Death Penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Anti-Execution State Brings Complications, Not Closure; Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Bid & His Unanswered Letters to the White House.
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As Chicago Pays Victims of Past Torture, Police Face New Allegations of Abuse at Homan Square; As Torture Victims Win $5.5M in Reparations, Could Chicago Be a Model for Police Abuses Nationwide? We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY.
Seattle Mobilizes to Shut Down Shell Operations
As Train Crash Death Toll Reaches 7, GOP Votes to Cut Amtrak Budget by $250M & Delay Safety Upgrades; “Irresponsible & Reckless”: Environmentalists Decry Obama’s Approval for Shell Drilling in Arctic; Seattle Mobilizes to Shut Down Shell Operations to Protest Arctic Oil Drilling; 30 Million Gallons Under the Sea: Five Years After BP Disaster, New … Continued
Wisconsin Activists to Continue Protests After Cop Avoids Charges in Killing of Tony Robinson
Wisconsin Activists to Continue Protests After Cop Avoids Charges in Killing of Tony Robinson; Revolt over TPP: Senate Dems Rebuke Obama by Blocking Debate on Secretive Trade Deal; As Internal Docs Show Major Overreach, Why Is FBI Spying on Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline? MOVE Bombing at 30: “Barbaric” 1985 Philadelphia Police Attack Killed 11 … Continued
Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash; Exclusive: CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Speaks Out Upon Sentencing to 3.5 Years in Prison.
EU Seeks UN Backing for Military Action to Stop Wave of Migrants Fleeing “Horrific Abuse” in Libya; As Feds Probe Baltimore Police, Cops in Freddie Gray Case Seek Removal of Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby; Will Adnan Syed, Focus of Breakout Podcast Hit “Serial,” Get a New Trial in Maryland?
Court Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and Uncertainty for PATRIOT Act; Omar Khadr, Child Prisoner Who Claimed Torture at Gitmo, Freed on Bail in Canada During U.S. Appeal.
Robert Jay Lifton on How Climate Change Joins Nuclear War in Threatening Human Survival; Robert Jay Lifton, Author of “The Nazi Doctors”: Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged.
Democracy Now – May 6, 2015
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture; Human Rights Watch: Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions.