Tonight, I watched a PBS documentary, Road to Memphis, that followed the parallel paths that lead James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King to the night of the assassination in 1968. Those of us who were in Memphis in those days were forever branded by what happened, but that’s another story. The program reminded me […]
Haunting Photo of Slave Children Found in Carolina AtticAOL Newsby Mara GayJune 11, 2010 This rare photo found in a North Carolina attic depicts two slave children. In April, the photo was found at a moving sale in Charlotte, accompanied by a document detailing the sale of "John" for $1,150 in 1854. "I buy stuff […]
U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British New York Times By SARAH LYALL and JULIA WERDIGIER June 10, 2010 LONDON — Spewing oil and alienating Americans with its chief executive’s impolitic remarks, BP may be Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. But in Britain, where the company is a mainstay of the […]
[see throw him out of the party… and GOP rebukes Knotts for Haley slur] Jake Knotts Censured by Lexington County Republican Party Over Nikki Haley Remark WLTX by Tony Santaella 6/10/2010 State Senator Jake Knotts Lexington County, SC [WLTX] – The Lexington County Republican Party has voted to censure State Senator Jake Knotts over his […]
Congressional Oversight Panel rips AIG bailout AMERICAblog by Chris in Paris June 10, 2010 The fingers are being pointed directly at Hank Paulson during the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve which would be Tim Geithner at that time and location. Taxpayers will never see their return on this and Goldman is still getting a […]
Take a minute to sign our Physicians for Human Rights petition demanding a full investigation of human experimentation in the CIA torture program [link]. It’s the right thing to do… Director of Compliance and Oversight Division Kristina Borror 1101 Wootton Parkway Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20852 Dear Director of Compliance and Oversight Division Borror, Recent […]
South Carolina Senator Jake Knotts calls President Barack Obama a ’raghead’ The National Post By Mary Vallis June 4, 2010 Politics 101: Don’t use racial slurs. Someone should have told South Carolina Senator Jake Knotts before he opened his yap this week and blurted “ragheads.” Here’s what he told an Internet talk show about Republican gubernatorial candidate […]
Whoops! Yesterday, while I was reading the Physicians for Human Rights Report and looking over the Zubaydah Articles by emptywheel, Jeff Kaye, and Jason Leopold, I missed Jeff’s post yesterday on FDL and a New York Times editorial that actually should have been in the punch line to my own post [breaking free…]… Exclusive: Senate […]
The slow emergence of our understanding about the Torture Program has been excruciating, particularly with respect to the now legendary Abu Zubaydah. He was captured on March 28th, 2002, almost a year before we invaded Iraq. When we first learned about him specifically, we didn’t know that stories about him were the ones we’d been […]