The Libya attack “talking points” were “heavily watered down” by the CIA before being passed along to the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The 94-word intelligence brief about the September 11 embassy attack in Benghazi was used by UN ambassador Susan Rice in the days following the incident. It was reportedly the result […]
The Libya attack “talking points” were “heavily watered down” by the CIA before being passed along to the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The 94-word intelligence brief about the September 11 embassy attack in Benghazi was used by UN ambassador Susan Rice in the days following the incident. It was reportedly the result […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker won’t be drinking coffee this week. “I won’t be able to afford it,” he tweeted. Booker is taking what he calls the Food Stamp challenge. Starting on Tuesday, he will spend one week eating and drinking only what he can buy with the typical allotment of stamps […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker won’t be drinking coffee this week. “I won’t be able to afford it,” he tweeted. Booker is taking what he calls the Food Stamp challenge. Starting on Tuesday, he will spend one week eating and drinking only what he can buy with the typical allotment of stamps […]
(MintPress) – After an election sold on the candidate who was most likely to prioritize job creation in the U.S., rather than shipping employment overseas, the U.S. finds itself in the midst of a trade agreement that would deliver the latter. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement seeks to expand trade relationships with Australia, […]
(MintPress) – After an election sold on the candidate who was most likely to prioritize job creation in the U.S., rather than shipping employment overseas, the U.S. finds itself in the midst of a trade agreement that would deliver the latter. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement seeks to expand trade relationships with Australia, […]
(MintPress) – Yesterday in 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department assassinated Fred Hampton, a revolutionary Black Panther leader in what Dr. Noam Chomsky has called “the gravest domestic crime during the Nixon administration.” Hampton’s murder came at the height of the Counter Intelligence Operations (COINTEL Pro) era of duplicitous […]
(MintPress) – Yesterday in 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department assassinated Fred Hampton, a revolutionary Black Panther leader in what Dr. Noam Chomsky has called “the gravest domestic crime during the Nixon administration.” Hampton’s murder came at the height of the Counter Intelligence Operations (COINTEL Pro) era of duplicitous […]
(MintPress) – For many throughout the world, terrorism has come to define their lives. In 1998, al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Naomi Kerongo, a Kenyan trade official at the time, spoke to the United Nations in 2008 about the toil the attack took on her: two years in a mental hospital, the […]
(MintPress) – For many throughout the world, terrorism has come to define their lives. In 1998, al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Naomi Kerongo, a Kenyan trade official at the time, spoke to the United Nations in 2008 about the toil the attack took on her: two years in a mental hospital, the […]
Clerical workers and longshoremen at the nation’s largest port complex will return to work Wednesday, eight days after they walked out in a crippling strike that prevented shippers from delivering billions of dollars in cargo across the country. “I’m really pleased to tell all of you that my 10,000 longshore workers in the ports of […]
Clerical workers and longshoremen at the nation’s largest port complex will return to work Wednesday, eight days after they walked out in a crippling strike that prevented shippers from delivering billions of dollars in cargo across the country. “I’m really pleased to tell all of you that my 10,000 longshore workers in the ports of […]
Military prosecutors are slowly working up the chain of command of a Marine Corps brig to show the government was justified in keeping an Army private tightly confined after he was arrested for allegedly sending classified information to the secret-busting website WikiLeaks. Pfc. Bradley Manning claims his nine months in maximum custody in Quantico, Va., […]
Military prosecutors are slowly working up the chain of command of a Marine Corps brig to show the government was justified in keeping an Army private tightly confined after he was arrested for allegedly sending classified information to the secret-busting website WikiLeaks. Pfc. Bradley Manning claims his nine months in maximum custody in Quantico, Va., […]
