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Wikileaker Bradley Manning “Illegally Punished,” 4 months off Life Sentence
A military judge has found that Bradley Manning, who released large numbers of low-classified State Department cables to Wikileaks, was illegally punished while in the […]
Frankenyear 2012: Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually
Can we sue the Koch brothers and all the other dirty-energy, climate change-denying moguls yet for the billions they are costing us in climate disasters […]
Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)
Not controversial: John Brennan: Served in CIA during the torture program, designed the current US drone program that has extra-judicially killed hundreds, including children and […]
Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat
The heat wave or “dome of heat” afflicting Australia may produce a record temperature of over 122 degrees F. (over 50 degrees C.). For temperatures […]
The Syrian Opposition Attacks Bashar al-Assad’s Defiant Speech (Aljazeera & Alarabiya via OSC)
The USG Open Source Center translates broadcasts from Arabic satellite television concerning the speech on Sunday of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in which he again […]
Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense
I doubt Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska, and I would agree about almost anything with regard to domestic US politics. Unless his […]
Climate Change is Snowballing on Obama: Time for Drama, not Gradualism! (McKibben)
Bill McKibben writes at Tomdispatch Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a […]
Syrian Revolutionaries Continue Damascus Operations as Bashar takes to Airwaves
Beleagured President Bashar al-Assad addressed the nation on Sunday, in a “Baghdad Bob” moment, in which he more or less denied he has lost control […]
Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)
Joaquin Sapien writes at ProPublica: Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control […]
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