Today’s News Links: 05-24-12

Petition: Urge State Legislators to Ban Fracking in New York

Messing With Our Minds: The Ever-Finer Line Between News and Advertising

How Twitter Mapped a “Covert” Drone Operation in Yemen

The Uphill Fight Against Obama’s Drones

What Really Lies Behind the ‘War on Women’

Company Wants to Tap Mojave’s Public Lands for Southland Water

The Other US-Afghan Alliance in Chicago

Bradley Manning Military Trial: Group Petitions for a More Open Court

What Started a Mississippi Prison Riot? Depends on Who You Ask

Opinion: Sadly, Barack Obama, Like Mitt Romney, is an Apologist for the 1%

FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit

I Spy an ‘Occupy’: Obama’s DHS Surveils Legit Protestors

UN Criticized in Sudan After Thousands of Children Left Un-vaccinated

Jailed Bahraini Activist ‘AngryArabiya’ Pens Prison Plea

Canada Student Protests Erupt Into Political Crisis with Mass Arrests

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Egypt’s Women Rise Up

Police Urge Greeks to Keep Money in Banks

On Memorial Day, America Reckons With Torture

Amnesty Int’l to Angola: Protect Free Speech as Youth Activists Attacked

Disabled — and Handcuffed at School

Turkey Proposes Charges Against Israeli Military

US: Extreme Traffic Enforcement

Trump Insinuates Self Into Romney Campaign

France Plants to Revive EU Carbon Tariff

Mali’s Interim President Flown to Paris for Medical Tests

If President Rousseff Passes the Forest Code, It Won’t Be Only Brazil That Suffers

UN Chief Calls Rio+20 Summit ‘Painfully Slow’

Feds Say No Opting Out of “Secure Communities” Policing

Azerbaijan: Eurovision Deaf to Human Rights Abuses

Bashir Claims to Want Peace with South Sudan, But Security Comes First

It’s Time for a Corporate Spring

 

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