2011-12+Articles

=2011 - 12 Articles=

[|Last American Troops Leave Iraq] - Analysis from LA Times

[|Russia: Putin says you WILL demonstrate to show your support of me...]

[|U.S. Surveillance Drone Goes Down in Iran] -- Oops...

[|Political Unrest in Russia Blamed on Hillary Clinton]

[|Police (American) Spray U.C. Davis Students with Pepper Spray] - students were staging a nonviolent protest over tuition costs and cuts to education.

[|The Umbrella Man] - a short film by director Errol Morris, whose films The Fog of War and Thin Blue Line are worth checking out.

[|Child Police of India] - No, not police that "keep kids in line," children who are actually police officers.

[|India's Child Police (additional article)]

[|Penn State Students Riot after Joe Paterno is fired] -- what do you make of this?

[|Flooding Cripples Capital of Thailand]

[|U.N. Agency Says Iran Data Points to A-Bomb Work] - this is definitely not good news. See story below.

[|Israel considers air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities] - Israel has been talking about this for years but recent events have raised concern even more.

[|Outrage Over Veteran Injured at 'Occupy' Protest] - Oakland California

[|Designing Creative Solutions] for poor living conditions around the world -- Many times the best ideas come from the residents themselves. With assistance in carrying out their ideas, positive changes take place. Numerous examples are given.

[|Brief overview of Occupy Wall Street and what it's all about]

I[|ndian College Students using American Ivy League Universities as their "safety" schools]

[|Justifying the killing of an American by the CIA] (Editorial comment)

[|Vietnam and Afghanistan:] What's the connection?

[|Changing the world through Music?]

[|60 Minutes Story on the above]

[|El Sistema Music Training Coming to USA Universities]

[|As Scorn for the Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around the World:] Capitalism and Democracy are getting a bad reputation. But if they aren't the answer, what is?

[|U.S. Born Al Queda Leader Killed in Libya (Predator drone strike)]

[|Predator Drone Strike on U.S. Citizen Raises Issues] “As we’ve seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts,” Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU’s deputy legal director, said in a statement.

[|Companies use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit:] Private security companies often illegally detain immigrants, holding them under poor conditions and using violence to control them. At the same time, the companies are making money.

[|Man is Held in Plot to Bomb Washington:] model airplanes and C-4 plastic explosive--a dangerous combination.

[|Are Term Papers a Waste of Time?] See what experts in the fields of information and education have to say.

[|Iron Workers Above Manhattan Rebuild at the site of the Twin Towers] (slide show with ironworkers voiceover)

[|What to do with Quaddafi if and when he is caught]

[|Water Pistols and Revolution in Iran]

[|U.S. Withdrawal of Forces in Iraq]

[|Security since 9/11: Worth the Cost?]

[|Who Were the September 11 Hijackers?]

[|Audio Tapes from 9/11 Released]

[|9/11 Audio Tape Excerpts] //Note: Some audio contains explicit language and disturbing content.//