DN!: A debate on Reverend Wright & Obama”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/30/obama_repudiates_ex_pastor_for_controversial
April 30, 2008

Obama Repudiates Ex-Pastor over Controversial Remarks

On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama said he was “outraged” and “saddened” by “divisive and destructive” comments by his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Since the weekend, Reverend Wright has publicly defended himself after weeks of being lambasted by politicians and pundits for his sermons. We hear from [...]

NYT: CIA Allowed to Torture As Necessary

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/28/headlines#3
Bush Administration Claims It Can Ignore Anti-Torture Laws
The New York Times reports the Justice Department has told Congress that US intelligence operatives can legally use interrogation methods that are banned by US and international law if they are attempting to thwart terrorist attacks. The letters from the Justice Department show that the Bush administration believes [...]

Sean Bell

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/28/headlines#1
NYPD Officers Acquitted in Killing of Sean Bell

In New York, a coalition of civil rights advocates are calling for a permanent state-level special prosecutor to handle police brutality cases following the acquittal of three New York police detectives in the killing of Sean Bell. The twenty-three-year-old Bell died in a hail of fifty police bullets [...]

US Ally in Latin America: Colombia President Álvaro Uribe

This is an interview (spanish then english below) with Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa on Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe.
SPANISH
http://www.publico.es/072200/correa/ecuador/colombia/farc/uribe/reyes/ingrid
ENTREVISTA EXCLUSIVA CON RAFAEL CORREA, PRESIDENTE DE ECUADOR
“Mis manos están limpias y sin sangre, algo que Uribe no puede decir”
En una entrevista con Público, el jefe de Estado ecuatoriano acusa al Gobierno colombiano de mentir y a [...]

Alternet: “Dear Latin America…” Spoof Letter; “Opt Condor” ReDux?

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/83602/
Dear Latin America: You Don’t Mind if We Just Park this Aircraft Carrier Offshore, Do You?
Posted by BoRev, BoRev at 5:35 AM on April 27, 2008.
Dear dumb Latins.
We Americans are super sorry about all the misunderstandings we’ve had throughout the years, particularly all those times where you have misinterpreted our good [...]

Sludge is good for you? US gov. thinks so and tests it on poor African American children.

What? Me worry?  Nah…

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/23/sludge_tested_as_lead_poisoning_fix
Sludge Tested as Lead Poisoning Fix in Poor Black Neighborhoods
Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The Associated Press reported Sunday that [...]

Latest on the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007″

AN ACT
To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid [...]

Current State: FOOD & POVERTY!

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/23/headlines#4
World Food Program Warns About “Silent Tsunami”
In other news, the World Food Program has begun describing the global food crisis as a silent tsunami that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger and poverty. World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran said a large-scale global response is needed to [...]

Thinking Machines 1995 article

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines
A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the basics of business.
From: Inc. Magazine, September 1995 | By: Gary A. Taubes
The brilliant start-up that ignited an industry never grasped the basics
Some day we will build a thinking machine. It will be a truly [...]

Chomsky: “The Most Wanted List: International Terrorism”

The Most Wanted List
International Terrorism
By Noam Chomsky
On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. “The world is a better place without this man in it,” State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said: “one way or the other he was brought to justice.” Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell added that [...]