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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, the UN Human Rights Committee said Friday.

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African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It

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Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Matt Renner - Oct. 14 (News Report) - the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that civil libertarians say amounts to covering up crimes committed by the Bush administration. Last week, in a federal courthouse in New York, Obama's Justice Department attorneys again argued in favor of secrecy.

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Mysterious Private Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Jail In Small Montana Town

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Justin Elliott - Oct. 01 (News Report) - A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cruise ships to Pakistani convoys has taken over a jail in a small Montana town, with plans to build a law enforcement training facility on the property.

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NYT Investigation Exposes Severity of Nationwide Water Contamination; Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Charles Duhigg - Sep. 14 (Investigative Report) - chemical companies have violated the Clean Water Act more than 500,000 times in the last five years. Most of the violations have gone unpunished, with state regulators taking significant action in just three percent of all cases. An estimated one in ten Americans has been exposed to drinking water that has dangerous chemicals or falls short of federal standards.

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Judge Overturns Bank Of America-SEC Settlement Over Merrill Bonuses

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephen Bernard - Sep. 14 (News Report) - A federal judge on Monday rejected a $33 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp., saying the SEC's accusations of inadequate disclosure by the bank over bonuses paid at Merrill Lynch must now go to trial. Separately, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office is preparing to file charges within the next couple of weeks against several high-ranking executives at Bank of America, claiming they failed to disclose details about the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

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Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women and Kids?

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Scott Thill - Aug. 17 (Special Report) - Thanks to the taser's wildfire deployment, classification as non-lethal weaponry and pop-cultural appeal in films, television, comics and even cartoons, cops have nearly lost their minds using it on everyone from children, the elderly, and pregnant mothers to the mentally unstable and physically disabled.

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Jailed Miami Man Hacked Into 130 Million Credit Card Accounts: Prosecutors

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Devlin Barrett - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Gonzalez is a former informant for the U.S. Secret Service who helped the agency hunt hackers, authorities say. The agency later found out that he had also been working with criminals and feeding them information on ongoing investigations, even warning off at least one individual, according to authorities. Gonzalez, who is already in jail awaiting trial in a hacking case, was indicted Monday in New Jersey and charged with conspiring with two other unnamed suspects to steal the private information. Prosecutors say the goal was to sell the stolen data to others.

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Feds Build Criminal Cases Against US Tax Evaders

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNBC.com - By Lynnley Browning The New York Times - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Federal prosecutors are building criminal cases against 150 wealthy American clients of the Swiss banking giant UBS as part of a continuing investigation into tax evasion. In February, UBS agreed to pay $780 million to settle charges that it had helped American clients evade taxes on nearly $20 billion hidden in offshore accounts.

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US, Swiss Cement Deal On Secret UBS Bank Accounts

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jessica Gresko - Aug. 12 (News Report) - The Swiss and U.S. governments announced a deal Wednesday to settle American demands for the identities of suspected tax dodgers, despite Switzerland's vaunted bank secrecy. But they kept all details under wraps, including how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS from banking giant UBS AG will be revealed.

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McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 10 (News Report) - McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2) By TheRealNews.com August 10, 2009 The leak of the Downing Street Minutes – written in July 2002 and disclosed three years later – was an “incredible” public service by a brave British truth-teller exposing how the Bush administration “fixed” the intelligence to justify invading Iraq, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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Holder's Torture-Probe Plan Faulted

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Jason Leopold - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Civil liberties advocates are criticizing an expected decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to limit a criminal probe of the Bush administration’s torture practices to CIA interrogators who exceeded Justice Department guidelines.

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Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Jeremy Scahill - Aug. 04 (News) - Sworn statements filed in Federal Court allege that Blackwater founder Erik Prince launched a "crusade" to eliminate Muslims and Islam and that the company may have been involved in murders to suppress information from federal investigators.

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President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Ralph Lopez - Aug. 04 (News Analysis) - President Jimmy Carter wrote that the Red Cross, Amnesty International and the Pentagon "have gathered substantial testimony of torture of children, confirmed by soldiers who witnessed or participated in the abuse." In "Our Endangered Values" Carter said that the Red Cross found after visiting six U.S. prisons "107 detainees under eighteen, some as young as eight years old." And reporter Hersh, (who broke the Abu Ghraib torture scandal,) reported 800-900 Pakistani boys aged 13 to 15 in custody.

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Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Anti-war activists in Olympia, Wash., have exposed Army spying and infiltration of their groups, as well as intelligence gathering by the Air Force, the federal Capitol Police and the Coast Guard. The infiltration appears to be in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act preventing U.S. military deployment for domestic law enforcement and may strengthen congressional demands for a full-scale investigation of U.S. intelligence activities, like the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s.

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Court Rules New York Fire Department Discriminates Against Black, Latino Applicants

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Paul Washington, Shayana Kadidal, Juan Gonzalez - Jul. 23 (News Report) - A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino applicants from joining the department. New York City has the least diverse fire department of any major city in the nation.

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Feingold Writes Holder: Investigate Bush-Era CIA Policies

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Jul. 14 (News) - Senator Russ Feingold, who has played a leading private and public role in pushing for an investigation into possible illegalities under President Bush, upped his efforts on Tuesday. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the Wisconsin Democrat urged the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into recent revelations about the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program.

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TABC Admits Man Was In Its Custody When Injured

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

cbs11tv.com - Jul. 01 (News Report) - Late Wednesday, State Senator Wendy Davis and State Representative Lon Burnam, both of Fort Worth, issued a joint statement. They say they have talked to TABC officials in Austin and are initiating an investigation to find out what happened that night.

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Local Gay Community Upset Following Reported Bar Raid

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

cbs11tv.com - By Selena Hernandez FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― - Jun. 29 (News Report) - Members of the North Texas gay community are angry and they want answers. News of a raid Saturday Night of the Rainbow Lounge night club on South Jennings Avenue has sparked an outcry.

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Stripping Away Free Expression: A Pennsylvania town tries—and fails—to ban a form of exercise.

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Shawn Macomber - Jun. 27 (Special Report) - Despite its cheeky name, the city of Mars isn’t always amenable to cultural efforts perceived as alien. The “pink-and-black color scheme of Ms. Babines’ website and the high-heeled shoe in her logo” were enough, according to court documents, to convince Code Enforcement Officer Gary Peaco to protect the community from these exercise classes.

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Call for Iran 'rioters' to be executed

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Australian Broadcasting - Jun. 26 (News Report) - A hardline Iranian cleric has called for the execution of "rioters", in a sign of the authorities' determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election result. Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, said it had found no major violations in the election, which it called the "healthiest" vote since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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Bush/Cheney Pushed Torture on DOJ

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Jason Leopold - Jun. 08 (News Report) - The White House role in pressing the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel to sign off again on the brutal tactics – after other OLC lawyers working with Comey had withdrawn the earlier approval – is crucial in assessing whether the OLC offered honest legal guidance or simply tailored its opinions to fit the desires of Bush, Cheney and other policymakers. A key defense line for Bush has been that the President was just following the advice of the OLC, which is responsible for setting parameters on presidential authority, and thus Bush and his senior aides shouldn’t be held accountable for any law violations. However, if the White House had been stage-managing those opinions, that defense would crumble.

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Judge orders halt to mining protests

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Charleston Gazette - By Ken Ward Jr. - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Circuit Judge Robert Burnside issued the injunction after two days in Beckley, in response to a civil lawsuit filed by several Massey subsidiaries whose operations have been shut down several times by the protesters. Burnside narrowed the scope of his ruling, compared to an earlier temporary restraining order. But the judge still extended the injunction to unnamed protesters who act in concert with or in association with previous protesters named in the injunction. "We have very serious issues we are looking at for appeal," said Roger Forman, lawyer for the protesters.

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Prescription drugs easily acquired from rogue Web sites

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

tampabay.com - By Stephen Nohlgren - May. 24 (Special Report) - People can't buy heroin or cocaine online, but a few clicks of the mouse get them darned close. For every CVS, Walgreens or Costco filling legitimate prescriptions over the Internet, dozens of shadowy Web sites sell painkillers and other powerful drugs to addicts, pushers and kids looking to get high. They run sites out of Mexico, computer servers out of Russia and distributors out of India.

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FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Dreyfuss - May. 23 (News Analysis) - By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.

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