Author: Richard Eskow

Tensions between police departments and those they have sworn to protect have risen across the country recently, not just in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri. Protests over the lack of justice in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases have been taking place in numerous cities, including Nashville, Tennessee. The protests there were large, at one point even blocking part of the interstate, but were overwhelmingly peaceful and nonviolent. That protesters were mostly allowed to carry out their acts of civil disobedience without retaliation from police drew criticism from at least one of the city’s pro-police resident. “Instead...

Senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky has reportedly been described in several articles by large, credible sources as a linchpin figure in the CIA torture program. However, she was unidentified, but The Intercept has named her as being that instrumental figure in the CIA torture program. After being called a “key apologist,” “The Unidentified Queen of Torture,” noted as “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’” and identified in having a central role in lying to Congress about the CIA’s torture methods, Bikowsky appears to be the main liar. Last week, according to The Intercept, “NBC...

Enbridge Inc. reported yesterday that the Line 4 pipeline at the Regina Terminal in Saskatchewan, Canada had been “shut down and isolated” after it spilled over 1,300 barrels, approximately 56,700 gallons, of oil on Tuesday, Reuters reported. A spokesman for the company, Graham White, said in an email that the spill “originated at a flange or valve within the terminal, so there were no problems with the pipeline itself.” White said that could mean the problem would be “relatively” easy to fix, but had no set time frame for when the pipeline would resume operations. Canada’s National Energy Board...