News and Analysis from the United States
(Reuters) – A condemned man set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer in a high-profile case wants a polygraph test in a last-ditch bid to show his innocence, Amnesty International USA said…. Read More ›
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former Army recruiter who for the third time this year was hours away from his scheduled execution for the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth nearly 10 years ago was granted yet another reprieve… Read More ›
To All: I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all… Read More ›
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has denied clemency for death-row inmate Troy Davis. Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7… Read More ›
From Too Much Doubt:
A Georgia parole board Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Davis, a death row inmate who garnered global support for his claims of innocence. His execution is scheduled for Wednesday night. After hearing exhaustive pleas both from Troy Davis supporters and… Read More ›
by Richard Knox The first vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer, came out five years ago. But now it has become a hot political topic, thanks to a Republican presidential debate in which candidate Michele Bachmann… Read More ›
In our “democratic” society, we have been taught that, while everyone is entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” there are those who do not deserve the same “rights” to which we are all supposedly entitled. The exception… Read More ›
NEW YORK — Hundreds of people marched Saturday near Wall Street in New York, but the city thwarted their bid to descend into the heart of global finance itself to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Protesters had planned to… Read More ›
“the brigade for purging slaves, black skin” – slogan seen painted in rebel country Michael McGehee wrote in Victims of a Civil War, Z Magazine, April 5: Libya, located in northern Africa, has a majority Arab population. It also has… Read More ›
Freed slaves became spies They were made invisible by the color of their skin. They could not be seen because their enemy was blinded by ignorance. Federal troops sent African Americans, former slaves, into the Confederate breach to capture information… Read More ›
By Paul Street “Close to Perfect:” A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation’s leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. There was an… Read More ›
Ten Years On by VIJAY PRASHAD “No state shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” United Nations Convention… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 