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Archives for July 2012

Mixed Feelings About Race Relations In Post-Obama US As Hate Crimes Reach Record High

(MintPress) — “The fantasy was that electing a black president would end racism for good, and it was just that – a fantasy, of course,” Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report told MintPress. While many Americans heralded the 2008 election of the first African-American as a […]

Carissa Wyant
By Carissa Wyant
In this July 27, 2012, photo President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. As the nation moves toward the multiracial future heralded by this son of an African father and white mother, the events of Obama's first term, and what people make of them, help trace the racial arc of his presidency. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(MintPress) — “The fantasy was that electing a black president would end racism for good, and it was just that - a fantasy, of course,” Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report told MintPress. While many Americans heralded the 2008 election of the first African-American as

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Uncertainty Lingers As Muslim Brotherhood Tries To Unite Egyptians, Prove Itself Politically

(MintPress) – “It appears that there has been deep penetration in the halls of our United States government by the Muslim Brotherhood,”said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in a June, 2012 radio interview. The one time Republican presidential contender has lashed out against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Huma Abedin, the Deputy Chief of Staff and […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
In this photo released by Middle East News Agency, the Egyptian official news agency, President-elect Mohammed Morsi, front left, is accompanied by Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, third left, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Middle East News Agency, HO)

(MintPress) – "It appears that there has been deep penetration in the halls of our United States government by the Muslim Brotherhood,”said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in a June, 2012 radio interview. The one time Republican presidential contender has lashed out against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Huma Abedin, the Deputy Chief of Staff and

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More Than 5,000 Activists Converge on D.C., Demanding National Fracking Ban

(MintPress) — Five-thousand environmental activists representing more than 136 organizations met in Washington D.C. over the weekend, in one of the largest national anti-fracking demonstrations. A broad coalition of people, including well known environmentalist Bill McKibben, converged on the capital, demanding Congress take steps to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” a practice that many […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
Activists and homeowners march following a protest against hydraulic gas drilling, or "fracking." (AP Photo/Mark Stehle)

(MintPress) — Five-thousand environmental activists representing more than 136 organizations met in Washington D.C. over the weekend, in one of the largest national anti-fracking demonstrations. A broad coalition of people, including well known environmentalist Bill McKibben, converged on the capital, demanding Congress take steps to ban hydraulic

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Scientist Funded By Koch Brothers Changes Tune On Human’s Role In Climate Change

(MintPress) — A scientist formally touted by the Koch brothers for his anti-climate change views is reversing his assertions, now claiming that the phenomenon is real and caused by humans, raising alarm among those in the conservative party who question the scientist’s allegiances. Richard A. Muller’s new claims come just days after NASA scientists claimed […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
Visitors walk past images of a climate color coded globe of the world projected on the Geo-Cosmos, a sphere with a diameter of 6.5 meters (21 feet), Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, at Tokyo's MeSci, or The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. The dark red/black areas represent no current changes in climate. The lighter red/pink areas represent some sort of change in climate and the white areas symbolize a very high level of change. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

(MintPress) — A scientist formally touted by the Koch brothers for his anti-climate change views is reversing his assertions, now claiming that the phenomenon is real and caused by humans, raising alarm among those in the conservative party who question the scientist’s allegiances. Richard A. Muller’s new claims come just days after NASA

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Permanent War: Official US Policy

Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the sword. One day it’ll perish by it. Perhaps so will humanity. The more […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
In this Sunday, July 29, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army soldiers are seen at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Turkpix)

Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the sword. One day it'll perish by it. Perhaps so will humanity. The more wars it wages

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Colo. Suspect Charged With 24 Counts Of Murder

Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first court appearance last week, but at one point exchanged […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
In this Monday, July 23, 2012 file photo, James Holmes, accused of killing 12 people in Friday's shooting rampage in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, appears in Arapahoe County District Court with defense attorney Tamara Brady in Centennial, Colo. (AP Photo/Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)

Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first court appearance last week, but at one point exchanged a few words with one

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