250,000 dead, $3.7 trillion—and counting
‘On This Day’ 1967: Israel attacks U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 American sailors and wounding 173
‘On This Day’ 1997: Project for a New American Century founded
Peace activist attacked by AIPAC thugs during Netanyahu’s DC speech, then arrested in hospital
The death of a terrorist… No, not that one
NATO air strike kills Gaddafi’s son, grandchildren; orphanage and preschool bombed
The sickeningly star-spangled spectacle of Americans cheering death
Osama bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan
‘On This Day’ 1953: US begins MK-ULTRA mind control experiments
‘On This Day’ 1980: Oscar Romero assassinated by US-backed Salvadoran death squad
Brett Wilkins 