Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Golden Gate Park station. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Investigators in the early '7...

After the Senate's 24 hour debate on voter suppression legislation, its important to put a face on the people this unnecessary legislation will affect. The Fort Worth Star Telegram talked with Bessie Jenkins Foster, a 98-year-old African-American woman, who is recovering from gallbladder surgery and...

By Greg Perkins from NoodleFood,cross-posted by MetaBlog How do you quickly explain -- or at least motivate further exploration of -- subtle ideas that would challenge "what everybody knows"? It's just hard, a skill to be practiced, which is why I eagerly listened to the (quite excellent) debate bet...

Noteworthy Net-Worthies: Best description of the Troubled Assets Relief Program yet — “an unaccountable secretive national hedge fund which buys lousy assets at inflated prices from banks mismanaged for personal profit by multi-millionaires, and makes non-consensual capital calls on unin...

Several items for your consideration tonight: State AGs, aided by the Obama Justice Department, are about to rain down a storm of payback upon the mortgage banking and financial services industries, including a major staffing increase for a reinvigorated SEC. A little trust busting would be in order...

German prosecutors said yesterday they intend to take action against an 88-year-old US resident for suspected involvement in the mass murder of 29,000 Jews, setting the stage for what could be the last major Nazi war crimes trial - in Adolf Hitler's former stronghold. The trial in Munich of John Dem...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

There's a new White House Council on Women & Girls as of today. To be run by Obama's Svengali, Valerie Jarrett, lately of Chicago and Mayor Daley's office. We need a Council on women because women make up more than 50% of our college students, are taking over certain professions (such as medicin...

Via the the always great Bishop Thomas Olmsted. Our president's rationale is that science should trump ideology. In other words, that ideology should not have the upper hand in making decisions about who pays for research; science should. We Americans, he says, should trust scientists more than we t...