Feb 07 2013
In the beginning there were libraries. No, seriously. We’ve been keeping track of things in libraries for a long, long time. You go back to the library of Alexandria, you go back to the old Roman libraries, the old Greek libraries a thousand years before that. Libraries have long been considered a part of the commons: common wisdom, common knowledge. There have been times in …
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Feb 07 2013
Ben Franklin thought it would be a good idea if we were able to communicate with each other via the postal service, and so he invented it. He didn’t actually invent it. It had been around Europe for a long time but he invented the American version of it first in the city of Philadelphia long before the American Revolution. The post office has been …
Feb 06 2013
The revelation came after a news blackout on reporting the existence of the base was broken by two US newspapers. The blackout had been agreed by American media organisations and the Obama administration bceause of the national security issues involved.
The first pilotless CIA mission flown from the base killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric and senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and a deputy in September 2011, reports said.
Another Predator drone strike killed …
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Feb 06 2013
The Federal Bureau of Prisons will hire an independent auditor to review the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, according to a statement released by the bureau. The move could impact thousands of juveniles in adult facilities who are frequently isolated from adult inmates, sometimes on the pretext of protecting their personal safety.
“The National Institute of Corrections will be awarding a contract in the weeks ahead to retain an independent auditor to examine the …
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Feb 06 2013
New York: Iran on Wednesday slammed as “hostile” new US sanctions aimed at preventing importers from buying Iranian oil using foreign currencies. The US sanctions, which took effect on Wednesday, will make it even tougher for Iran to get paid in cash for crude it sells to large oil buyers such as India and China.
“This is the latest ring in the series of hostile actions against Iran,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast.
“We are …
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Feb 06 2013
Tunisia’s prime minister has said that he will dissolve the Islamist-led government and form a national unity administration, following the killing of prominent secular opposition leader Shokri Belaid in front of his home.
Hamadi Jebali announced during a speech to the nation on Wednesday that he will form a cabinet of technocrats to run the country until elections are held.
“After the failure of negotiations between parties on a cabinet reshuffle, I decided to form a small …
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Feb 06 2013
Students at Duke University today protested a fraternity party dubbed the “Racist Rager,” at which attendees dressed as Asians, including wearing conical hats, geisha costumes and an inflatable sumo suit.
On Tuesday, the school’s Asian Student Alliance plastered the campus with fliers that included the fraternity’s original email invitation that to a Feb. 1 party called “Kappa Sigma Asia Prime,” as well as photographs of frat members and other partygoers dressed in Asian-stereotype costumes.
The original invitation, …
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Feb 06 2013
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday directed the Justice Department to release to the two Congressional Intelligence Committees classified documents discussing the legal justification for killing, by drone strikes and other means, American citizens abroad who are considered terrorists.
The White House announcement appears to refer to a long, detailed 2010 memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel justifying the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who had joined Al Qaeda in …
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Feb 06 2013
But the current frontline of the austerity agenda is the assault on the US Postal Service, a vital public service that is older than the country. And it is advancing rapidly. On Wednesday, the Postal Service announced that Saturday first-class mail delivery is scheduled for elimination at the beginning of August—the latest and deepest in a series of cuts that threatens to so undermine the service that it will be ripe for bartering off to …
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Feb 06 2013
“One of the things that I find most interesting is the possibility, the probability, in fact, I will simply say: Ronald Reagan killed 20 first graders in Newtown Connecticut. Now I can hear right wing heads exploding all over the country. In the roughly two months since then, Ronald Reagan’s also been responsible for more than 1500 gun deaths in the United States or …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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