NEW YORK TIMES TAKES ITS LITTLE HATCHET TO A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SUIT BY BLACK FARMERS. An article in the Times derogates a class action lawsuit against the USDA claiming what is a long-known fact, that this agency has conspired with local white racists to administer farm loans in a way to restrict opportunities for [...]
HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
MILITARY UBER ALLES: LIBERTARIAN WRITER DECRIES THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN LIFE. Jason Raimondo examines two chunks in the edifice of the structure of military dominance of the culture. (1) the recent decision to allow women into combat roles, which he sees as a triumph of equality over liberty, an “opportunity” for women to share in the [...]
What is considered by many to be the pinnacle of American democracy may be facing its greatest threat since the rampant discrimination of the 20th century that led to the creation of the protective legislation now questioned by the conservative majority that controls the highest court in the nation. Forged in the darkest days of [...]
U.S. DEVELOPING NEW EXCUSE TO DELAY WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN. The U.S. government “reluctantly” agreed to transfer detainees from Bagram prison to Afghan ones, expressing concerns about a history of detainees being tortured in local prisoners. John Glaser sees this as a false reason for prolonging the American presence in the country, as human [...]
DEATH BY “VIDEO GAME” IN PAKISTAN. Human rights attorney in the country has instituted, on behalf of a journalist who lost both his son and brother to drone attacks launched from remote bases in Nevada, law suits against two Pakistani-based C.I.A. agents deemed responsible for calling in air strikes against supposedly “militant” targets, [...]
ARTHUR MURRAY DIES IN AUSTRALIA: HIS LIFE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BALLROOM DANCING. Unlike that “other” AM who died in 1991, he was a heroic leader of the movement for aboriginal rights in Australia. The strike of cotton-pickers that he led had all the earmarks of an MLK-era protest in the U.S. as [...]
Pundits and political experts contend that the nation’s growing number of Hispanic voters may decide many of this November’s crucial election battles, including the race for the White House. But unprecedented restrictions on voting access for minorities could leave nearly half of the 23 million registered Latino voters in the United States unable to cast [...]
PUSSY RIOT IN RUSSIA: NOW THERE’S AN ISSUE INTO WHICH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAN SINK ITS TEETH. Diane Johnstone examines the behavior of the international “human rights” organization in going to the defense of a feminist punk-rock band “persecuted” by the Russian government for performing an allegedly “decadent” show in a Russian cathedral in which [...]
` “EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS POINTS IN THE SAME DIRECTION: WE’VE MADE THE EARTH WARMER.” ` In a year that has already seen frightening signs of a warming world that includes record heat and drought across the United States and mass melting of the Green;and ice sheet, scientists say another ominous sign of rapidly escalating climate [...]
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