Archive for April, 2010

Tibet and the Shangai Expo

Filed under: Action! | Asia — by Ruth Friend 04/30/2010 @ 8:11:30 PM
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The Shanghai World Expo, which officially opens tomorrow, May 1st, is yet another multi-billion dollar propaganda spectacle put on by the Chinese government.

Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the Shanghai … [Keep reading >>]

Sky Truth: On the Oil Spill

Filed under: Environment | Oceans — by Will Kirkland 04/30/2010 @ 3:40:11 PM
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Check out SkyTruth Blog for updates on the oil spill.

See their entire site for other work they do:  SkyTruth uses remote sensing and … [Keep reading >>]

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance

Filed under: Books — by Will Kirkland 04/30/2010 @ 8:14:08 AM
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I believe you’ll want to skim this book…
Powells
Amazon
Original Salon article by Alexander Zaitchick. … [Keep reading >>]

Moyers Retiring

Filed under: Media — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 10:09:23 PM

This weekend, PBS will air the last new regular episode from journalist extrordinaire, Bill Moyers, in his show Bill Moyers Journal.  It’s hard to think of this … [Keep reading >>]

Oil Hitting Delta This Evening

Filed under: Environment | Oceans — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 6:19:00 PM

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Gold Turns to Dross: SEC Refers to Justice Dept

Filed under: Corruption | Economy — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 6:03:28 PM
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Ow ow ow!
Goldman Sachs Case Sent To Justice Department Prosecutors By SEC … [Keep reading >>]

GOP Fault Line

Filed under: Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 5:46:30 PM
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Update: Now the Dems too, have a spanner in the works of the Florida U.S. Senate race, though theirs will come at Primary time on August 31, instead of during … [Keep reading >>]

Egyptian Workers on Months Long Protests

Filed under: Africa | Labor / Unions — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 8:14:13 AM
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Wow! This is amazing. Civil Disobedience in Egypt!

“Day after day, hundreds of workers from all over Egypt have staged demonstrations and sit-ins outside Parliament, turning sidewalks in the heart … [Keep reading >>]

NY Times’ Risen Gets Subpoena

Filed under: Media | Reporters — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 8:11:01 AM
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“The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was … [Keep reading >>]

Desert Derangement Syndrome

Filed under: Migration — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 8:07:37 AM
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Don’t miss this wild tongued rant from Timothy Egan:
Can it get any worse? Well, yes. Somewhere deep in the Sonoran Desert is the lost soul of John McCain. … [Keep reading >>]

Dorothy Height: Gone

Filed under: Passings | Race — by Will Kirkland 04/29/2010 @ 8:03:09 AM
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Dorothy Height, one of the Grand Old Elders of the Civil Rights Movement died last week at the age of 98.  She was eulogized by President Obama today at the … [Keep reading >>]

Iraqis Again Tortured – In Secret Prison

Filed under: Iraq | Torture | War — by Will Kirkland 04/28/2010 @ 9:30:16 PM

From Human Rights Watch:

Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said … [Keep reading >>]

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