Ariz. sheriff faces crossroads in civil rights case By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press

Ariz. sheriff faces crossroads in civil rights caseBy Jacques Billeaud, Associated PressPHOENIX – America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff is fast approaching a crossroads where he must decide either to settle claims that his officers racially profiled Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols — and overhaul his practices — or take his chances at trial.By Charlie Leight, GannettSheriff Joe Arpaio...

Earth Hour 2012 Official Video

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The Archaeology News Network: Neolithic monolith is 'astronomically aligned'

The Archaeology News Network: Neolithic monolith is 'astronomically aligned': Gardom's Edge monument, view to east [Credit: D Brown/Nottingham Trent University]Dr Daniel Brown presented the findings on the 27th of March at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester.  'via Blog th...

250-year-old mosque bulldozed

For at least two-and-a-half centuries, Masjid Sehr, an architectural gem of masterful woodwork and stone-cutting [Credit: Express Tribune]The cause was not sectarian hatred, natural disaster or accidental fire. Rather, there were simply too many people in the village who wanted to pray. The beautiful old mosque could not hold them all.  In our functional times, the village elders came together...

The Age of Obama: What Went Wrong (and How to Fix It)

The Age of Obama: What Went Wrong (and How to Fix It): 'via Blog th...

Cesar Chavez: A True American Hero

Cesar Chavez. (Photo: Wikimedia)I hope we can all pause and reflect on the extraordinary life of a true American hero today (March 31). It's Cesar Chavez Day, proclaimed by President Obama and observed throughout the country on the 85th birth date of the late founder of the United Farm Workers union. It's an official state holiday in California, Texas and Colorado.READ M...

Obama [lesser evilism] Apologetics by ANDREW LEVINE

In ancient Greece, an “apology” was a formal speech presented by a defendant in a legal proceeding; thus Plato recounted Socrates’ defense against charges of impiety and corrupting the youth in a dialogue called “The Apology.”  Early Christian writers used the term to refer to formal justifications of theological positions.  They produced “apologia” directed, in the first instance, to pagans,...

Five Challengers of the Neoliberal Jackboot

The governments of the five large countries of the Global South, the BRICS states, met in New Delhi this week for their fourth summit. These five countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are home to forty per cent of the world’s peoples, and their share of the world’s Gross Domestic Product is now just over twenty-five per cent.Most of what was said at the summit, and in its Delhi Declaration, was hot air, as one has come to expect...

Why Sgt. Bales Should be Sent Back to Afghanistan for Trial » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Why Sgt. Bales Should be Sent Back to Afghanistan for Trial » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: 'via Blog th...

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Senators Who Voted To Protect Oil Tax Breaks Received $23,582,500 From Big Oil

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Senators Who Voted To Protect Oil Tax Breaks Received $23,582,500 From Big Oil: 'via Blog th...

Tibetan refugees fear India's crackdown on activism

Tibetan activists unfurl a banner reading 'Hu Jintao failed leader free Tibet now' from a foot over bridge during a protest at a road leading to the Taj Hotel - the venue for the fourth BRICS Summit attended by leaders of member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - in New Delhi on March 29, 2012. The lead-up to the summit gathering at a luxury hotel in the centre of the Indian capital...

Kremlin Secret Files: Magic pills for Soviet leaders

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Could the Koch brothers' fortune put the radical right into the White House?

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Neoliberal Egypt: The hijacked revolution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Neoliberal Egypt: The hijacked revolution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English: 'via Blog th...

War porn: The new safe sex

(This is the much-abridged version of a conference at the XII Seminar of Political Solidarity at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, March 27, 2012.) The early 21st century is addicted to war porn, a prime spectator sport consumed by global couch and digital potatoes. War porn took the limelight on the evening of September 11, 2001, when the George W Bush administration launched the "war on terror" - which was interpreted by many of its practitioners...

Predators, reapers, ravens - and revolution

Brian Glyn Williams With very little discussion, the United States and as many as 50 other nations have inaugurated what amounts to a "drone revolution" that will profoundly change our very understanding of the security environment. There can be no doubt that unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, represent the future of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency in remote and insecure lands...

British Political Rebel [George Galloway] Makes Triumphant Return

DavidMartynHunt (CC-BY)“Gorgeous” George Galloway.George Galloway, the British politician remanded to all but oblivion after being expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 and losing office in 2010, made an unexpected comeback Friday when he upset Britain’s major political party candidates to win a parliamentary by-election.Victory by a large margin indicates public support for Galloway is strong....

Israel's Secret Staging Ground U.S. officials believe that the Israelis have gained access to airbases in Azerbaijan. Does this bring them one step closer to a war with Iran?

In 2009, the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Donald Lu, sent a cable to the State Department's headquarters in Foggy Bottom titled "Azerbaijan's discreet symbiosis with Israel." The memo, later released by WikiLeaks, quotes Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as describing his country's relationship with the Jewish state as an iceberg: "nine-tenths of it is below the...

Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion

A settler plants a flag in the ground at a new outpost north of the West Bank settlement of Itamar in 2011.For years Israel’s Civil Administration has been covertly locating and mapping available land in the West Bank and naming the parcels after existing Jewish settlements, presumably with an eye toward expanding these communities.The Civil Administration, part of the Defense Ministry, released its...

Birth of a Great Observatory

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Computing Intifada: When Will Palestinians Revolt?

By Ramzy BaroudWhen will the Palestinians revolt?The answer, according to an Israeli official: not this year (as quoted by Agency France Press).An internal Israeli Foreign Ministry report last month also concluded that a third Palestinian intifada or uprising was ‘unlikely’ this year. According to the unnamed official, “This report, which is more than 100 pages long, judges that an explosion of generalized violence in the form of a third intifada...

Buena Vista Social Club - Candela

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Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan

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The Life and Death of Che Guevara Tribute - Motorcycle Diaries

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Che Guevara's Last Moments and Death

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Buenavista Social Club - Hasta Siempre

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Pakistan, S Korea agree to expand bilateral relations

SEOUL: Pakistan and South Korea on Wednesday agreed to further expand their bilateral relations and enhanced cooperation in different fields.The agreement was reached during a meeting of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his South Korean counterpart Kim Hwang-Sik. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar also attended the meeting. Both the prime ministers discussed various options to further enhance their bilateral relations in the fields of infrastructure,...

Paul Hardcastle Northern Lights

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Paul Hardcastle - King Tut

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Paul Hardcastle - Peace On Earth

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Paul Hardcastle - Destination Atlantis

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Paul Hardcastle Walkin To Freedom

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Discovery of foot fossil confirms 2 human ancestor species co-existed 3.4 million years ago | e! Science News

Discovery of foot fossil confirms 2 human ancestor species co-existed 3.4 million years ago | e! Science News: 'via Blog th...

Nalanda style Buddha statues unearthed in Midnapore

Statues of Buddha at the site at Moghalmari in West Midnapore [Credit: Samir Mondal]The statues were discovered yesterday at Dantan’s Moghalmari village, 180km from Calcutta and near the Odisha border, by a team of Calcutta University archaeologists.“It appears to us that this was an institution on the lines of Nalanda. Some of the decorations found are similar to those in Nalanda,” said Asok Datta,...

Six Old Kingdom tombs to be opened at Giza Plateau

Tomb of Nefer [Credit: Ahram Online]Although these tombs may be sparse in decoration, they are rich in architectural features. Discovered early in the last century, the tombs have impressive facades, more like temples, and large chambers with rock-hewn pillars.The first one belongs to Princess Mersankh, the granddaughter of King Khufu. This tomb was originally built for her mother, Queen Hetepheres...

Kagermann - The Legend!

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Read the FBI Memo: Agents Can 'Suspend the Law' | Danger Room | Wired.com

Read the FBI Memo: Agents Can 'Suspend the Law' | Danger Room | Wired.com: 'via Blog th...

Mosaic Alert: Israeli Website Recruits Retired Soldiers to Evict Palesti...

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US Immigration Agents Are Loading Up On As Many As 450 Million New Rounds Of Ammo

US Immigration Agents Are Loading Up On As Many As 450 Million New Rounds Of Ammo: Enough to shoot every single American 1.4 times.Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/defense#ixzz1qRmZFqNW 'via Blog th...

New College Major In 'Drone Studies' Has Graduates Pulling In Up To $200K A Year

New College Major In 'Drone Studies' Has Graduates Pulling In Up To $200K A Year: 'via Blog th...

Wait, Did CNN Just Lose HALF Of Its Viewers?

Wait, Did CNN Just Lose HALF Of Its Viewers?: ....................Perhaps, if I may be so bold, this is what happens to you when you continue to report stories that no longer resemble -- even remotely -- what your own viewers see outside their windows and apartments.CNN has barely covered the rapidly growing Occupy and Tea Party protests around the country, and as the clip from Current TV's Cenk Uygur...

Reports indicate Toulouse gunman was French intelligence asset ?

Reports indicate Toulouse gunman was French intelligence asset: 'via Blog th...

US gears up for land operation in Persian Gulf? — RT

US gears up for land operation in Persian Gulf? — RT: A helicopter flies near US ship Iwo Jima (AFP Photo / Johan Ordones)'via Blog th...

Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

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Leonard Cohen - Everybody knows (live in London, 2008)

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Why vegetarians eat what they eat. Or, why they do not eat this.

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American Weed - Baking Brownies

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The Oil Drum | Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century

The Oil Drum | Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century: 'via Blog th...

Cambodia: Learning Lessons From the Khmer Rouge By Irwin Loy

PHNOM PENH, Mar 28, 2012 (IPS) - For four years, Wan Preung toiled in the fields under the Khmer Rouge, unable to speak his mind. But after the regime fell in 1979, there was still one sensitive subject the teacher could seldom broach with his students: the Khmer Rouge."It was difficult to teach the students about the Khmer Rouge, because we didn’t know this story clearly," Preung says. "We didn’t...

Jakarta's rowdy fuel price protests

Indonesian protests against a 30 percent raise in the government-controlled fuel price have, again, turned unruly.This backlash to the jump in gas prices -- triggered by global petroleum costs -- is powerful. According to the Jakarta Globe, the police estimate roughly 88,200 protesters across the sprawling island nation of 240 million people.But it seems the rallies -- organized by students,...

BRICS summit to explore creation of bank

The five-member BRICS countries account for roughly 18 per cent of the world's GDP [AFP]The proposal of a development bank is high on the agenda at the summit of the five BRICS bloc nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - starting on Thursday in New Delhi.The proposal for a "South-South" development bank in the mould of the World Bank is one of the main points to be discussed by...

Israel: A 'democratic' violator of rights?

As Israel severs ties with UN human rights bodies, we ask if it can lay claim to being the only democracy in the region....