Wednesday, February 18, 2009

N.Y. Post Cartoon: Racially Offensive? Update -- Paper Says No Way. So the New York Post has responded to a furor surrounding its publication of a cartoon which some people believe compares Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. (See our earlier post) The Associated Press reports: The New York Post is standing... [The World Newser] 12:59:59 PM    comment []

J. Edgar Hoover used Omaha World-Herald as 'Whiteys newspaper' in FBI bogus letter against Ed Poindexter. [FBI Operation COINTELPRO targeted 'Omaha Two' Black Panthers with series of dirty tricks leading to conviction for murder using withheld evidence [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] 12:35:34 PM    comment []

How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis. How the banking industry is undermining efforts to keep people in their houses.     The bad mortgages that got the current financial crisis started have produced a terrifying wave of home foreclosures. Unless the foreclosure surge eases, even the most extravagant federal stimulus spending won't spur an economic recovery. read more [Truthout - All Articles] 9:16:16 AM    comment []

Judge Upholds Charges Against Blackwater Guards.     A federal judge today refused to toss out charges against five U.S. security contractors accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad square in 2007.     The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina came in an early legal challenge brought by defense attorneys representing the guards, who worked at the time for Blackwater Worldwide. The guards' attorneys had argued the government didn't have jurisdiction to bring the charges. read more [Truthout - All Articles] 9:15:05 AM    comment []

Obama O.K.s 17,000 More Afghanistan Troops.     Washington - President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning.     "This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires," Obama said in a statement. read more [Truthout - All Articles] 9:14:22 AM    comment []

Obama's Justice: Reconciliation, Not Retribution. President Barack Obama. (Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP) read more [Truthout - All Articles] 9:13:47 AM    comment []

Americaâo[dot accent]s Confused Cause In Central Asia. Exactly what do we think we are doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Are we there to liberalize their forms of religious observance, or conduct a war over theology, or establish permanent NATO bases there or are we searching for Osama bin Laden? It seems that we are doing all of these things at the same time. But why? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries February 18, 2009 Good Money After Bad February 17, 2009 Coping With Corporate Media February 17, 2009 Obama Throws 17,000 Troops at Afghanistan Mess February 17, 2009 Burris Did More for Blagojevich Than He Let On February 17, 2009 Avoiding Another Cold War [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] 9:12:30 AM    comment []

Cartoon Controversy: Is this 'Racially Offensive'?. ABC News' Kristi Berner reports: There's a political cartoon in today's New York Post that some social activists are questioning this morning. (Click here to check it out). The Sean Delonas drawing morphs together two stories in the news this... [The World Newser] 9:11:20 AM    comment []

Bristol Palin: Abstinence-Only Plan Doesn’t Work. Last fall, Bristol Palin became a controversial figure in her mother Sarah Palin’s vice presidential bid when it was revealed, not long after the elder Palin took to the campaign trail, that the teenaged Bristol was pregnant by her high school boyfriend. Now Bristol has re-emerged to make a few comments that run against her mom’s approach to teen sex ed. CNN: Her parents insisted that she and her boyfriend hash out a “game plan” immediately. And now her parents and relatives are all pitching in to help take care of the child, particularly when Bristol is at school during the day. [Fox News’ Greta] Van Susteren was delicate with the teenager but pointedly asked if “contraception is an issue here.” “Is that something that you were just lazy about or not interested, or do you have philosophical or religious opposition to it,” Van Susteren asked. Bristol quickly answered that she didn’t want to get into specifics. The best option is abstinence, the teen said, but added that she didn’t think that was “realistic.” While her mother was running for vice president, the teenager said her treatment in the media was “evil.” She said she read some of the tabloids that wrote about her. People didn’t understand, she said, and some media reports perpetuated falsehoods about her experience. “They thought that, like, my mom was going to make me have the baby, and it was my choice to have the baby,” she said. “And it’s just—that kind of stuff just bothered me.” Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries February 17, 2009 Burris Did More for Blagojevich Than He Let On February 16, 2009 California Plans to Fire 20,000 Workers January 31, 2009 Republican Governors Press for Passage of Stimulus Package January 29, 2009 Bye Bye, Blagojevich January 29, 2009 Blagojevich Pleads His Case [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] 9:09:08 AM    comment []

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