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If the Senate Republican minority continues to use Senate rules to roadblock virtually every one of President Obama’s key nominees to vital government agencies, it’s time for Senate Democrats to use majority muscle to change the Senate’s rules, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen said today.
Pfc. Bradley Manning was young and naïve but "hoping to make the world a better place" when he leaked military secrets, his lawyer said Monday on the first day of his court-martial.Manning selected information that he believed the public should see but that could not be used against the United States, said the lawyer, David Coombs.“He was 22 years old,” Coombs said. “He was young. A little naïve,...
Pfc. Bradley Manning was young and naïve but “hoping to make the world a better place” when he leaked military secrets, his lawyer said Monday on the first day of his court-martial.Manning selected information that he believed the public should see but that could not be used against the United States, said the lawyer, David Coombs.“He was 22 years old,” Coombs said. “He was young. A little naïve,...
Pfc. Bradley Manning put fellow soldiers at risk when he carried out the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, a military prosecutor said Monday, describing the case as what happens when “arrogance meets access to sensitive information.”The prosecutor, Army Capt. Joe Morrow, said his side in the court-martial would prove that Manning knew what he was doing when he put the informa...
Last week, 150 members of the Palermo Workers Union and their allies marched 18 miles from the Palermo's Pizza plant in Milwaukee, Wis., to the Mequon, Wis., home of Palermo’s co-owner Angelo Fallucca to demand that he and his brother and co-owner, Giacomo, meet with them in their ongoing dispute over workers’ rights. A year ago, the Falluccas fired nearly 100 workers who were organizing to improve working conditions at the Palermo’s factory. More than 50 groups co-sponsored the March for a Slice of Justice.
The current U.S. process for reviewing incoming foreign investment is excessively narrow and needs to be both expanded and rethought. This is underscored by the current controversy over the proposed purchase of Smithfield Foods by a Chinese meat processing company.
