Today’s News Links: 06-07-12

Obama’s Personal Role in Drone Executions

Systemic Sexual Abuse of Congolese Migrants in Angola

Seeds of Doubt: Brazilian Farmers Sue Monsanto

US Post-Assad Syria Plan: Intervention in the Cards?

Lawmakers Ask Hillary Clinton to Explain Erik Prince’s Mercenaries in the UAE

UAE Turns to Deportation to Silence Critics of the Regime

How Citizens United Helped Scott Walker Win Wisconsin

Stop-and-Frisk Controversy Prompts Meeting with Justice Dept.

Obama’s Kill List – Silence is NOT an Option

Drones, Drift, and the [New] American Way of War

Praying at the Church of St. Drone

“Don’t Thank Me for My Service” – by a US Marine

Did Anyone Ever Bother to Get the Pakistani Perspective?

Israel to Build 300 New West Bank Settlement Homes

The Already Forgotten Iraq War

Add a Few Irrelevant Facts, Stir, and Let Prejudice Do the Rest

Opinion: Even I, an Israeli, Do Not Think Settlement Goods are Kosher

Canada Quits UN Tourism Body After Mugabe Appointment

The Big-Lie Coup d’etat

The War on Contraception: It’s Time to Take Sides

Chinese Dissident Li Wangyang Found Hanged in Hospital

Private Prisons Profit From Immigration Crackdown, Collaboration Between Local and Federal Law Enforcement

Neo-Con Says: Syria Has Nothing to Do with Humanitarian Concern

South Sudan Asks Officials to Return Stolen Funds

At What Temperature Does a Kindle Burn? Remembering Ray Bradbury

South Africa ‘Secrecy Bill’ Puts Continent’s Press Freedom at Risk

Scott Simon, NPR, and the Empire

Republicans: AWOL on Afghanistan

What Wisconsin Taught Us

US Military: Active-Duty Suicide Rate Soars

Death Threats Against Mexican Human Rights Defender Vidulfo Rosales

In Venezuela, the Revolution Continues

BDS Roundup: Arizona State University Student Gov’t Votes to Divest from Israel

First ‘Targeted Killing’; Now Targeted Propaganda

UK: ‘Occupy’ Returns to St. Paul’s on Pilgrimage of Protest

Many Treaties to Save the Earth, But Where’s the Will to Implement Them?

UK: Pollution ‘Outsourced’ Overseas

Australia’s Man Against the Mines

Preserving the Manhattan Project: Cynthia Kelly and the Atomic Heritage Foundation

Jonah Goldberg Says Youth of the US Too Stupid to Vote

America’s Worst Educators

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *