- Is War in Southern Sudan Inevitable? | The Root
- Both sides have agreed to demilitarize the region, but satellite imagery shows heavily armed government forces, backed by tanks, massing along the still-undefined border between Sudan and Southern Sudan. …
Five months before Sudan declared its independence from the United Kingdom and Egypt on Jan. 1, 1956, civil war began when members of the Sudan Defense Force Equatorial Corps mutinied…
…there are limits on what outside intervention can accomplish. The antagonists, both North and South, have a long track record of reconciliation and betrayals.
- Why You Should Care About the New Orleans Police Trial
- Three officers who were involved in the shooting and two officers who aided in the [coverup] conspiracy have pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against their fellow officers. …
The shootings on Danziger Bridge are the most notorious of at least nine separate incidents — most of which occurred in the days just after Katrina — that are being examined by federal agents. …
In a…report released this March, the U.S. Justice Department declared that the NOPD has deep structural problems… “use of excessive force
- With Second Filibernie, Sen. Sanders Sets Up the Left Pole in the Deficit Debate | FDL News Desk
- Sen. Bernie Sanders is about a half-hour into another “filibernie” stemwinder on the floor of the Senate today
- VIDEO: Athens protest turns to violence
- Violence has erupted in Athens’ Syntagma Square during a protest against austerity measures.
- Cameroon bans night-time travel | BBC
- Cameroon bans all night-time public transport on roads to curb accidents caused by heavy drinking, the transport ministry says.
- VIDEO: Wildfire reaches nuclear weapons lab | BBC
- Thousands of residents have fled their homes in New Mexico, after wildfires raged near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Kagan Claims ‘Chutzpah’ in Latest Dissent
- Justice Elena Kagan flexed her writing muscle in her dissent on Monday to a Supreme Court ruling striking down Arizona’s campaign finance law.
The law overturned by the majority gave publicly financed candidates more public dollars when their privately funded opponents spent more. …
- Michele Bachmann Lies About Profiting From Govt Subsidized Dairy Farm
- Michele Bachmann actually told two lies to Chris Wallace. She claimed that the farm belonged to her father in law, but what she didn’t say is that she was and still is a partner in the farm. Bachmann also stated that she or husband never made a penny from the family dairy farm, but her financial disclosure forms report that from 2006-2009 she made $32,503-$105,000 in profit off of the farm.
Bachmann has to somehow explain how she can be against government spending, while using her power as member of Congress to get $260,000 in federal dairy and corn subsidies for her family farm. Apparently assistance and government subsidies are okay for Bachmann to get, but not those Americans who are elderly, poor, disabled, or unemployed.
- Google gives user data to government in most cases – MarketWatch
- Google Inc. disclosed on Monday that it complied with 94% of government requests for data about users of its services in the U.S. in the second half of last year, shedding some light on the Internet search firm’s behind-the-scenes interaction with law enforcement.
- Liberia Tackles Sexual Violence Head On | womensenews.org
- President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president, has been proactive about fighting sexual and gender-based violence. The Liberian government and the United Nations jointly committed to reducing gender-based violence by 30 percent by the end of 2011.
The Ministry of Gender and Development also has a special unit dedicated to tackling sexual and gender-based violence, the Gender-Based Violence Task Force, which aims to coordinate violence prevention and response.
- The Forgotten Churchill » The American Scholar
- The first welfare state on earth was created against socialist opposition.
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