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Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...

Why is Cindy Sheehan targeted and not John Bolton?...

The key piece of info in this article is not in what the main story is about. It doesn't appear until the very last paragraph. It's just one more piece of evidence that Condi was completely full of it when she claimed no one imagined using planes as weapons -- nevermind the widely publish reports in the mid-90s about the people in the Philippines who were planning to highjack multiple US planes simultaneously and crash them into the ocean. "...the FBI knew in the early 1990s that al...

3-9-6 So, what is the plan? On the March 8, 2006 edition of the CNN American Morning program with Miles O'Brien and Soledad O'Brien, they made a startling announcement. On average there are 175,000 new cases of lung cancer each year in the United States. For just the months of January and February 2006 there are 172,000 confirmed, newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer. This is not just a little spike on the charts and much worse news is coming. That is already averaging this year a...

Groups Representing Poultry Workers Cite Slaughterhouse Heath and Safety Concerns...

AK Steel’s lockout of 2,700 workers at its Middletown, Ohio, mill entered its second week Thursday as evidence mounts that the company’s provocative actions and its sweeping demands for job cuts and wage and benefit concessions are aimed at making it more attractive to a potential buyer....

AT&T has yet to file an application with the FCC for its proposed acquisition of BellSouth, but FCC Chair Kevin Martin has already issued a public statement promising to examine "any allegations of specific harm in individual markets" caused by the union of the two telephone companies....

On January 20th, eleven people were indicted in Oregon by a grand jury investigating acts of sabotage linked to the underground Earth Liberation Front (ELF)....

NEW YORK -- A prominent off-Broadway theater says it still hopes to present "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a politically charged play about a young American student who was killed while trying to stop the Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza....

Ever since President Eisenhower's farewell address, there have been sporadic warnings about the Military Industrial Complex. Over the last couple of decades, critics like Ernest Fitzgerald and Chuck Spinney have performed a valuable public service by uncovering the Pentagon's lunatic potlatch schemes and dragging them before the bar of public opinion. Lately, organizations such as the Project on Government Oversight, the Center for Defense Information, and the Committee against Government Was...