Charles Pierce | What We Lost on June 6
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "June 6 is always one of the more fraught days on the calendar. The annual anniversary of the D-Day landings in France would be more than enough for one day to carry through history, but June 6 also happens to be the day on which, after lingering for several hours, Robert F. Kennedy died in Los Angeles at the age of, god help us all, 42."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "June 6 is always one of the more fraught days on the calendar. The annual anniversary of the D-Day landings in France would be more than enough for one day to carry through history, but June 6 also happens to be the day on which, after lingering for several hours, Robert F. Kennedy died in Los Angeles at the age of, god help us all, 42."
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Why Is Black Lives Matter Activist Facing Four Years in Jail While Stanford Rapist Gets Six Months?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "In California, Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards faces up to four years in prison at her sentencing today after she was convicted of a rarely used statute in California law known up until recently as 'felony lynching.'"
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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "In California, Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards faces up to four years in prison at her sentencing today after she was convicted of a rarely used statute in California law known up until recently as 'felony lynching.'"
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Ryan: Trump's Comments About Judge Are 'Textbook' Racism
Scott Wong, The Hill
Wong writes: "Donald Trump's criticism of a judge because of his ethnicity are 'the textbook definition of racist comments,' Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday during an event on poverty in Washington D.C. 'I regret these comments that he made,' Ryan said. 'I think that should be absolutely disavowed.'"
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Scott Wong, The Hill
Wong writes: "Donald Trump's criticism of a judge because of his ethnicity are 'the textbook definition of racist comments,' Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday during an event on poverty in Washington D.C. 'I regret these comments that he made,' Ryan said. 'I think that should be absolutely disavowed.'"
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Do No Harm: The Role of Psychologists in Death-Penalty Sentencing
Sana Sheikh, Jacobin
Sheik writes: "Last year's Hoffman Report, which came out of an independent review of the world's largest organization of psychologists, the American Psychological Association (APA), made waves in the field of psychology."
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Sana Sheikh, Jacobin
Sheik writes: "Last year's Hoffman Report, which came out of an independent review of the world's largest organization of psychologists, the American Psychological Association (APA), made waves in the field of psychology."
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Judge: Release Grand Jury Material to Michael Brown's Family
Jim Suhr, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A St. Louis federal judge is ordering for the first time the release of unredacted grand jury transcripts in the Ferguson police shooting death of Michael Brown to lawyers for his family."
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Jim Suhr, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A St. Louis federal judge is ordering for the first time the release of unredacted grand jury transcripts in the Ferguson police shooting death of Michael Brown to lawyers for his family."
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Brazil Prosecutors Call for Arrest of Politicians Who Led Coup Against Rousseff
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Brazil's chief prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to authorize the arrest of the presidents of the Senate and of the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, for allegedly trying to obstruct police investigations, newspaper O Globo said on Tuesday."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Brazil's chief prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to authorize the arrest of the presidents of the Senate and of the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, for allegedly trying to obstruct police investigations, newspaper O Globo said on Tuesday."
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Rewilding Our National Parks
Paula Mackay and John Davis, Earth Island Journal
Except: "Rocky Wilson and his wife had settled into camp for the evening when they caught sight of a bear emerging from the brush. It was late September 1968 and the Wilsons were hunting in Fisher Basin, one of their favorite places in Washington State's North Cascades mountains."
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Paula Mackay and John Davis, Earth Island Journal
Except: "Rocky Wilson and his wife had settled into camp for the evening when they caught sight of a bear emerging from the brush. It was late September 1968 and the Wilsons were hunting in Fisher Basin, one of their favorite places in Washington State's North Cascades mountains."
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