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A Bahraini anti-government protester holds up a picture of jailed Saudi Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during clashes between police and protesters in Sanabis, Bahrain, a suburb of the capital Manama, Wednesday night, Oct. 15, 2014. The well-known Shiite cleric was executed January 2, 2016 in Saudi Arabia, sparking fears of renewed unrest from his supporters in the kingdom and neighboring Bahrain. Anti-government graffiti on the wall behind her reads, "We are steadfast and committed to our oath."

Crucifixion Sentence Of Political Dissident Sparks Backlash That Threatens Saudi Monarchy

Archives for October 2014

New Research Shows That The BP Oil Spill Left An Oily “Bathub Ring” The Size Of Rhode Island On The Sea Floor

The study estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil coagulated on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico around the damaged Deepwater Horizons oil rig.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows. The study by David Valentine, the chief scientist on the federal damage assessment research ships, estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil coagulated on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico around the damaged

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UC Berkeley Students Petition To Get Bill Maher Speech Cancelled Because He’s A “Blatant Bigot”

“The First Amendment gives him the right to speak his mind, but it doesn’t give him the right to speak at such an elevated platform as the commencement. That’s a privilege his racist and bigoted remarks don’t give him.”

Maggie Lit for Campus Reform
By Maggie Lit for Campus Reform
bill maher

Students at UC-Berkeley (UCB) are protesting liberal talk-show host Bill Maher’s scheduled December commencement speech through an online petition that has gathered 1,500 signatures. The Change.org petition was initiated by Marium Navid, an Associated Students of UC Senator, and backed by the Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian Coalition

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Saudi Arabia Carries Out 61st Execution Of 2014

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Islamic sharia law.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
Saudi Arabia

Reports: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani convicted of heroin smuggling Tuesday, the interior ministry said, bringing the number executed in two weeks to four. It said a Saudi national was also executed in a separate case, raising to 61 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year, according to an AFP tally. Mohammed

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VIDEO: State Orders Man To Pay $30k In Child Support Or Face Jail, Despite Proof He Is Not Father

The State of Michigan is ordering that Detroit man Carnell Alexander pay approximately $30,000 in back child support or go to jail, despite the fact that a DNA test proved that he is not the father of the child in question.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

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Greenwald: Harper Government Exploiting Recent Attacks To Expand Powers

Prime Minister, says journalist, is exploiting recent violence in Canada to ‘further dismantle civil liberties and core principles of western justice’.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Glen Greenwald

The Canadian government is exploiting last week’s attacks against soldiers in the country to push sweeping national security bills into law and give the state ever-more invasive surveillance powers, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald said in Ottawa over the weekend. Terrorism is "the most inflammatory, but also the most meaningless word in

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VIDEO: Hungarians Take To Throwing Computers At Government Buildings To Protest Internet Tax

Don’t mess with net neutrality.

Timothy McGrath
By Timothy McGrath
Hungary Internet Tax

When the people in power try to make the internet more expensive and less free, one way for the public to respond is by gathering up all the obsolete computing equipment that's lying around and start hurling it at government buildings. That's exactly what the people of Budapest did yesterday. The world is struggling to figure out to future of

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