Death Penalty: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights
Today is the world day against the death penalty, and Amnesty International is focusing its attention on the United States in the human rights organization’s global push to end capital punishment. The United States is the only country in the Americas that carried out executions in 2009. The paragraph below, from Amnesty International, best sums […]
Foreclosure Crisis: Homeowners Take On Banksters In California
In California, which is one of the epicenters of the foreclosure epidemic with Nevada, Arizona and Florida, an activist group is organizing struggling homeowners in their desperate fight to keep a roof above their heads. The Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment has just launched two days ago the Home Defenders League. The goal of […]
BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil
According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a […]
Corporations’ “Right To Privacy” Versus Freedom Of Information Act
The Supreme Court is back in session, and has agreed to hear the case Federal Communications Commission V. AT & T. This case, if won by AT & T would be a judicial disaster and could make the Freedom Of Information Act completely toothless by expanding an exemption to disclosure for documents that “invade personal […]
West-Bank: Palestinian Mosque Torched By Settlers
A West-Bank mosque was set on fire and vandalized with graffiti in Hebrew late Sunday night in what police suspects to be an attack by Israeli settlers in protest of any extension of the settlement freeze. Residents of the village Bayt Fajar, near the city of Bethlehem, said that a group of settlers coming from […]
