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FBI Crackdown on Anti-War Groups Targets Chicano, Brown Beret Activist Carlos...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
16 May 2012 at 8:48am
Supporters of a longtime California activist, Carlos Montes, rallied outside a courthouse in Los Angeles Tuesday calling on authorities to drop his prosecution. Montes faces four charges including one for firearms possession that dates back to the 1960s. A longtime leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights, and antiwar movements, Montes' arrest in a May 2011 raid followed similar FBI raids on activists in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois targeting fellow members of a political group called the Anti-War Committee. "They are attacking me for my activism against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also because of my solidarity work with oppressed people throughout the world -- whether they be in Palestine, Colombia or Mexico," says Montes, who plans to march against NATO this weekend in Chicago. Montes helped organize the Brown Berets and took part in the famous 1968 walkout by high school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]
"What Have We Been Doing?": Decorated Veteran Aaron Hughes to Return War Meda...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
16 May 2012 at 8:37am
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will join thousands of protesters this Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago. We speak to Iraq Veterans Against the War's Aaron Hughes, who's among a number of Afghanistan and Iraq war vets planning to return their medals of honor to visiting NATO generals. "[Veterans] have to live with the failed policy of the global war on terror on a daily basis," Hughes says. "What have we been doing in this decade-long war? There is a real moral disconnect between that the idea that our military can build a democracy and the idea that our military is trained and designed to control, dominate and kill people... Occupations do not build democracies. Occupations do not extend individuals? freedoms. The movements of the Arab Spring, that was building democracy. The movements of Gandhi, of civil rights in this country, people?s movements, that?s what extends democracy." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]
As NATO Meets in Chicago, Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn Condemn "Militarized ...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
16 May 2012 at 8:12am
Legendary Chicago activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talk about this week's protests in Chicago, where NATO will hold its largest summit to date. Thousands of protesters from a diverse coalition of organizations including unions, antiwar groups, immigrant rights organizations and Occupy are expected to march in the streets. Chicago is preparing a massive security operation, with the Department of Homeland Security declaring the summit a "National Special Security Event." Civil liberties advocates have warned it could provide the first public test of a new law that expands the ability of the Secret Service to suppress protests in or around certain restricted zones. "We think that NATO should be meeting in an underground bunker or on a remote island," Dorhn says. "[Chicago] is being treated as really a practice military zone ... [while] we don't have money here for community mental health clinics, we don't have money for public libraries or for schools, we don't have money for public transportation... We want peace and not permanent wars abroad and military war games and [the] national security state at home." [includes rush transcript]
Headlines for May 16, 2012
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
16 May 2012 at 8:00am
DOJ Probes JPMorgan Chase for $2 Billion Loss, Boehner Revives Debt Limit Threat, DEA Accused of Role in Killing of 4 Civilians in Honduras, Syrian Troops Kill 21 Civilians; Rebels Get Weapons Boost, Israeli Troops Wound Palestinian "Nakba" Protesters, France Inaugurates Hollande as New President, Greece to Hold New Elections After Unity Talks Fail, Charges Unveiled in Rebekah Brooks Phone-Hacking Case, Virginia House Denies Judgeship to Openly Gay Prosecutor, Investigation: Texas Executed Innocent Man in 1989, Medical Report Claims Zimmerman Had Injuries After Martin Killing, Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes Dies at 83
"Magic Soap" Maker David Bronner on Labeling Genetically Modified Food, Fair ...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
15 May 2012 at 8:48am
Critics of genetically modified foods have won a victory in California by securing enough signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot that could force food manufacturers to label food products containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Numerous items are already sold in grocery stores containing genetically modified corn and soy, but companies do not currently have to inform consumers. We speak to David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, about GMOs, fair trade, the U.S. war on hemp, and the company's support of Palestinian olive oil producers. [includes rush transcript]
As Obama OKs Weapons to Bahrain, Neurosurgeon Tortured by Regime Faces Trial ...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
15 May 2012 at 8:33am
Human rights organizations are criticizing the Obama administration's decision to resume military sales to Bahrain despite the ruling monarchy?s ongoing repression of pro-democracy protests. The State Department has said it will allow a multi-million-dollar weapons shipment to the Bahraini government, citing "national security interests." The announcement came just days after the Bahraini government vowed "tougher action" in its crackdown on protesters. We're joined by Dr. Nabeel Hameed, who is one of Bahrain's only neurosurgeons and among dozens of Bahraini physicians and nurses who have been arrested and tried for treating anti-government protesters. After a three-month prison stint that he says included abuse and torture, Dr. Hameed is expected to be tried by a Bahraini court soon after he returns home. "There is this silence, this deafening silence, from the world governments [about Bahrain]," he says. "There is a situation which is really getting worse and worse. And if you don't really stop it here, it may get really, really bad in the future. ... You don't have to wait until the violence propagates out of control." [includes rush transcript]
Ex-Financial Regulator William Black: Austerity is Sinking Economies from Eur...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
15 May 2012 at 8:29am
White-collar criminologist and former senior financial regulator William Black addresses the grassroots reaction to austerity measures in Europe -- from the "Indignados" movement in Spain to the anti-bailout elections in France and Greece -- as well as in the United States, where the Occupy movement is re-emerging as the presidential campaign gets into full gear. "Finance is supposed to simply be a middleman to help the real economy," Black says. "It in fact now completely dominates and is a parasite on the real economy. German austerity has pushed the entire eurozone into recession and the periphery into Great Depression-level unemployment. And the same arguments are being made in the United States and are used as a pretext to try to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It is economically illiterate, but politically attractive." [includes rush transcript]
Crony Capitalism: After Lobbying Against New Financial Regulations, JPMorgan ...
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
15 May 2012 at 8:12am
JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank, is under fire after losing at least $2 billion in derivatives trading it was warned carried high risk. The loss has renewed calls for tougher regulation of Wall Street, with critics saying JPMorgan could have avoided it under regulations the bank opposed. We're joined by former financial regulator, white-collar criminologist, and University of Missouri-Kansas City Professor William Black, author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One." Black says JPMorgan's latest woes stem from the flaws endemic to "too big too fail." "Allowing [banks] to be this big, even conservative economists call this crony capitalism," Black says. "The only way this can work is to shrink the systemically dangerous institutions -- this is the 20 largest banks in the United States -- down to the point that they no longer pose a systemic risk, they are no longer too big to fail, and therefore, they will no longer have this implicit federal subsidy that completely distorts competition [and] ... destroys democracy, because these giant institutions have so much political power." [includes rush transcript]

NYT > Politics

Republicans Pledge New Standoff on Debt Limit
by By JONATHAN WEISMAN
16 May 2012 at 3:45am
Speaker John A. Boehner set the stage for a bruising election-year showdown on fiscal policy while Mitt Romney hit President Obama hard on his fiscal stewardship in a speech in Des Moines.


Iowa, Again, Serves as Proving Ground for Romney
by By MICHAEL BARBARO and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
16 May 2012 at 1:55am
Iowa is an important laboratory for Mitt Romney?s broad effort to lay the blame for the nation?s ongoing economic distress at President Obama?s feet.


The Caucus: Nebraska State Senator Deb Fischer Wins G.O.P. Nomination
by By JONATHAN WEISMAN
15 May 2012 at 11:53pm
Deb Fischer scrambled the calculations of both parties as she won the nomination to run for the Senate seat being vacated next year by Ben Nelson, a moderate Democrat.


FiveThirtyEight: A 30,000-Foot View on the Presidential Race
by By NATE SILVER
15 May 2012 at 2:17pm
Nothing fundamental has changed in the race in the past month or two, although there are a couple of factors that may be working in Mitt Romney's favor at the margin.


George W. Bush Briefly Visits Washington
by By PETER BAKER
16 May 2012 at 1:40am
After keeping a low profile since leaving office, former President George W. Bush is starting to speak out again on issues he hopes will define his legacy.


Senate Approves Extension of Export-Import Bank
by By JONATHAN WEISMAN
16 May 2012 at 8:15am
Conservative opposition failed to attract much support as the measure passed 78 to 20.


Edwards Defense Presents Witnesses Aimed at Discrediting His Accuser
by By KIM SEVERSON
16 May 2012 at 9:28am
A defense witness testified Tuesday that the aide who helped John Edwards hide an affair and the child it produced spent more of the cover-up money on his own family than on Mr. Edwards?s mistress.


Gay Prosecutor Is Denied Virginia Judgeship
by By SABRINA TAVERNISE
16 May 2012 at 8:37am
Republicans in the House of Delegates rejected the nomination of Tracy Thorne-Begland, saying his activism on behalf of gay rights meant he would impose an activist agenda as a judge.

NYT > Opinion

Op-Ed Contributor: Nuns on the Frontier
by By ANNE M. BUTLER
15 May 2012 at 11:21pm
The tension between nuns and the Catholic Church?s male hierarchy has roots in the 19th century.


Op-Ed Columnist: Dancing With Derivatives
by By MAUREEN DOWD
15 May 2012 at 11:21pm
Othello learned that reputation is all. Now, after a $2 billion trading blunder, Jamie Dimon is learning that.


Op-Ed Columnist: Come the Revolution
by By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
15 May 2012 at 11:21pm
Through ventures like Coursera, world-class learning is coming at bargain-basement prices.


Campaign Stops: The Third Party Fantasy
by By ROSS DOUTHAT
15 May 2012 at 11:33pm
Efforts to create a sensible centrist alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties are weak because they misunderstand where true political insurgency comes from.


Opinionator: Less Meat, Less Global Warming
by By MARK BITTMAN
15 May 2012 at 9:51pm
We can slow global warming by eating fewer animal products.


Editorial: Mr. Boehner and the Debt
16 May 2012 at 8:23am
Speaker John Boehner pushed the country to the brink of default last year and now wants to do it all over again.


Room for Debate: How Should Obama Appeal to the Disenchanted?
15 May 2012 at 11:47pm
What can the president do to energize those groups who have supported him but are less enthusiastic, as well as those who were always skeptical of him?


Op-Ed Contributor: When Competitive Bidding Hurts Patients
by By DENNIS ROSEN
16 May 2012 at 2:30am
If competitive bidding is predicated on supplying equipment at the lowest possible price, something has to give, and that something is patient care.

NYT > U.S.

Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter
by By LOUIS UCHITELLE
19 Sep 2008 at 8:43am
Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.


For Rivals, Finance Crisis Is Posing on-the-Fly Tests
by By JACKIE CALMES and JEFF ZELENY
19 Sep 2008 at 7:44am
The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.


Drug Label, Maimed Patient and Test for Court
by By ADAM LIPTAK
19 Sep 2008 at 8:39am
At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right to sue when the products that hurt them had met federal standards.


After Impasse, New California Budget Agreement
by By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
19 Sep 2008 at 4:20am
California legislative leaders and the governor have come to an agreement on the state budget, which is now roughly three months late.


California Bans Texting by Operators of Trains
by By JESSE McKINLEY and MATTHEW L. WALD
19 Sep 2008 at 3:01am
After investigators said an engineer in last week?s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.


Political Memo: Given G.O.P. Predicament, Rangel Opts to Ride Out the Storm
by By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
19 Sep 2008 at 4:09am
Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.


Panel Proposes Broad Changes in Federal Financial Aid for College
by By TAMAR LEWIN
19 Sep 2008 at 3:09am
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.


Chicago Unveils Multifaceted Plan to Curb Emissions of Heat-Trapping Gases
by By DIRK JOHNSON
19 Sep 2008 at 3:18am
The blueprint would change the city?s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.

NYT > World

As Trained Afghans Turn Enemy, a U.S.-Led Imperative Is in Peril
by By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
16 May 2012 at 10:07am
This year, 22 American-led coalition service members have been killed by men in Afghan uniform, which the military calls ?green on blue? attacks.
Greece Teeters Ahead of New Vote
by By LIZ ALDERMAN and RACHEL DONADIO
16 May 2012 at 10:40am
Amid warnings of the possibility of bank runs, state television said June 17 would be the date for a new round of elections.
Ratko Mladic Faces War Crimes Charges
by By MARLISE SIMONS and ALAN COWELL
16 May 2012 at 9:28am
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial at The Hague on Wednesday for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1990s.
Riot Police Break Up Antigovernment Encampment in Moscow
by By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
16 May 2012 at 10:37am
The crackdown on protesters on Wednesday was the latest volley between the Russian authorities and opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mexicans Unflinching in Face of Drug War?s Carnage
by By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and DAMIEN CAVE
16 May 2012 at 8:25am
Many Mexicans are increasingly disturbed by their disaffection as drug violence has taken a turn for the worse.
Cartwright, Retired General, Backs Large U.S. Nuclear Reduction
by By THOM SHANKER
16 May 2012 at 10:40am
Gen. James E. Cartwright, a former commander of the United States? nuclear forces, is adding his voice to those who are calling for a drastic reduction in nuclear warheads.
Rebekah Brooks Charged With Perversion of Justice Over Hacking
by By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL
16 May 2012 at 10:21am
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch?s newspaper outpost in Britain, and five others were charge with conspiring to pervert the course of justice in the case.
François Hollande Meets Angela Merkel After Delay
by By NICHOLAS KULISH and STEVEN ERLANGER
16 May 2012 at 6:30am
Hours after being inaugurated, President François Hollande of France arrived in Germany for a much-anticipated meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

NYT > Business Day

A Russian Facebook Bet Pays Off Big
by By ANDREW E. KRAMER
16 May 2012 at 9:45am
Alisher B. Usmanov?s investments in the social media giant could be worth at least $6 billion when the company goes public.


DealBook: Facebook Increases Number of Shares for I.P.O.
by By BEN PROTESS
16 May 2012 at 10:02am
Facebook will offer 96 million more shares, or 25 percent more than it was planning to offer previously in response to high demand.


G.M. to Quit Facebook Ad Campaign Worth $10 Million a Year
by By TANZINA VEGA
16 May 2012 at 9:53am
The loss of $10 million in ad dollars does not represent a financial disaster for Facebook, but it is a public relations headache so close to the company?s initial stock offering this week.


Wall Street Edges Ahead
by By REUTERS
16 May 2012 at 10:10am
Remarks from European officials about wanting to keep Greece in the euro zone helped calm markets, analysts said.


Rebound in Housing Starts
by By REUTERS
16 May 2012 at 10:06am
Housing starts in the United States in April increased 2.6 percent, while industrial production shot up 1.1 percent, the government said.


DealBook: As One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought Them
by By AZAM AHMED
16 May 2012 at 8:29am
A mutual fund in a different part of the bank owns about $380 million worth of insurance identical to the kind the "London whale" sold.


States Diverting Mortgage Settlement Money to Other Uses
by By SHAILA DEWAN
16 May 2012 at 10:30am
Some states are diverting their share of $2.5 billion they were awarded in a mortgage settlement, money intended to help homeowners and mitigate the effects of foreclosures.


Shift by U.S. Muddles Solar Imports Case
by By KEITH BRADSHER
16 May 2012 at 9:13am
A decision in an anti-dumping case is expected Thursday and will focus on whether China's solar panel companies have been building market share by selling their products below cost.

TheStar.com - Opinions

More queries about Guergis
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16 Apr 2010 at 12:01am

A week ago today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fired Helena Guergis, his minister responsible for the status of women, banished her from the Conservative caucus, and called in the Mounties to investigate her?all as a result of ?serious allegations.?

Bruce Davis is a busy man. He is chair of the Toronto Public School Board, the biggest in the province. He is running for reelection as a trustee. He operates a bed & breakfast 270 kilometers away in Gananoque. And as of this week, he is manager of George Smitherman?s front-running campaign for the Toronto mayoralty.

Did Canadian troops use Afghanistan?s notorious security services as ?subcontractors for abuse and torture?? That?s what the Commons committee on Afghanistan heard this week from Ahmadshah Malgarai, an Afghan-Canadian who worked as an interpreter in Kandahar.

The federal Conservatives came to office four years ago promising a more accountable and open government than was delivered by the previous Liberal administration. They have failed abysmally on both counts.

Tale of improper financing, influence peddling and judicial meddling in Quebec cries out for a full public inquiry.

South Africa's Pelindaba nuclear reactor holds enough highly enriched uranium for a dozen atomic bombs and it is tightly guarded. But in 2007 gunmen staged a brazen midnight attack on it.

Once considered political quicksand ? too dangerous for even a single step into it ? the idea of tolling existing roadways is developing considerable traction. Two high-profile mayors, Toronto's David Miller and Mississauga's Hazel McCallion, have both recently said road tolls will have to be discussed as a means of paying for essential transit expansion. And tolls have emerged as an early issue in Toronto's mayoral election.

Once upon a time, a cross-Canada tour by a Quebec separatist could be counted on to attract frisky crowds and snarky media coverage. But 20 years after the death of the Meech Lake accord, it's harder to get a rise out of the ROC (as the Rest of Canada is called).

TheStar.com - News Top Stories

Woman dies after long ORNGE ambulance delay, family says
by Tanya Talaga and Richard Brennan
15 May 2012 at 11:22pm

It took more than six hours for ORNGE to figure out if land or air ambulance would pick up a critically ill Barry?s Bay woman and transport her to an Ottawa hospital, her family says.

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