‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill

‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill [UPDATED] The Huffington Post |  Nico Pitney First Posted: 04-29-10 11:39 PM   |   Updated: 04-30-10 10:54 AM UPDATE: Palin has made her first comments on the spill, scroll down to see. More than a week has passed since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, [...]

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FBI Investigating Fed Officials And Massey Energy Over Possibly Bribery

FBI Investigating Fed Officials And Massey Energy Over Possibly Bribery AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 04-30-10 11:19 AM   |   Updated: 04-30-10 11:40 AM NPR News reports that the FBI is investigating the possible bribery of federal officials overseeing mining industry regulation by Massey Energy, the owner of the Upper Big Branch mine that exploded three weeks ago, [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox- What Goes Around

Justin Timberlake -What Goes Around

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Phoenix Mayor To Sue Over Arizona’s Immigration Bill – Kids & Seniors At Risk Of Being Arrested

Phoenix mayor to sue over Arizona’s immigration bill, says kids and senior citizens are at risk of being arrested Crooks and Liars- By John Amato Thursday Apr 29, 2010 1:00pm The hits keep coming in for Arizona’s Tancredo/Buchanan bill. The Mayor of Phoenix is no fan of this legislation and said this on Friday: Phoenix [...]

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British soldiers viewed all Iraqis as ‘scum’, Baha Mousa inquiry hears

Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount ‘arse-covering exercise’ after Baha Mousa’s death Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian/UK, April 27, 2010 Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, was beaten to death in 2003 while in the custody of 1 Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Photograph: Liberty/PA An [...]

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The Legality of Drone Warfare

By Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch, April 28, 2010 Congress is holding hearings this week on the legality of the US government’s drone warfare program. Conducted by the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the hearings will examine the CIA’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles – commonly known [...]

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Arizona Immigration Law Conjures Ghosts of Southern Neo-Slavery

The violation was known as “vagrancy.” If you were a black man in the South following Reconstruction, and you were unable to show proof of employment on-demand to the police, you could be arrested and delivered into what Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, calls “Neo-Slavery.” “Show me your papers” in the vernacular [...]

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Christian Right’s New Racial Playbook

Exposing the Christian Right’s New Racial Playbook AlterNet / By Sarah Posner A diversity summit at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University reveals that the religious right’s survival depends on the black and the brown. April 28, 2010 | NOTE: A reel of video highlights of the Freedom Federation Summit, filmed and compiled by Sarah Posner, appears [...]

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Jon Stewart: Arizona Is The Meth Lab Of Democracy – 4/26/10 (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy Raw Story- By David Edwards Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 — 9:23 am Jon Stewart slammed Arizona Monday for passing a new law that would require citizens to carry proof of residency papers — a measure he likened to slavery-era laws requiring African Americans to show their [...]

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Garzon who pursued Spain’s fascist assassins finds himself on trial

By sudhan Powerful enemies are attempting to unseat the ‘superjudge’ who tried to bring the death squads of Franco’s dictatorship to book Giles Tremlett in  Madrid, The Observer/UK, April 25, 2010 The Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, who dared to investigate the atrocities of the Franco dictatorship. Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images The crowd gathered outside Madrid’s [...]

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