MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Cheney's indictment in south Texas moves forward
Associated Press - by Christopher Sherman - Nov. 20, 2008 (News Report)
The grand jury traced a sketchy line between Cheney's influence over the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ...
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Dick Cheney charged over abuse in private prisons
Daily Telegraph - by Tom Leonard - Nov. 19, 2008 (News Report)
A grand jury in south Texas indicted Mr Cheney and Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General, on state charges ...
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Scientific impossibility: Did FBI get their man in Bruce Ivins?
The Baltimore Examiner - by Deborah Rudacille - Nov. 18, 2008 (Investigative Report)
The single most important piece of scientific evidence that raises doubt on whether Bruce Ivins was the mastermind ...
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At OpEdNews: Senate testimony by police captain reveals 9 sticks of missing dynamite in 'Omaha Two' bombing case
Op Ed News - by Michael Richardson - Nov. 20, 2008 (Investigative Report)
"Platner explained 'hard-core militants' had been active in Omaha for two years."
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Activists Seek Executive Order Banning Torture
Inter Press Service - by Wolfgang Kerler - Nov. 18, 2008 (News Report)
Above all, past abuses should be investigated, documented and publicly reported by a non-partisan commission with ...
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Mexico drug wars spill across the border
Los Angeles Times - by Richard A. Serrano, Sam Quinones - Nov. 16, 2008 (News Report)
The drug violence that has left about 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United ...
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FBI joins investigation of Klan initiation death
CNN - Nov. 13, 2008 (News Report)
Fred Oswold, chief of criminal investigations for the sheriff's office, said the Sons of Dixie Klan group is small ...
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Guantanamo Bay: Obama's options
Aljazeera - Nov. 13, 2008 (News Analysis)
Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has said repeatedly that he will shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay ...
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Obama Advisers: No Charges Likely Versus Interrogators
Common Dreams - by Lara Jakes Jordan - Nov. 18, 2008 (News Report)
Two Obama advisers said there's little - if any - chance that the incoming president's Justice Department will go ...
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Female KKK Recruit Shot And Killed As She Left Initiation Ritual
Huffington Post - Nov. 11, 2008 (News Report)
An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed ...
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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The Former Attorney General’s Legal Bills
New York Times - Nov. 20, 2008 (Editorial)
It is galling to think that Mr. Gonzales, whose department trampled over the rights of so many people, is having ...
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A chink in the US-Mexico border fence
The Guardian - by James Ridgeway - Oct. 14, 2008 (Opinion)
Close to the nation's busiest highway border crossing, from San Diego County to Tijuana, a border fence cuts across ...
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Politically, crime doesn't pay
Boston Globe - Oct. 9, 2008 (Editorial)
IF THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign debate were a reliable gauge of the nation's problems, the country would be ...
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Holder's DC Legacy: Not Much
Mother Jones - Nov. 20, 2008 (Opinion)
If Democrats are looking for a crusader to clean house at the Justice Department and elsewhere in the federal ...
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California Youth Defeat ‘Lock ‘em Up’ Politics
New America Media - by Raj Jayadev - Nov. 9, 2008 (Opinion)
Eclipsed by the enormity of a nation voting in a black President, and a statewide cultural war over gay marriage, ...
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Lehman Fails, Cops Get Caught Eating Doughnuts
Bloomberg - by Jonathan Weil - Sep. 17, 2008 (Opinion)
Merely letting companies fail isn't enough, though. For a free-market economy to work, investors must feel ...
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Why we were falsely arrested
Seattle Post Intelligencer - by Amy Goodman - Sep. 4, 2008 (Opinion)
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in ...
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Dissent doesn't belong in a cage
Seattle Post Intelligencer - by Amy Goodman - Aug. 15, 2008 (Opinion)
The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of ...
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The Great Switch: Banks Rob People
TruthOut - by Jim Crotty - Sep. 24, 2008 (Opinion)
Having driven our economy to the edge of financial destruction, the Lords of Finance now want the public to put up ...
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Charges Dropped Against DN! Journalists - Investigation Needed
Democracy Now - Sep. 19, 2008 (Press Release)
Upon learning of the news, Democracy Now! Host, Amy Goodman said, "It's good that these false charges have finally ...