by TD Daniell | January 28, 2015 | Current News
Juan Cole The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blog/195985/after-abdullah-can-saudi-arabia-reform-it-too-late# Just-deceased King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was born in 1924, before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, before the first jet aircraft flight and before...
by TD Daniell | January 27, 2015 | Current News
Norman Solomon ExposeFacts.org The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower. Sterling’s indictment four years ago received fleeting news coverage that recited the government’s charges. From the...
by PPJC Admin2 | January 26, 2015 | Current News
By DS Wright Firedoglake Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain both publicly stated that they are in favor of putting US troops smack into the middle of a civil war going on in Yemen. Having apparently learned nothing from the previous decade of faceplants in the...
by TD Daniell | January 26, 2015 | Current News
Chris Hedges TruthDig “American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds” of the earth, a...
by PPJC Admin2 | January 23, 2015 | Current News
By Office of Rep. Anna Eshoo [Ed. Note: This would be an excellent time to send Rep. Eshoo a note of appreciation. Email her here.] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, on the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, Congresswoman Anna...
by TD Daniell | January 22, 2015 | Current News
Medea Benjamin Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/22/federal-prison-sentence-begins-anti-drone-activist On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, will begin...
