Monday, May 18, 2009

05-18-09
  • Prison-Industrial Complex - A Part of the American Dream:
    • Montana town requests that U.S. government send 100 Gitmo detainees to its prison (thinkprogress)
  • Israel: The Abused Victim That Has Become the Insatiable Abuser:
    • Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering the Warsaw Gaza ghetto (haaretz)
  • Laws Are Just to Control Little People:
    • The 13 people who made torture possible (salon) "The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it."
    • Jeremy Scahill: Spanish Investigation Reveals 'An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture' Under Bush (rebelreports)
    • Glenn Greenwald: Distorting public opinion on torture investigations (salon)
    • The Torturer Times: The Washington Post’s Partisan Press Release Service (emptywheel)
  • The Biggest Theft in History:
    • Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part VI (sjlendman) -- See entry on 05-15 for part V (Lendman: Reviewing Ellen . . .).
  • Eta Carinae and the Homunculus Nebula (apod)
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