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Private Prison Industry To Profit From Supreme Court Ruling On ‘Show Me Your Papers’

Archives for June 2012

Boland Amendment Redux

(CHICAGO) – In 1982, the House passed the Boland Amendment. It was attached as a rider to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Act. It cut off CIA and other covert Contra funding. Washington backed them against Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). He led a popular uprising against the hated U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship. Bipartisan support backed […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
In this April 5, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at the University of California at Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

(CHICAGO) - In 1982, the House passed the Boland Amendment. It was attached as a rider to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Act. It cut off CIA and other covert Contra funding. Washington backed them against Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). He led a popular uprising against the hated U.S.-backed Somoza

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Federal Court Upholds EPA’s Global Warming Rules

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the most significant decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants. The rules, which had been challenged by industry groups and several […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson during an interview with The Associated Press at EPA Headquarters in Washington. A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the most significant decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants. The rules, which had been challenged by industry groups and

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Advancing The Ball For War On Syria

(CHICAGO) – What’s ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO’s 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington considers that notion quaint. Rule of law provisions don’t […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

(CHICAGO) - What's ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO's 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington

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Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data – Just Not With You

Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile all analyze your information to send you targeted ads for their own services or from outside companies. At least tens of thousands of […]

Megha Rajagopalan
By Megha Rajagopalan
Cell phone companies hold on to location data for years, providing information to police as well as other companies. (Photo is a SoftBank X02HT(HTC) taken by K.O.)

Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile all analyze your information to send you targeted ads for their own services or from outside companies. At least tens

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Obama’s Last Move On Illegal Immigrants Resulted In Little Change

Last week, the White House announced what could be a big shift in immigration policy, exempting many young illegal immigrants from deportation in the short run. But this wasn’t Obama’s first directive to extend protection to this group. A year ago, the administration ordered broader discretion in the prosecution of illegal immigrants. Among the factors to consider were […]

Suevon Lee
By Suevon Lee
President Barack Obama speaks at The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference at the Walt Disney World Resort, Friday, June 22, 2012, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Last week, the White House announced what could be a big shift in immigration policy, exempting many young illegal immigrants from deportation in the short run. But this wasn’t Obama’s first directive to extend protection to this group. A year ago, the administration ordered broader discretion in the prosecution of illegal immigrants. Among the

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Unfair Trade? An Examination Of US Politicians’ Share Sales

The latest instalment in an extended investigation by the Washington Post into American lawmakers and their personal finances revealed that members of Congress frequently trade in companies while simultaneously dealing with legislation that would affect that particular stock. The Washington Post examined 45,000 individual congressional stock transactions that occurred between 2007 to 2010 to reveal […]

Will Fitzgibbon
By Will Fitzgibbon

The latest instalment in an extended investigation by the Washington Post into American lawmakers and their personal finances revealed that members of Congress frequently trade in companies while simultaneously dealing with legislation that would affect that particular stock. The Washington Post examined 45,000 individual congressional stock

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