The L.A. Times had this week two op-eds on Hiroshima. That’s way above average; the NY Times, for example, had none. Instead, the NY Times editors managed to harness the August 6 holocaust to score a political cheap shot in… Read moreHiroshima, or how we learned to build a love-hate relationship with the Bomb
Tricked into enlisting, US soldier found most soldiers would rather self-mutilate than serve in Iraq. Dateline: Sunday, July 24, 2005 as told by Joshua Key, and written up by Annick Cojean for Le Monde, translation at straightgoods.ca I am a… Read moreU.S. army deserter’s log: Zombies in the Fog of War
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst terror attacks in history August 6 and August 9 will mark the 60th anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, an estimated 80,000 people were killed in… Read moreLest we forget…
The Indonesian government has charged a local unit of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp., the world’s largest gold miner, with damaging the environment at its mine near Manado in eastern North Sulawesi province. The government also charged Newmont of Indonesia’s president,… Read moreNewmont Mining sued over Indonesia contamination
A coalition of 14 media organizations and public interest groups organized by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed an amicus brief in federal court in New York urging the release of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos…. Read morePress stands up to White House on Abu Ghraib torture photos
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Saudi religious leaders, tribal chiefs and government officials gathered in Riyadh to formally declare their loyalty to the new monarch King Abdullah, on the heels of foreign dignitaries including French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and Britain’s… Read moreKing Abdullah: family tie to Iraq
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has filed suit against the city to keep police from searching the bags of passengers entering the subway. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, claims the two-week old policy violates… Read more(Some) New Yorkers resist Big Brother
In an Aug. 1 statement, Amnesty International expresses concern about the recent arrest and detention of six human rights defenders in Western Sahara, and reports that two of them had been tortured. Some of those arrested are former “disappeared”, others… Read moreMore arrests, torture in Western Sahara
Reuters: The plot in the Pentagon analyst/AIPAC scandal is about to thicken: U.S. prosecutors plan to announce additional charges on Thursday against a Defense Department analyst accused of illegally disclosing classified defense information, and to charge two former officials of… Read moreAIPAC officials to face charges
Shooter was IDF deserter from W. Bank settlement By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies A Jewish Israeli man in Israel Defense Forces uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town… Read moreTapuach settler opens fire in a crowded bus, kills four
Editor & Publisher reports on an outburst of integrity in Medialand. The board of The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) has voted unanimously to reverse an earlier decision to give its annual Conscience in Media award to jailed… Read moreAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors disses Judith Miller
