PBC News & Comment Thursday, June 21
NY Times reports that CIA is arming rebels in Syria via third parties; Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley raise important questions about new head of Amnesty International, Suzanne Nossel Read the...
View ArticleSpecial Report: California’s Barbaric Solitary Confinement Prisons
[subscribers] [/subscribers] Preview Clip In this special report, we feature 4 views on the use of long-term solitary confinement in the California prison system. Led by the Center for Constitutional...
View ArticlePBC News & Comment Friday, June 22
As Senate committee investigates solitary confinement in US prisons, we deliver Special Report on California’s “SHU”, and lead with an excerpt from Prof. Jules Lobel, new CCR president Sen. Dick...
View ArticleSupreme Disappointment: Supreme Court Summarily Dismisses Montana Appeal to...
Activist Adam Furgatch and attorney Carl Mayer comment on the brief, unsigned opinion that dismissed the appeal from Montana’s state supreme court, and the failure of Montana AG Steve Bullock to...
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View ArticlePBC News & Comment Tuesday, June 26
Supreme Court recap on Montana appeal of Citizens United, the ban on LWOP for teen convicts, and the Arizona immigration law, proving that Scalito, Roberts and Thomas are heartless Also: –Mississippi...
View ArticleBreaking: Karl Rove’s Rant on Fox May Have Been Triggered by His Concern Over...
[subscribers] [/subscribers] Our Deep South correspondent, Roger Shuler, shares his exclusive report that Karl Rove’s unhinged rant on Fox Nooz may be related to reports that he is bisexual, has young...
View ArticlePBC News & Comment Thursday, June 28
Supreme Court upholds most of Obamacare, corporate welfare for the health insurance industry, with some surprises; GOP-controlled House votes contempt for AG Holder, no surprisePBC comments on the...
View ArticlePBC News & Comment Friday, June 29
Next News & Comment July 9! Fox and CNN both blew it! They got the Obamacare decision wrong. America’s leading political commentator, Jon Stewart, rips into Fox and CNN –from Jon Stewart to...
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