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<p>Since my last article debunking long-time Toronto activist Judy Rebick's publicly promoted conspiracy theory that the Toronto police allowed the...
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Syndicated from Slashdot on Sat, 2010-07-03 Jamie points out this excellent piece, well timed for America's Independence Day, that says spectrographic evidence has established that the one word Thomas Jefferson fully blotted out from an early draft of the Declaration of Independence was not "resident," or "patriot," but rather "subject." This, he replaced with "citizen."
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 We need public policies that help people become happier — things like national health care, social security, and shorter work hours.
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<p>Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. Th...
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<p>In the days following the mass police assaults on organizers, demonstrators, and bystanders during the G8/G20 events, even as comrades linger in...
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Where Are The Maya? exposes the uncomfortable truth about the tourist Meccas of Cancún and Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The Narco News School of Authentic Journalism presents Where Are The Maya? a new 15-minute documentary film that strikes at the heart of Mexico's tourism industry.
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by Stephen Engelberg
This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE (PBS).
A photographer taking pictures for these articles, was detained Friday while shooting pictures in Texas City, Texas.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tightened rules on media relations for the US military, only days after the top general in Afghanistan was sacked over disparaging comments he and aides made in an interview.
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by Lesley Clark
WASHINGTON - A coalition of major news
organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that
were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military
commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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by Richard Simon and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS - Hundreds of skimming boats prepared Friday to return to calmer gulf
waters in the wake of Hurricane Alex and resume cleanup of the massive
BP oil spill, which scientists now predict is likely
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by Renee Schoof
WASHINGTON - As an unprecedented amount of oil fouls the Gulf of Mexico, research scientists and ocean experts say the Obama administration's efforts to discover the magnitude of the damage are surprisingly uncoordinated.
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Syndicated from Slashdot on Sat, 2010-07-03 Archness1 writes with an excerpt from Declan McCullagh's piece at CNET about the recently renewed push for a sales tax on Internet purchases, led by Massachusetts Representative Bill Delahunt. "At the moment, Americans who shop over the Internet from out-of-state vendors usually aren't required to pay sales taxes.
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Syndicated from Slashdot on Sat, 2010-07-03 Firefalcon writes "The UK Government launched Thursday the 'Your Freedom' website, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to 'identify laws that should be repealed.' In a recent tweet, Police State UK pointed out an article in the New Statesman which appeals for people to call on the Government to repeal the ill thought-out Digital Economy Act that was rushed through Parliament without su
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We are anarchists who live in the Bay. We are OUTRAGED by the murder of Oscar Grant, and
we are pissed at continuing police violence and disregard of communities' health and
safety. We're writing this letter to all the people who are going be in the streets the
day of Mehserle's verdict. ---- PEOPLE BEEN TALKING BEHIND OUR BACKS ---- Some folks have
been calling us "outside agitators".
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As Oakland braces for the reaction to the verdict to the Johannes Mehserle trial*, which
could come as soon as today or Tuesday, there are strong indications that activists from
other parts of the state plan to converge on Oakland. Several blogs are calling on their
members to converge in downtown Oakland the evening after the verdict is announced.
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