Tag Archives: US
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares
May 18, 2013
On June 28, 2012, three longtime peace activists — Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 and Michael Walli, 63 — cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,...
Wal-Mart Opts To Not Sign Garment Factory Safety Agreement, Creates Own Policy
By Katie Rucke
After clothing brands for many Western-owned retailers were found in the rubble of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh last month, many fashion brands have announced plans to improve worker safety. The collapse killed more than 1,100 people...
Somali-American Faces Life In Prison For Donating To Al-Shabaab
By Martin Michaels
A Minnesota humanitarian worker named Amina Farah Ali faces life in prison for charges of providing material support for Al-Shabaab, an armed group in Somalia considered a terrorist organization by a bevy of countries, including the U.S., Australia and Canada. Her sentencing...
Charitable Donations Keep Arizona Buyback Program Alive Before Summer Ban
By Trisha Marczak
More than $200,000 in charitable donations are giving Arizona residents another opportunity to take part in a gun buyback program, just one month after Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law that essentially will halt similar programs from taking place. The law...
UN General Assembly Censures Syria, But With Less Support Than Previous Resolutions
By Talia Ralph
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning Assad’s regime Wednesday, as the death toll in the war-torn nation hit at least 80,000.
“At least 80,000 have perished since the start of the hostilities, with most of those casualties believed...
Museum To Honor Henry Kissinger, But Is He Worthy Of Praise?
By Frederick Reese
In recent American history, a litany of different personalities have occupied the executive office at the Harry S Truman building at Foggy Bottom. War hawks, accommodationists, international diplomats and isolationists have entered and left the position of secretary of...
Obama Continues To Hack Away At Press Freedoms
By Mint Press News Desk
The New York Times (NYT) editorial board is calling out the Obama administration for “secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.” It’s a bold allegation that has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups and concerned...
Museum For Fallen Journalists Bans Names Of Palestinian Journalists Killed By IDF
By Martin Michaels
By most accounts, 2012 was a rough year for press freedoms, seeing journalists targeted for reporting what various regimes didn’t like. More than 80 journalists were killed while reporting the news in some of the most dangerous conflict zones around the world, including...
ExxonMobil Gears Up For Publicity Battle As US Oil Reserve Estimates Climb
By Trisha Marczak
As America battles the prospect of a 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline constructed in the heartland of the nation that would transport more than 800,000 of oil through the U.S. every day, the oil-fracking movement is gaining even more traction with a new report indicating...
How To Catch A Dictator
By Mike McDonald
Elena Caba waited more than 30 years for justice after she was raped and left for dead in a river alongside her neighbors during Guatemala’s bloody civil war.
She was nine when soldiers stormed her Indigenous Ixil Maya village near Chajul in Guatemala’s western highlands...
