August 2011
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NBA: Nothing hopeful emerges from lockout talks
NBA commissioner David Stern said there was no hopeful news for fans after a 2-1/2-hour meeting with players union leaders on Monday, the first talks since club owners locked out players one month ago.
It was the first session featuring Stern, NBA players association executive director Billy Hunter and union president Derek Fisher, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers since the lockout began...
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Fullerton police beating of homeless man is under...
As they boarded an Orange County transit bus the night of July 5, passengers recounted a disturbing story in graphic detail: A homeless man near the bus station was under attack by police officers. “The cops are kicking this poor guy over there, all these cops,” one woman told the bus driver in a conversation captured on a grainy bus surveillance tape. “He’s almost...
Fighting back against the CIA drone war →
They call it “bug splat”, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those manning the consoles in Nevada, it signifies “suspected militants” who have just been “neutralised”; to those on the ground, in most cases, it represents a family that has been shattered, a home destroyed.
Since June 18, 2004, when the CIA began its policy of...
