Author Archives: Diane Warth

By Fred Wertheimer Wednesday, December 15, 2010 With its disastrous Citizens United decision in January, the Supreme Court, its eyes wide shut, opened a Pandora’s box. The five justices who struck down the ban on corporate expenditures in federal elections … Continue reading →

By Glen Greenwald Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 02:15 ET Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been … Continue reading →

by Bernard Keane Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law. It appears at least one of the major credit cards also … Continue reading →

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine “The bottom-line: The fact that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians showed up for Hamas’s annual anniversary in Gaza on Tuesday is a clarion testimony that Hamas is here to stay, regardless of Israeli and … Continue reading →

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:09 AM on 15th December 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in a British jail after the Swedish authorities appealed against a decision to grant him bail. The whistleblower was handed his freedom … Continue reading →