Atlanta: AHA Whistleblower Fired over Millions in Apparent Underpayments to Families
Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) Whistleblower Anthony Bostic believes he was fired this Monday in retaliation for his documented investigation into millions of dollars total in apparent AHA underpayments to thousands of relocated families in public housing.
More on White House Censorship of Global Warming Science
Word of the White House censoring federal climate scientists on global warming began leaking out to the press early in George W. Bush’s first term in office, but only in the last few years have a few federal employees themselves been willing to go on record with such accusations.
US Media: Distorting the Venezuelan media story
The story is framed in U.S. news media as a simple matter of censorship: Prominent Venezuelan TV station RCTV is being silenced by the authoritarian government of President Hugo Chávez, who is punishing the station for its political criticism of his government.
Would a Posada Trial be more relevant than Padilla's Trial?
Why Bush Protects one and Prosecutes the other.
More Papal Blundering in Brazil
The Pope has created a new international flap that deserves careful notice, because it tells us something important about the mindset of the man who wields institutional power over hundreds of millions of the Roman Catholic faithful.
Cape of Good Hope: One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go
I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning.
Book Review: Holding the Bully’s Coat – Canada and the U.S. Empire
This is a wonderfully refreshing examination of Canada’s role, current and historic, as supporter of and participant in the American Empire.
As 2008 approaches, Republicans fear Iraq war backlash
By next fall President Bush “may find himself standing alone” on his Iraq war policy. That was the warning from Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, commenting on Bush’s White House meeting with 11 Republican House members, May 10, in which they bluntly warned him that time is running out on the U.S. military role in Iraq.
New Light on Human Rights Abuses in Darfur Must Prompt U.S. Action at the UN
Reports from the UN Mission in Sudan indicated that new clashes between government and rebel forces erupted in North Darfur over the past weekend.
Imperialism, War, Globalization and Resistance
The globalization of capital and the rapid growth of modern industry, technology, information systems and media have been exploited by capital in an attempt to concentrate the control of resources, capital and wage labor.
