The Gates Incident by Dave Lindorff July 23, 2009 The point about the arrest Monday by a Cambridge Police sergeant of Harvard Distinguished Professor Henry “Skip” Gates is not that the police initially thought the celebrated  public intellectual, PBS host and MacArthur Award winner might have been a crook who had broken into Gates’ rented home.  Anyone capable [...]

by Steve Gorman July 14, 2009 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two major advocacy groups for the homeless on Tuesday ranked Los Angeles as the “meanest” city in the United States, citing a Skid Row police crackdown they say has criminalized poverty and homelessness there.

by A.C. Thompson July 10, 2009 Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The reports — broadcast Thursday by WTAE TV in Pittsburgh and WDSU in New Orleans — focus on two unsolved crimes: the near-fatal shooting of Donnell Herrington, who [...]

This is an amazing film that opens the door into what was really going on when the Kennedy Administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis… as well as how Vietnam policy dramatically changed once Kennedy was no longer in office. Robert McNamara gives us 11 lessons that America needs to learn so that we don’t make [...]

by Chris Hedges July 6, 2009 Tearyan Brown became a father when he was 16. He did what a lot of inner-city kids desperate to make money do. He sold drugs. He was arrested and sent to jail three years later for dealing marijuana and PCP on the streets of Trenton, N.J., mostly to white kids driving [...]

by Matt Taibbi July 2, 2009 Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on -the Wall Street Bubble Mafia- – investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi’s piece is -an hysterical [...]

by William K. Black July 1, 2009 President Obama’s financial regulation proposal is doomed to fail. Why? Because it was developed by people who don’t believe in regulation.

The Iraqi authorities are holding five American contractors on suspicion of “murder,” but the US is spinning a different story. This could be a major test for Obama on contractor accountability. By Jeremy Scahill June 9, 2009 Over the past few days, there has been quite a buzz on listserves frequented by private security contractors and industry representatives [...]

Por Fabiana Frayssinet RÍO DE JANEIRO, 26 may (IPS) – Ambientalistas, activistas humanitarios y otras organizaciones sociales se movilizan en Brasil por el esclarecimiento del asesinato de Paulo Santos Souza, un sindicalista de la pesca que denunciaba irregularidades en la construcción de un gasoducto para Petrobras.