Spanish Judge to Probe Guantanamo Torture Claims

Published on Sunday, January 31, 2010 by Agence France-Presse Spanish Judge to Probe Guantanamo Torture Claims MADRID – Spain’s top investigating judge Baltasar Garzon is to probe suspected torture and ill-treatment of inmates at the US prison of Guantanamo Bay, a judical source said Saturday. Spain’s top investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, pictured in 2009, is [...]

Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe

Published on Saturday, January 30, 2010 by Newsweek Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot [...]

Sundance Founder Robert Redford on His Life, His Activism and the Importance of Independent Films

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/25/sundance_founder_robert_redford_on_his Sundance Founder Robert Redford on His Life, His Activism and the Importance of Independent Films Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. Today, we spend the hour with Robert Redford. He’s well known as an actor, but part and parcel of [...]

This Corruption in Washington is Smothering America’s Future

Published on Friday, January 29, 2010 by The Independent/UK This Corruption in Washington is Smothering America’s Future How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? by Johann Hari This week, a disaster hit the United States, and the after-shocks will be shaking and breaking global politics for years. It [...]

Obama’s Secret Prisons

Published on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by TomDispatch.com Obama’s Secret Prisons Night Raids, Hidden Detention Centers, the “Black Jail,” and the Dogs of War in Afghanistan by Anand Gopal [The research for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.] One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a [...]

Ring of Fire – Stories of the Week

Ring of Fire – Stories of the Week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmx7m3LKlU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqOGGhxmFuY&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTzxgbUaCgo&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr5IPDg188&feature=channel

Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction

Published on Monday, January 25, 2010 by TruthDig.com Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction by Chris Hedges Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to [...]

Judge Dumps Suit Over Bush-Era Wiretapping

Published on Sunday, January 24, 2010 by the San Francisco Chronicle Judge Dumps Suit Over Bush-Era Wiretapping by Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has dismissed AT&T customers’ lawsuit over wiretapping conducted under former President George W. Bush, a challenge the judge had allowed to proceed before Congress intervened. Chief U.S. District Judge [...]

Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study

Published on Saturday, January 23, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study Finds • Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites • Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report by Martin Chulov in Baghdad More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated [...]

Time to Rein in Out-of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy

Published on Saturday, January 23, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Time to Rein in Out-of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy by Ralph Nader Thursday’s 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. [...]