Huffington Post
Phyllis Bennis – Institute of Policy Studies
This set of documents is unquestionably the most important history so far of key parts of the US war in Afghanistan. These are reports of troops and commanders in the field to other military officials — this is where they tell the truth, to themselves. It is significant that the Obama administration has not tried to claim the reports are not accurate. What they are trying to do is to have it both ways: claiming that disclosure of the reports somehow endangers US troops, but at the same time disparaging the documents as showing nothing we didn’t already know. Continue reading
Daily Archives: August 4, 2010
Speak up for our women religious
An NCR Editorial
Members of the LCWR march through Woldenberg Riverside Park in New Orleans for a prayer service to preserve the wetlands, part of the LCWR’s gathering last year. (CNS/Frank J Methe) Continue reading
Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System
Common Dreams
by Bill Quigley
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. Continue reading
Climate change ‘will increase Mexico-US migration’
BBC
The study says climate change may drive up to 6.7m Mexicans across the border into the US by 2080
A warming climate could see millions of adult Mexicans migrate to the US as rising temperatures cause a drop in crop yields, according to a study by researchers at Princeton University. Continue reading
FACTS & FIGURES: Kenya Referendum 2010
Follow the Election Results
KENYA REFERENDUM 2010
• There are 27,689 polling stations.
• Voting will start August 4, 2010, from 6am and end at 5pm.
• All voting and counting is done manually; a new electronic tallying system will be tested.
• More than 27,000 GPRS-enabled mobile phones will be used to send results from polling stations to the constituency tallying centres. Continue reading
Jubilee Campaign urges: ‘end Britain’s dodgy deals’
Independent Catholic News
The Export Credits Guarantee Department is a little-known part of the UK Government that uses public money to back exports to the developing world. The faith-based Jubilee Campaign has dubbed it ‘the Department for Dodgy Deals’, because all too often, it underwrites deals like arms sales, coal power plants and oil pipelines. Continue reading
