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New York City Approves Municipal ID Cards for Undocumented Immigrants; Journalist Allan Nairn Threatened for Exposing Indonesian Pres. Candidate’s Role in Mass Killings; “Counter-Revolution of 1776”: Was U.S. Independence War a Conservative Revolt in Favor of Slavery? HeadlinesJune 27, 2014 Report: ISIS Militants Massacre Up to 190 People Obama Requests $500 Million to Arm, … Continued
#FreeAJStaff: Al Jazeera Reporter Sentenced in Absentia Decries Egypt’s Imprisonment of 3 Colleagues; “Trans Healthcare Now!” Lawsuit Seeks End to Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender New Yorkers; 50 Years After U.S. Launched Secret War on Laos, Unexploded Bombs Still Killing Civilians. HeadlinesJune 25, 2014 Maliki Calls Unity Gov’t Calls a “Coup” Against Iraq U.S. Flies … Continued
Should Obama Go to Tehran? How a U.S.-Iran “Grand Bargain” Could Help the Crisis in Iraq; Can the President Strike an American Anywhere in the World?: Drone Memo Raises Troubling Questions; Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands. HeadlinesJune 24, 2014 Court Releases Redacted … Continued
“Journalism in Egypt is a Crime”: Global Outcry After 3 Al Jazeera Reporters Sentenced to 7-10 Years; “Baghdad is a Frightened City”: As ISIS Gains Ground, Iraqi Capital Gripped by Fear & Uncertainty; Pressuring Israel, Presbyterian Church Divests From Firms Tied to Occupation of Palestinian Land. HeadlinesJune 23, 2014 Al Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to … Continued
NYC’s $40M Central Park 5 Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse; Rep. Colleen Hanabusa Proposes Ban on U.S. Military Deployment in Iraq Without Congressional Backing; Iraq’s Next PM? Ahmed Chalabi, Chief Peddler of False WMDs, Meets U.S. Officials as Malaki Falters; A Plan Only Banksters Will Love: WikiLeaks Reveals Trade Deal Pushing … Continued
Meet the Navajo Activist Who Got the Washington Redskins’ Trademark Revoked: Amanda Blackhorse; “A Neo-Liberal Trojan Horse”: Dave Zirin on Brazil’s Mass Protests Against World Cup Displacement; Argentina Alleges Extortion After Supreme Court Sides With Vulture Funds Preying on Sovereign Debt. HeadlinesJune 19, 2014 Report: U.S. Conditions Iraq Military Intervention on Maliki Resignation Iraqi … Continued
Will Iraq or Syria Survive? UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sectarian War & the Disastrous ’03 Invasion; “Colonialism is Inhuman”: Diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi on the Lessons of Algeria’s Independence Struggle. HeadlinesJune 18, 2014 Sunni Militants Seize Iraq’s Main Oil Refinery Rouhani: Iran “Will Not Hesitate” to Protect Shiite Sites in Iraq Report: Obama Admin … Continued
Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion; 50 Years Later, How a New Freedom Summer Could Mobilize the South’s Disenfranchised People of Color; “The Last Magazine”: One Year After Death, Michael Hastings’ Lost Novel Satirizes Corporate Media. HeadlinesJune 17, 2014 U.S. to Deploy 275 Military Personnel … Continued
As Obama Considers Drone Strikes in Iraq, Could U.S. Military Action Worsen Sectarian Conflict? Dave Zirin on the World Cup You Won’t See on TV: Protests, Tear Gas, Displaced Favela Residents. HeadlinesJune 16, 2014 U.S. Considers Talks with Iran over Widening Iraq Crisis Manning Criticizes Limits on Media Coverage of U.S. Wars Kenya: Gunmen … Continued
