What’s Up With Obama, Torture, and Secrecy?
Written by Russ Baker Recently, the New York Times published an editorial critical of the Supreme Court for failing to hear cases on kidnap and torture by the US government.…
Mexican Police Shut Down Bar for Prison Inmates
It's closing time for a bar that served beer, tequila and vodka to inmates at a prison in northern Mexico. Story unattributed. From globalpost.com Posted by YOS for LTS readers.…
One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street
Written by Robert Scheer Posted by YOS for LTS readers The fix was in to let the Wall Street scoundrels off the hook for the enormous damage they caused in…
High on the Hog at the Government Trough
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian The powers that be have decided that traditional farms - you know the mixed use farm with a barn and some livestock and cropland…
Preventing the Innocent from Being Executed: More Than 130 Death Row Inmates Exonerated and Released
Written by Bill Berkowitz Television has always had a love affair with detective programs, dating back to the late 1940s and early 1950s when such shows as "Man Against Crime,"…