Egypt Election: Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Could Face...
July 2010 Archive
Friday, July 30, 2010
- Headlines for July 30, 2010
- Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers’ Groups
- Dozens of Immigrant Rights Activists Arrested in Arizona
- Dave Zirin on "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love"
- Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts
Thursday, July 29, 2010
- Headlines for July 29, 2010
- On Eve of Major Protests, Federal Judge Blocks Key Provisions of Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law
- Patrick Cockburn on Missing Billions in Iraq and Soaring Cancer & Infant Mortality Rates in Fallujah
- In Historic Vote, UN Declares Water a Fundamental Human Right
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
- Headlines for July 28, 2010
- WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: "Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government"
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
- Headlines for July 27, 2010
- WikiLeaks Founder Says "Evidence of War Crimes" in Afghan War Logs, White House Downplays Leak, Claiming "No Broad New Revelations"
- Guardian Editor on Coverage of Afghan War Logs: European Audience "Troubled More...by the Toll this War is Taking on Innocent People"
- "WikiLeaks Is Not One Person...We Are All the Threat"–Hacker Magazine Editor Says WikiLeaks Is Bigger Than Julian Assange
Monday, July 26, 2010
- Headlines for July 26, 2010
- The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War
Friday, July 23, 2010
- Headlines for July 23, 2010
- As Senate Dems Give Up on Climate Bill, What Does the Future Hold for US Energy Policy?
- Three of Every Four Oil & Gas Lobbyists Worked for Federal Government
- Manchin Appointing Fmr. Aide to Replace Byrd "Kabuki Theater Politics" to "Make Sure Coal’s Will Be Done in the Senate"
- Using Social Media to Build Community...and Resistance
- "Reclaiming the Democratic Majority"–Progressive Activists Organize to Change Democrats in Congress
Thursday, July 22, 2010
- Headlines for July 22, 2010
- Jesse Jackson Calls Shirley Sherrod a "True Freedom Fighter" Who Fought Back Against "Attempted Character Assassination"
- Nevada Leads Nation in Unemployment, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies
- Reid Leads in Nevada Senate Race After Series of Controversial Statements by GOP Challenger Sharron Angle
- "Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable"–Majora Carter on the Struggle for Environmental Justice
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
- Headlines for July 21, 2010
- Lead in Lipstick? Coal Tar in Shampoo? As New Bill Calls for Stricter Rules on Beauty Products, a Debate Between Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Founder and Cosmetics Industry Spokesperson
- Skin Deep: Online Cosmetics Safety Database Rates 62,000+ Beauty Products
- Actress and Cancer Survivor Fran Drescher Speaks Out in Support of New Bill Seeking Stricter Cosmetics Rules
- Killings in Kashmir by Indian Forces Spark Protests
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
- Headlines for July 20, 2010
- US & G8 Funding Cuts for AIDS "Will Be Counted in Human Lives"–Stephen Lewis Blasts Obama, Rich Nations over AIDS Policy
- EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
- Gulf Coast Residents Outraged that Money Earned on Cleanup Might Be Subtracted from $20 Billion Claim Fund
- Prosecutors Charge White Man for Racially Motivated Shooting in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Monday, July 19, 2010
- Headlines for July 19, 2010
- "Top Secret America" Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System
- Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System
- Social Security Under Attack: Cuts Proposed, Higher Retirement Age Suggested
Friday, July 16, 2010
- Headlines for July 16, 2010
- Goldman Sachs Settles Civil Fraud Case for $550M — Less Than It Reportedly Expected, and With No Admission of Criminal Wrongdoing
- The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It
- Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Resentenced to 10-Year Term — Nearly Five Times Her Original Sentence
Thursday, July 15, 2010
- Headlines for July 15, 2010
- "They Have Terrorized Our Community": Anti-Immigrant List Targets Latinos in Utah
- "Tea Party in Sonora": Ken Silverstein of Harper’s Says Arizona is Laboratory for Radical GOP Policies
- Study: Global Warming to Bring Increased Heat Waves to US
- Himalayan Glaciers Melting Faster Than Anywhere Else in World; Impact Could Devastate Over 1 Billion People
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
- Headlines for July 14, 2010
- In the Shadow of Ruins: Haitians Decry Conditions in Massive Tent City Across from Destroyed National Palace
- Land Ownership at the Crux of Haiti’s Stalled Reconstruction
- Rape in the Camps: Lacking Security, Women Organize to Protect Themselves
- "When Everybody Comes and Has a Solution for Haiti, It Only Creates a Problem"–Sister Mary Finnick on Recovery Efforts
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
- Headlines for July 13, 2010
- Sean Penn on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake, Recovery Efforts, and Why He Decided to Manage a Tent Camp of 55,000 Displaced Haitians
Monday, July 12, 2010
- Headlines for July 12, 2010
- Democracy Now! in Port-au-Prince: Patrick Elie on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake
- Beverly Bell: There Is No Plan for Permanently Housing the 1.9 Million Haitians Who Lost Their Homes in the Quake
- Displaced Haitians: "We Can’t Continue in This Situation Anymore"
Friday, July 09, 2010
- Headlines for July 09, 2010
- Report: 27,000 Abandoned Wells Pose Threat to Gulf Coast
- ProPublica: BP Texas Refinery Had Huge Toxic Release Just Before Gulf Blowout
- Photographer Harassed by BP Security, Detained by Police While on Assignment at BP Texas Refinery
- Outrage in Oakland: Transit Officer Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter — Not Murder — in Killing of Unarmed Oscar Grant
- Gary Rivlin on "Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business"
Thursday, July 08, 2010
- Headlines for July 08, 2010
- Juan Gonzalez Remembers Puerto Rican Analyst Juan Manuel García-Passalacqua
- Military Psychologists Face Complaints with Licensing Boards over Roles at Guantánamo
- Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats"
- A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwynne Dyer
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
- Headlines for July 07, 2010
- After US Praise for Netanyahu’s "Restraint," Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Asks Obama to Imagine Life as a Palestinian Under Occupation
- BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Getting Sick, Exxon Valdez Survivor Warns of Long-Term Health Effects
- Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast: Government and BP Place More Restrictions on Journalists Covering the Oil Spill
- As Dalai Lama Marks 75th Birthday, a Look at His Views on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Tibet
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
- Headlines for July 06, 2010
- Scientist Working with Government Says BP Restricting Access to Study Gushing Oil Well
- Environmentalist Facing 3-Year Prison Sentence for Unfurling Banners in Senate Office Building
- Plaintiff in ACLU Suit Challenging Government No-Fly List Describes Struggle, First Against Deportation, Then to Be Allowed to Board a Plane
- "Promised Land"–New Doc Follows Struggles over Land in South Africa
- Puerto Rican Attorney, Historian & Analyst Juan Manuel García-Passalacqua, 73, Dies
Monday, July 05, 2010
Friday, July 02, 2010
- Headlines for July 02, 2010
- Despite House Passage, Feingold Maintains Opposition to Financial Reform Bill as "Too Weak" in Face of Wall St. Recklessness
- Canadian Civil Liberties Group Mulls Lawsuit as Details of Mass Arrests, Unprecedented Powers at G2O Come to Light
- Leading Canadian Peace Activist Targeted by Home Break-In in Lead-Up to G20
- Maude Barlow: "The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History"
- In First Address on Immigration, Obama Urges Middle Ground Between Blanket Amnesty and Mass Deportations
- Grand Isle, Louisiana: Voices from a Community Devastated by BP Oil Spill
Thursday, July 01, 2010
- Headlines for July 01, 2010
- Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone on the Story that Brought Down Gen. McChrystal and Exposed Widening Disputes Behind the US Debacle in Afghanistan
- Rep. John Conyers and Out of Afghanistan Caucus Oppose Obama Admin’s $33B Escalation of Afghan War
- Fmr. Marine, State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh Is First US Official to Resign over Afghan War
Job Openings
Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
