Tuesday night Scott Olsen stood on a street in Oakland as an American citizen, exercising his right as specified in the First Amendment to the Constitution that he pledged his life to uphold as a US Marine. And Tuesday night, as he lawfully exercised the Constitutional right he risked his life to defend in Marine uniform, someone wearing the uniform of the Oakland PD, or the “law” enforcement agencies Oakland summoned up to squash lawful protest, fired the round that felled Scott Olsen.

Tuesday night the Oakland Police force, or their armed colleagues, fired into a crowd of unarmed American citizens at point-blank range. One of the weapons fired into those citizens struck US Marine and Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen in the face. Within minutes after that attack, Olsen was barely able

Yesterday MSNBC’s garbage recycling team picked up a piece from the National Journal’s Major Garrett to post as journalism.  Garrett was congressional reporter for Rev. Moon’s Washington Times in the 1990’s.  After a stint at CNN, by 2002 he’d slithered down the journalistic food chain to Rupert Murdoch and Roger

Today Dean Baker again comes to FDL bearing false witness about medical school expansion.  He falsely claims United Stated doctors….limit the supply of doctors domestically…by restricting medical school enrollment He prefaces this false statement with a valid observation Doctors in the United States have enormous political power. The American Medical

Why is the US Department of Justice locking away non-violent eco-activist prisoners in domestic GITMOS? Why did the US Government spend vast resources on a provocateur named Anna to set up prosecution of Eric McDavid? Eric was her lover, he along with another young man was arrested right after they stepped out of a hardware store with materials for a bomb making plot designed and instigated by the FBI’s paid informant and provocateur, Anna. At a time when we all know corporatist banksters have done trillions of damage to America’s economy and walked free, why was Eric McDavid sentenced to Federal prison for over twenty years on terrorism charges when he hadn’t actually destroyed anything? How did Marie Mason – an eco-activist who actually had carried out property destruction – come to be sentenced to over twenty years in prison on “terror” charges?

Kirk Murphy, Host:

Will Potter’s Green Is The New Red brings us front line reporting from a sustained war against our basic freedoms. The campaign targets our basic most basic freedoms – including the freedoms civil rights activists relied upon just over a generation ago in their successful struggle for civil rights. The campaign against our basic freedoms draws on nearly unlimited public resources, and uses these resources to attack democracy. The campaign follow strategies designed by some of the most destructive and effective servants of corporatist power. The foot soldiers in the campaign go to work with guns on their belts. The campaign’s chief beneficiaries go home from work with salaries that buy penthouses in Manhattan and vacation homes in Vail and the Hamptons. The people who pay for the campaign are you, and I, and every American taxpayer. The campaign is called the Green Scare.

Antonia Juhasz’ Black Tide drills into our past, our present, and all too possibly, our future. Black Tide gives us the chance to learn from Antonia’s years of expert work on the oil industry and the industry’s effects upon us all and the planet we all depend on. This book goes far beyond history and policy – the book draws on the months Antonia spent with Gulf Coast residents living with the consequences of the oil catastrophe BP and partners brought upon them and the Gulf one year and thirteen days ago. The result is a powerful, compelling work of non-fiction that reads like a novel. But unlike a novel, Black Tide brings us into the lives of real people, and Antonia brings them to us in their own words.

Kirk Murphy, Host:

Antonia Juhasz’ Black Tide drills into our past, our present, and all too possibly our future. Black Tide gives us the chance to learn from Antonia’s years of expert work on the oil industry and the industry’s effects upon us all and the planet we all depend on. This book goes far beyond history and policy – the book draws on the months Antonia spent with Gulf Coast residents living with the consequences of the oil catastrophe BP and partners brought upon them and the Gulf one year and thirteen days ago. The result is a powerful, compelling work of non-fiction that reads like a novel. Unlike a novel, Black Tide brings us into the lives of real people, and Antonia brings them to us in their own words.

Yesterday the spent fuel rod pool at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 4 caught fire. About that time instruments at the plant showed an exponential increase in radiation levels. After the fire was quenched, radiation levels fell. In the hour before I sat down to write this, there was an explosion at the same spent fuel rod pool. As I write, another fire is burning there. NHK reports the radiation level – 300 to 400 milliSieverts – is so high that firefighters cannot approach the area.

Update: Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, is holding a news conference, just started. (10:15pm ET). Yesterday the spent fuel rod pool at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 4 caught fire.  About that time instruments at the plant showed an exponential increase in radiation levels.  After the fire was quenched, radiation levels