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In this Jan. 23, 2002, file photo John Walker Lindh is seen in a photo released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Feb.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has kept an extensive file on exotic animal owner Sam Mazzola and urged the county sheriff and prosecutor to charge the Columbia Township man with reckless homicide in the fatal Aug.

House and Senate bills to empower agribusiness, not increase food safety.

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By Bruce Levine - September 2010

...[Is] it just a coincidence that disabling mental illness and psychiatric drug use have been rapidly increasing at the same time?...[The] most scientifically identifiable factor for the increase of severe psychiatric problems is the increase in psychiatric drug use...[L]ong-term psychiatric drug use has caused children and adults with minor emotional problems to have severe and chronic disorders that result in mental illness disabilities.

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A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.

Virginia's attorney general has the authority to investigate whether a former University of Virginia climate-change researcher defrauded state taxpayers, but the prosecutor has failed so far to spell out what he suspects the professor did wrong, a judge ruled Monday.

US-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority begin today in Washington. Both sides agreed to sit down last month after the US successfully pressured Palestinian leaders to drop their precondition of an Israeli settlement freeze. On the eve of the summit, Palestinian militants killed four Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. We speak with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada. [includes rush transcript]

While the US invasion and occupation of Iraq over the past seven years has inflicted multiple disasters on the country, many argue that the US assault on Iraq really began twenty years ago with the US-imposed economic sanctions. Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, writes, "U.S. policymakers effectively turned a program of international governance into a legitimized act of mass slaughter." [includes rush transcript]

In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Obama said the US had closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis. But many US bases remain in Iraq, as well as the massive US embassy in Baghdad, the size of eighty football fields. We play a report on US bases in Iraq by independent journalist Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films. [includes rush transcript]

President Obama declared an end to the combat mission in Iraq Tuesday night in the second Oval Office address of his presidency. Although tens of thousands of US troops, special operations forces and private contractors remain in Iraq, Obama announced that Operation Iraqi Freedom is now officially over. We go to Baghdad to speak with independent journalist Nir Rosen. [includes rush transcript]

• Obama Declares End to US Combat Operations in Iraq
• 4 Israeli Settlers Killed on Eve of Mideast Talks
• Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay
• Bank Profits Soar, But Lending Drops
• Murkowski Concedes Alaska GOP Senate Primary
• 5 Arrested After Shots Fired at New York Mosque
• Seattle Man Charged with Hate Crime after Attack on Turban-Wearing Clerk
• Poll: 71% of New Yorkers Oppose Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan
• Deal Reached to Provide Dialysis Treatment to Undocumented Immigrants in Atlanta
• Gov't Sues Arizona Colleges for Anti-Immigrant Discrimination
• Migrant Deaths Nearing Record in Arizona
• Study: Hiring of Immigrant Workers Triggers Economic Benefits
• NY Enacts Domestic Workers Rights' Law
• Texas Appeals Court Upholds Gay Marriage, Divorce Ban
• Greenpeace Shuts Down Offshore Drilling Rig in Greenland

A Hogansville timber tycoon is donating $1.4 million to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

On more than one occasion vegans have been accused of practicing a privileged activism.

By JONATHAN COOK - June 28, 2010

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, [has] set out...what he [calls] a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders...He accused many of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of acting against Israel while their leaders “actively assist those who want to destroy the Jewish state”.

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By RUSSELL MOKHIBER - August 30, 2010

Move over Animal Farm...Here comes Animal Factory...Making us sick and poisoning the environment...“[W]hen you cram thousands of animals into a single confined space without access to fresh air, outdoor sunlight, pasture, natural animal behaviors – you are asking for problems in the form of diseases that attack people.”

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By Roslyn Cassells and Grant Fraser - August 29, 2010

The year-long closure of Vancouver's most visited park has illustrated the push for gentrification in one of Vancouver's poorest neighbourhoods, and the determination of the civic government to serve their political masters in the face of strong grassroots opposition to the plan.

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The Unity College team is Jason Reynolds '05, who is featured in the documentary A Road Not Taken and Jesse Pyles, Unity College Sustainability Coordinator.

Civil rights groups are suing an Orange County government contractor that was the target of an immigration raid this summer.

By Toronto Community Mobilization Network - August 31, 2010

Many people that spent the last year as the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, putting together the infrastructure for the Convergence have been arrested, beaten, and intimidated. Many of our most beloved and central organizers are under house arrest conditions while many others in the city have leaped forward to join the resistance...A new organizing space, the Community Solidarity Network, has just been formed. We see ourselves as the central networking, trust-building and organizing hub for the post-G20 defence happening in different spheres across Toronto.

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By Frances Russell - August 31, 2010

Canadian Press reported last June that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had lunch with Rupert Murdoch...Kory Teneckye, Harper's recently-retired communications director, was also present...Teneycke has become the point man propelling...[the] plan to create a right-wing television network modeled on Fox News..."The new network is a high priority for Harper, for whom controlling the message has always been... of paramount importance..."

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