Friday, March 7, 2014

RSN: Enron Billionaire Brags About Being Expert on Cutting Pensions, 44 Years a Prisoner: The Case of Eddie Conway, et al



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Robert Parry | Putin or Kerry: Who's Delusional?
John Kerry. (photo: file)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Official Washington and its compliant mainstream news media operate with a convenient situational ethics when it comes to the principles of international law and non-intervention in sovereign states."
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Tom Engelhardt and Mattea Kramer | Why Washington Doesn't Want to Leave Afghanistan
Tom Engelhardt and Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch
Engelhardt and Kramer write: "At stake has been leaving a residual force of U.S. and NATO trainers, advisors, and special operations types behind for years to come, perhaps (the figures varied with the moment) 3,000-12,000 of them."
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David Sirota | Enron Billionaire Brags About Being Expert on Cutting Pensions
David Sirota, PandoDaily
Sirota writes: "One particular reaction to Pando's scoop was downright newsworthy, and that was the reaction from John Arnold himself."
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Amy Goodman | 44 Years a Prisoner: The Case of Eddie Conway
Amy Goodman, Truthdig
Goodman writes: "Marshall 'Eddie' Conway walked free from prison this week, just one month shy of 44 years behind bars."
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Meet the Company That Can Track Everywhere You've Been and Tell Police About It
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Ganeva writes: "As it turns out, DHS didn't need a national license-plate database, because such a database already exists. It's run by a private company called Vigilant Solutions and ICE and other law enforcement agencies have been dipping into it for years."
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Steeped in Bloody History, and Seeing a Chance to Rewrite It
Andrew Higgins, The New York Times
An excellent historical perspective on the depth of Russia's ties in the Crimea. Required reading.
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Nine-Month-Old Baby May Have Been Cured of HIV, US Scientists Say
Scott Malone, Reuters
Malone reports: "A 9-month-old baby who was born in California with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS may have been cured as a result of treatments that doctors began just four hours after her birth."
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