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The Boiling Frogs Presents Coleen Rowley This is Part II of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State. You can listen to Part I here. Coleen Rowley joins us to share her views and thoughts on the state of the misleadingly named ‘criminal justice system’ in the ... [Link] [Cache]

photo: bazylek100/flickr Glenn Greenwald had a good story yesterday about continuing human rights abuses in Libya, and how you cannot justify interventions on “humanitarian” grounds without being concerned about what you leave behind. There’s more indication of that today with this ugly situation described by Doctors Without Borders: Doctors Without ... [Link] [Cache]

Nominate an Occupation to Win a Tent or Laptop: All fields required There have already been over 700 nominations of local occupations for outstanding community activism, representing 149 occupations across the country. Occupy Supply announced the contest yesterday, and we’ll be accepting nominations up until this Monday. Five occupations will ... [Link] [Cache]

Charlotte Silver 27 January 2012 An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo. [Link] [Cache]

photo by The Lane Team/flickr Former Obama Administration transition official Mike Lux was the first to report that the liability release on foreclosure fraud “looks tight.” In other words, the release is limited to mostly post-crisis conduct, basically robo-signing and servicer abuse. Private right of action would still be available ... [Link] [Cache]

Ethan Bronner Front page above the fold today at the 'NYT,' stenographer to the Israelis Ethan Bronner reports, "Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation": Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set ... [Link] [Cache]

Bekah Wolf 27 January 2012 One year after a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli settlers as he farmed with his father in his West Bank village, his killers remain unpunished. [Link] [Cache]

Brad MillerCould Brad Miller, who just yesterday announced his retirement from Congress, be urged to turn around and run in the Governor’s race in North Carolina? It could happen. Hours after Miller made his announcement yesterday, Bev Perdue, the embattled governor of the state, announced that she would not seek ... [Link] [Cache]

London'In a recent interview ... in Australia , a past ambassador to Syria has even stated that it is "outside" forces perpetrating the violence, and that Assad is popular and well liked.' - Syria + Assassinations = Mossad + CIA"He was often bullied by older kids and even grown-ups. We ... [Link] [Cache]

Don't ask Mitt how to solve Florida's uninsured problems photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr During Thursday night’s GOP debate, a woman from Florida told the candidates she’d lost her job and with it her health insurance. What would each of the candidates do to get her covered or otherwise provide the health ... [Link] [Cache]

It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders. If the copyright industry had ... [Link] [Cache]

Mexico, Jan 27.- Over 2.5 million Mexicans are at risk of being affected by famine if the actions are not taken to counteract the losses that drought has caused to agriculture and livestock, warned a specialist of the Institute of Economic Research. [Link] [Cache]

Abdeen Jabara Last night in icy rainy Brooklyn there was a discussion and party for Jack Ross's new book Rabbi Outcast, sponsored by the wonderful group Brooklyn for Peace. First Ross read a brilliant essay about the role of Jewish nationalism in American Jewish life, and then there were responders. ... [Link] [Cache]

From the website for the film We are Nabi Saleh: We are Nabi Saleh’ is the portrait of a Palestinian village in resistance. Various aspects of the Israeli occupation are reflected in this village with only 500 inhabitants. This little village in the West Bank will never be the same ... [Link] [Cache]

'The crime of this trio alliance of Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah. is to have dared challenge America’s military hegemony in the Gulf and Israel’s military hegemony in the Levant." Patrick Seale DP-news – middle east online Support Rallies to Comprehensive Reforms Led and Masterminded by President Bashar al-AssadSeveral authoritative sources, ... [Link] [Cache]

ShareThisProsecutors Ordered to Identify NYC Terror Witness --Judge allows government to provide name under protective order barring defense from disclosing it to public 25 Jan 2012 A judge gave federal prosecutors until a week from Wednesday to give up the name of a witness they say was recruited for a ... [Link] [Cache]

Joe Rogan And Rosie O'Donnell On 'The Rosie Show' http://youtu.be/Df-o5TKv0C0 "Joe Rogan isn't afraid to get down to the bottom of things on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Watch as he and Rosie discuss a conspiracy theory surrounding the fall of Tower 7 on September 11, 2001." "The Rosie ... [Link] [Cache]

Camaguey, Cuba, Jan 27.- More than 440 railway equipments were repaired or received maintenance last year in the freight cars workshops in Camaguey province. [Link] [Cache]

If the priorities of the Harper government aren't fairly clear by now you, you've been living under rock. Everything is driven by the ideology espoused in this Harper speech. Now, Harper is going to start executing the agenda everyone on the right said he didn't have. You know - the ... [Link] [Cache]

The United Methodist Church will consider a resolution to divest from the Israeli occupation at its general conference in April in Tampa, FL. The campaign inside the church is a response to Palestinian Christians who two years ago made a call to churches around the world, communicating the strife of ... [Link] [Cache]

By Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada – 01/27/2012 Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that ... [Link] [Cache]

This is the graphic at the start of a piece by Spencer Ackerman at Tablet decrying the use of the term "Israel firster." Hitler graphic at Tablet for Israel firster piece I would point out only one absurd statement in Spencer Ackerman's argument: On Tuesday, writer Max Blumenthal used a ... [Link] [Cache]

photo: Gage Skidmore A new poll from Quinnipiac shows Mitt Romney’s lead over Gingrich in Florida has grown to nine points from just a two point lead earlier in the week. The size of the Romney lead in the Quinnipiac poll is nearly identical to the lead three other recent ... [Link] [Cache]

We have been following Gary Gensler's progress as Chairman of the CFTC where he has been tasked with helping to create the rules for regulating bank derivatives. Because of Gensler's former ties with Goldman Sachs, it seems as though Gensler has a conflict of interest in dealing with the bankruptcy ... [Link] [Cache]

I went to Josh Block's twitter feed today to see what he had to say about the flap over the Center for American Progress scandal that he ignited two months ago, and I find that this is his signature image on all his tweets:   Signature image of Block's twitter ... [Link] [Cache]

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What’s in the Store for the 5th Largest Supplier of Oil to the United States? By William Engdahl Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government ... [Link] [Cache]

The 1st National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba PCC will begin on Saturday to assess the work of that political organization objectively and critically, Granma newspaper reported on Friday. [Link] [Cache]

A protest in support of Haher Arar, a Canadian citizen sent to Syria to be tortured under the US rendition program Photo: Todd Heisler/New York Times It was widely reported last week that President Obama, during a televised meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, reiterated White House calls for Syrian ... [Link] [Cache]

Iran ridicules EU’s oil sanctions M K Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline, Jan 26 2012 China finally came out with a statement strongly critical of the EU sanctions against Iran’s oil exports. The FO spokesman in Beijing said the moves to put pressure on Iran and impose sanctions are not “constructive approaches”. ... [Link] [Cache]