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5 Years After U.S.-Backed Clashes, Palestinian Factions Fatah, Hamas Reach Unity Deal; DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: “The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law”; Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda as New CIA Director. Today’s Headlines * Storms … Continued
Court Rules Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence is Unconstitutional, Grants New Sentencing Hearing; Inside War-Torn Libya: As NATO Intensifies Air Strikes, Rebels Struggle to Break Gaddafi’s Control of Libya; Arab Spring: A Discussion on Libya, Egypt and the Mideast with Palestinian Writer Rula Jebreal, Author of “Miral” & Journalist Issandr El Amrani. Today’s Headlines * … Continued
Syrian Crackdown Intensifies: Over 150 Killed Since Friday as Assad Regime Attempts to Crush Protest Movement; First Tunisia, Then Egypt, Now Yemen? Yemeni President Saleh Agrees to Resign Within 30 Days; Protests Continue; WikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men at Guantánamo. Today’s Headlines * WikiLeaks Documents Reveal Over 150 Innocent Men … Continued
Oscar-Nominated Director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer Finalist Photojournalist Chris Hondros Killed on Front Lines of Libyan Conflict; Thought Control: Right-Wing Koch Brothers Caught Telling Thousands of Employees How to Vote; “Dr. Death” Agrees to Stop Evaluating Mentally Disabled Texas Death Row Prisoners. Today’s Headlines * Obama Administration Announces $25 Million in Aid to Libyan … Continued
“A Sea in Flames”: Ecologist Carl Safina on First Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Blowout; Voices from the Gulf: “One Year Later, We’re in the Same Situation as Last Year”; Deepwater Drilling Resumes Despite Unclear Impact of BP Spill: “It is All about Hiding the Oil, Not Cleaning It Up”; Death Toll from BP … Continued
Syria Lifts Emergency Law as Protesters Come Under Fire in Syrian City of Homs; Former Libyan Diplomat on His Defection and Call for Intensification of NATO Operations; Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change; As Radiation Continues to Leak from Japan Nuke Plant, Owners of Vermont … Continued
