The Guardian: Afghanistan's unjust war 2010-07-31
We must apply the just war tradition to our analysis of the conflict in Afghanistan. Otherwise, we risk disaster
Seattle Times: US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record high in month of July 2010-07-31
The deaths of at least 66 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen have made July the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan.
NPR: November Hearing For Arizona Immigration Law 2010-07-31
A federal appeals court says it will hold a hearing in November on Arizona's challenge to a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration law on hold. | The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued a two-page order Friday denying Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request for an earlier hearing date.
newamericamedia.org: Breaking News: Lawyer Observing Phoenix Protests Arrested 2010-07-29
Sunita Patel, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, flew in from New York to provide legal support to a civil disobedience protest against SB 1070 at a downtown Phoenix jail. In an unlikely switch, Sherrif Joe Arpaio’s deputies arrested her and took her to the Third Avenue jail.
Monitor: Immigrant advocacy groups say immigration ruling offers temporary reprieve 2010-07-30
The judge's order that blocked most of Arizona's immigration law from going into effect won't stop the deportations that terrorize South Texas' undocumented residents, immigration reform advocates said Thursday.
Washington Post: Right-wing propaganda revisited: A reply to readers 2010-07-30
There are two issues here. One has to do with the mainstream media’s willingness to accept conservative frames on ongoing controversies. The other has to do with the right’s ability to push entirely untrue allegations into the mainstream discussion...”
NYTimes.com: 1 Soldier or 20 Schools in Afghanistan? 2010-07-29
In the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama promised to invest in a global education fund. Since then, he seems to have forgotten the idea — even though he is spending enough every five weeks in Afghanistan to ensure that practically every child on our planet gets a primary education.
NYTimes.com (Editorial Board): Showdown in Arizona 2010-07-29
Mr. Obama took a big risk when he filed suit against the Arizona law, and deserves credit for that. We hope he goes on to make clear to all the states that the Arizona way is not the American way.
AZ Central.com: The day after SB 1070 ruling: What to expect 2010-07-29
A vigil that has lasted for more than 100 days outside the State Capitol will break early Thursday morning when participants and their supporters begin a march and carrying the Virgen de Guadalupe to Trinity Cathedral beginning at 4 a.m.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA: Full Text of AZ Immigration Ruling (PDF) 2010-07-28
United States of America, Plaintiff, vs. State of Arizona; and Janice K. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, in her Official Capacity, Defendants.
sfgate.com: Cooling things down in Arizona 2010-07-29
As the U.S. government stated in its motion for an injunction, "the Constitution and federal law do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies."
latimes.com: Arizona immigration: Immigration law blocked 2010-07-28
A federal judge has halted the most controversial elements of Arizona's new immigration law, which had been scheduled to take effect at midnight. | U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Wednesday halted implementation of the parts of the law that require police to determine the status of people they stop and think are in the country illegally. She also forbade the state from charging anyone for a new crime of failing to possess immigration documents.
Arizona Daily Star: Judges ruling blocks parts of SB1070 2010-07-28
Bolton noted that the Obama administration did not challenge several other provisions of the law. | That includes: | Making it a crime to stop a vehicle in traffic to hire a day laborer or for someone looking for work to get into a stopped vehicle; | Requiring state officials to work with the federal government regarding illegal immigrants; | Allowing Arizona residents to file suit against any agency, official, city or county for adopting policies that restrict the ability of workers to enforce federal immigration law "to less than the full extent permitted by federal law."
CommonDreams.org: Ruling on AZ Law: The Federal Courts Had to Step In, Lasting Solution Can Only Come from Congress 2010-07-28
The tragic fact is that the judicial system was forced to intervene and impose adult supervision in response to the irresponsible and divisive behavior by the elected officials who currently run Arizona.
New York Daily News: Arizona immigration law SB 1070 has most controversial parts blocked by federal judge 2010-07-28
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked all of the most controversial parts of Arizona's tough new "papers, please" immigration law, which was to take effect Thursday.
The Associated Press: Judge delays injunction in Neb. immigration suits 2010-07-29
A judge says she's not sure whether lawsuits filed to block a Nebraska city's ban on hiring and renting to illegal immigrants should be heard in federal or state court.
Washington Post: Bill on political ad disclosures falls a little short in Senate 2010-07-28
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political advertising, derailing a major White House initiative and virtually ensuring an onslaught of attack ads during this year's midterm election season.
The Associated Press: Neb. city council votes to delay immigration law 2010-07-28
A city in eastern Nebraska has suspended a voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants, less than two days before it was set to take effect. | Officials say the move will save the city money in its legal defense.
Asian Tribune: WikiLeaks disclosure of US Secret Afghan war documents reveals US War Crimes 2010-07-27
The most significant and salient message that emanates from the 75,000 Secret Classified U.S. documents on the Afghanistan war theater disclosed on Monday, 26 July by the online whistleblower WikiLeaks is the evidence of U.S. war crimes.
World Socialist Web Site: A record of a war crimes 2010-07-27
The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks have provided a detailed, documentary portrait of the criminal war being waged by the Obama administration.
Focus News: Independent: Released Nato files only scratch the surface of war in Afghanistan 2010-07-27
While allied governments strove yesterday to downplay the import of the online posting of more than 75,000 classified documents about Nato's war in Afghanistan, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, said they only scratched the surface and 15,000 more papers were still being reviewed....
Personal Liberty Digest: Arizona Police Officer Calls Immigration Law Racist 2010-07-27
"This law will make me feel like a Nazi out there," said Officer Paul Dobson, a 20-year veteran of the force. "I have a great deal of contempt for it… I’m very emotional about it. This law is pure and simple a racist law."
Progressive States Network: Anti-immigrant Proposals Continue to Fail in Wake of Arizona's Law 2010-07-27
As this Dispatch will detail, after considerable media hype about Arizona-style bills sweeping across the nation, the reality is that from from Nevada to Arkansas to Massachusetts to Kansas and Rhode Island, anti-immigrant bills and ballot initiatives largely didn't move or failed to make this fall's ballot.
guardian.co.uk: Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet 2010-07-26
Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. | It must be one of the biggest leaks in intelligence history. An archive of almost 90,000 files has come to light thanks to Wikileaks, logging the history of the war in Afghanistan, practically blow-by-blow. We've trawled through these incidents to help you make sense of the key events.
NYTimes.com: You'll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing 2010-07-26
President Obama's race problem: a White House in the truest sense of the word. | The Obama White House is too white.
Washington Post: Virginia NAACP head slams Webb for affirmative action column 2010-07-27
"Do you really believe that affirmative action has hurt white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants or are you pandering to the divisive, conservative, Tea Bagger types whose votes you will need in 2012?" Khalfani asked. "The true beneficiaries of affirmative action programs are white, Anglo-Saxon women...overwhelmingly."
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The Hill: Mike Lillis: On Medicares birthday, a call to make it universal 2010-07-31
As Medicare supporters are celebrating the program's 45th birthday Friday, several Capitol Hill liberals are wondering: Why not expand it to everyone?
CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM: Hate And That Arizona Immigration Law 2010-07-30
A U.S. Marshal in Arizona was quoted as saying that Judge Bolton has received thousands of phone calls and e-mails since her preliminary injunction Wednesday that put key provisions of the state`s immigration law on hold, many `from people venting and who have expressed their displeasure in a perverted way.`
Palestine Note: Hip hop as global resistance 2010-07-30
Israel sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Salon: Media fooled by right-wing propaganda -- again 2010-07-29
Sleazy tactics similar to those employed by online provocateur Andrew Breitbart against former USDA official Shirley Sherrod have been driving the national political conversation and intimidating the so-called mainstream media for the better part of a generation now.
Salon: Fox Democrats accuse Obama of doing what Fox does 2010-07-29
Official Fox News Democrats-in-residence Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen got together to write one of their op-eds about how the Democrats are Bad and Wrong.
The Economist: Arizona and immigration: Arizona, rogue state 2010-07-28
This law had divided the nation. Supporters saw it as a long-overdue bid by a state to arrest and drive out illegal immigrants, a job they believe the federal government has wilfully neglected. Liberal America portrayed it as a draconian measure that would lead to racial profiling and worse, passed by a state legislature which Harper’s magazine said recently was composed “almost entirely of dimwits, racists and cranks”.
The Baltimore Chronicle: Stephen Lendman: Growing Health Crisis in the Gulf 2010-07-28
Oil is toxic at 11 parts per million (ppm) while Corexit 9500 at only 2.61 ppm, and Corexit 9527 even less, the EPA calling it an acute health hazard. Corexit also contain arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury, cyanide, and other heavy metals. Dispersing oil with it increases toxicity 11-fold, suggesting a calamitous looming public health disaster.
Dissident Voice: Experts: Health Hazards in Gulf Warrant Evacuations 2010-07-27
When Louisiana residents ask marine toxicologist and community activist Riki Ott what she would do if she lived in the Gulf with children, she tells them she would leave immediately. “It’s that bad. We need to start talking about who’s going to pay for evacuations.”
Salon: Arizona's Chinese food immigration problem 2010-07-27
Pei Wei franchise in Chandler, Arizona, fired 12 Hispanic employees who took an unauthorized day off to join a protest May 29 against SB 1070, the infamous anti-illegal immigration law that authorizes police officers to conduct identity checks on brown-skinned people for no good reason whatsoever.