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Prosecutors: Zimmerman Ignored 911 Dispatch, Confronted Trayvon
by Kirsten West Savali George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with second degree murder in the February 26 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has consistently stated through family and legal council that he returned to his car after being directed to do so by the 911 operator. A court affidavit read during Zimmerman’s…
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Castro, Baseball and the Thought Police
by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses to recant his praise for Fidel Castro. He’s already been punished with a five-game suspension,…
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Christians Fight for Their Children’s God-Given Right to Bully Gay Kids
By Erin Gloria Ryan Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has called upon them to act like jerks. That’s why they’re actively working against the passage…
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Dartmouth Sorority Girl Goes Public With Her Hazing Nightmare
By Cassie Murdoch After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels of fraternity houses. (Kiddie pools full of bodily fluids and eating something called a vomlet,…
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Austerity Kills: Greeks Declare ‘Financial Murder’ at Funeral of Elderly Man
By Andrew Bashi “I am not committing suicide. They are killing me.” According to one witness, these were the last words of 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas before shooting himself in the head in Greece’s Syntagma Square last week. Speaking to The Guardian, mourners of the retired pharmacist agreed. “For me it is not a suicide ……
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Pensioner’s Suicide Continues to Shake Greece
By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its relevance amid an economic and social meltdown. Dimitris Christoulas, a divorced and retired pharmacist, took…
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Data Mining You
by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. On March 22, Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr. signed off on…
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On “Bias”
Introduction: Contemporary Bourgeois Journalism Any person who has watched or read a mainstream news source like CNN or Fox News, The New York Times or the Washington Post, will have eventually been confronted with the concept of “unbiased reporting.” The idea here is that “they report, we decide.” We are supposed to see as desirable,…
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Humanitarian Aid Is Military Intervention
By Joel Poindexter The recent YouTube documentary Kony 2012 has become quite a sensation. It has inspired millions of people to demand, in one form or another, that the U.S. military take action in Uganda in order to bring to justice a supposedly ruthless warlord. The fact that numerous wars are being waged already, none…
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Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to decades in prison over the killing of two people and wounding of four others fleeing the massive flooding of the city by hurricane…
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