Jan
10
2013
In an admission of government guilt, Military Judge Denise Lind declared at a pretrial hearing this past Tuesday that Army Private Bradley Manning’s detention at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia was indeed “more rigorous than necessary.” She also stated that his treatment “became excessive in relation to legitimate government interests.” Manning was arrested in May 2010 and has been awaiting …
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Jan
10
2013
California Governor Jerry Brown, in his first press conference of the New Year, declared an end to the emergency announced 6 years ago by Arnold Schwarzenegger on California’s prison system. California’s prison system has been under federal oversight since 2005 to reduce overcrowding and improve inmate healthcare. Citing the billions of dollars that the state has spent to address the …
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Jan
10
2013
Tomorrow marks the eleventh anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. The notorious facility received its first 20 prisoners on January 11, 2002. In the years since, shocking revelations of prisoner abuse, prisoner suicide and repeated desecrations of the Koran have dogged both the Bush and Obama administrations.
As recently as September 2012 Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, …
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Jan
10
2013
Angel Haze from Michigan!
We played the song “Heart” on today’s show.
Jan
10
2013
A proposed international treaty to address the damaging effects of mercury should include specific provisions to protect the health of children and other vulnerable populations, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments are to meet in Geneva beginning January 13, 2013, for a fifth and final round of talks for the treaty. Mercury is a toxic metal that attacks the central nervous system and is particularly harmful to children.
So far, the draft treaty has been focused …
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Jan
10
2013
By Wendell Roelf
CAPE TOWN | Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:56am EST
(Reuters) – South African police fired rubber bullets at rock-throwing farm laborers in the western grape-growing region on Thursday, marking the second straight day of clashes in a country braced for spreading labor unrest.
Hundreds of striking workers seeking higher wages and better working conditions again blocked a major highway running through the town of De Doorns, about 100 kms (60 miles) east of Cape Town, …
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Jan
10
2013
PARIS — Three female Kurdish activists were found dead Thursday at an information center for Kurds in Paris, all of them shot in the head in what a French official described as execution-style killings.
The victims included Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the militant nationalist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the deaths were “no doubt executions” and called them “intolerable.”
The three women were last seen inside the information center of the …
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Jan
09
2013
We’ll get an update on the case of Bradley Manning, the alleged source of secret government documents to Wikileaks. And, California Governor Jerry Brown asks the federal government to back off from overseeing the state’s prison system. Plus, activists in LA mark the 11th anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, calling for its closure. …
Jan
09
2013
Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Sri Lankan domestic worker for killing a baby in her care in 2005 in a case that has been widely condemned by rights groups.
The maid, Rizana Nafeek, had denied killing the four-month-old boy.
Her supporters say she was only 17 at the time of the killing. They say her execution is a breach of international child rights.
The Sri Lankan government condemned the execution, which it said took place despite numerous clemency …
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Jan
09
2013
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ruled that the postponement of President Hugo Chavez’s inauguration for a new term in office is legal.
Earlier, the National Assembly voted to give Mr Chavez as much time as he needed to recover from cancer surgery.
The opposition argues that Mr Chavez’s current mandate expires on 10 January, the day he is due to be sworn in.
Mr Chavez is in hospital in Cuba and has suffered complications caused by a lung infection.
Supreme …
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