Category: Politics & Human Rights
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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
Israeli sniper to get 45 days in jail for Gaza civilian deaths
Mitt Romney started Bain Capital with money from death squad backers
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
Brett Wilkins 