Jan 19 2012
Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline Deal in Victory for Environmentalists
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that his administration is rejecting the Keystone XL Tarsands pipeline planned from Alberta, Canada, to the US Gulf Coast. Activists are declaring a cautious victory over the rejection of the 1,700 mile pipeline project which attracted some of the largest protests in the history of environmental movement last year. Mass public opposition to the pipeline …
Comments Off on Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline Deal in Victory for Environmentalists
Led by General Electric’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt, President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness released a report yesterday suggesting major changes to the US corporate tax code which they say would stimulate the economy and create jobs. The 27-member body recommends widening the corporate tax base and decreasing rates. It also suggests that the US change to a territorial corporate …
LA County Officials lead by Sheriff Lee Baca announced last week that crime rates in Los Angeles County fell by more than four percent in 2011, with cities like Compton seeing a 40% reduction in homicides over the last few years. Sheriff Baca credited citywide initiatives like education-based prison programs and improved police networking for the decrease. According to …
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the Virginia Dover Air Force Base scandal over the dumping of soldier remains at a landfill. It is read by Ron Kovic. 
Veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and best-selling author, Chris Hedges, has filed a federal suit against the Obama Administration for provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that allows indefinite detention of American citizens. The Obama Administration had initially opposed the bill which is also referred to as the Homeland Battlefield Bill, but reversed its position when Congress passed it. President …
Users of the internet, attempting to look up information from the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, will find they can only view their search results for a few seconds today, before their screens are blacked out. Wikipedia pages now read the slogan: “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge.” It goes on to read, “Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering …
Writings by Buffy St. Marie, Rigoberta Menchu and even William Shakespeare were banned from Tucson, Arizona classrooms last week. The Tucson Unified School District board voted 4 to 1 last Tuesday to allow at least 50 works, including some art pieces, to be swept from schools in order to comply with a 2010 state law that prohibits ethnic studies courses. …
The United States government, last Friday, formally restored diplomatic relations with the government of Myanmar, or Burma, as it was known before the ruling military Junta changed the nation’s name. The restoration of relations came on the heels of an announcement that the Myanmar regime had released 651 political prisoners. Among those arrested as political prisoners in the course …
