The decision by Lowe’s, behemoth chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores, to pull its advertising from TLC’s reality TV show “All-American Muslim,” ceded to the bigotry, fear-mongering and paranoia of a deluded minority whose divisive ideology poisons America’s cherished history of inclusiveness and pluralism. But in doing so, Lowe’s unwittingly inspired a sudden [...]
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December 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
Attendants want ’30 Rock’ off flights
(CNN) — The NBC sitcom “30 Rock” lost some flight attendant fans after actor Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight when he refused to turn off his phone. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants requested Tuesday that the airline remove the show from all flights after last week’s incident at Los Angeles [...]
December 13, 2011
Row over Muslim reality TV show
12 December 2011 Last updated at 18:46 GMT The Amen family of Dearborn includes a fiance who is converting from Catholicism Home improvement retailer Lowe’s is facing criticism after removing advertising from a reality TV show showcasing American Muslims. The company pulled ads from All-American Muslim after complaints from the Florida Family Association. The cable [...]
December 12, 2011
David Montgomery obituary
David Montgomery, who has died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage, was one of the most prominent historians in the US and the model of a scholar-activist. Along with the late Herbert Gutman, he was the most influential practitioner of the “new labour history“, which moved the study of workers away from the institutional history [...]
December 12, 2011
The Americans occupying the London Stock Exchange
12 December 2011 Last updated at 00:38 GMT By Rema Rahman BBC News The Corporation of London has issued some protesters with eviction orders The Occupy London Stock Exchange camp is now 59 days old – the same age as the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park was when it was taken down. The [...]
December 10, 2011
Pulitzer prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas thrown out of Romney campaign event
A journalist who gained fame earlier this year after publicly declaring he is an illegal immigrant was ejected today from a Mitt Romney rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter, had been holding up a sign saying “I am an American w/o papers”. Vargas, who was part of a [...]
December 10, 2011
Video Shows US Hostage Alive One Year Ago
Four years ago, American Bob Levinson disappeared mysteriously in Iran. Now, the family of the retired FBI agent has released a video it received in late 2010, showing him to be alive. The video was not released earlier, because federal officials thought it would complicate their investigation. “Please help me get home.” Bob Levinson pleads [...]
December 9, 2011
Hillary Clinton’s world tour brings brickbats, but more bouquets
Hillary Clinton knows it’s been a good tour when the US secretary of state’s critics deride her as a “radical scold” trying to turn the world into gay-friendly San Francisco. Or claims that she is wrong to meet Burma‘s “military thugs” as the US presses for continued political reform in that long closed country. Then [...]
December 8, 2011
American gets 2.5 years for insulting Thai monarchy
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai criminal court has sentenced a Thai-born American to 2 1/2 years in prison for insulting the monarchy, the latest case involving controversial laws for defaming, insulting or threatening the royal family. Joe W. Gordon, whose Thai name is Lerpong Wichaicommart, cooperated during the investigation of his case and pleaded [...]
December 8, 2011
Baldwin’s Twitter account offline
8 December 2011 Last updated at 12:50 GMT Mr Baldwin’s final tweet was a link to a YouTube video of a classical concert The Twitter account of the Hollywood and TV actor, Alec Baldwin, has been deactivated. Mr Baldwin had been a prolific tweeter and made headlines this week after writing that he had been [...]
December 7, 2011
Alec Baldwin removed from plane for playing with his phone
Alec Baldwin says he was kicked off a plane on Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport after having words with a flight attendant over an “addicting” word game he was playing on his cellphone. The 30 Rock actor was asked to get off a New York City-bound flight for playing Words with Friends while the [...]
December 7, 2011
Game addiction costs Alec Baldwin his airline seat
Los Angeles (CNN) — Alec Baldwin’s addiction to the cell phone game “Words with Friends” got him booted from an American Airlines plane parked at a Los Angeles International Airport gate Tuesday afternoon, the actor’s spokesman said. “He loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it, but he has [...]
December 5, 2011
U.S. Tightens Its Security in Baghdad
December 5, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis U.S. Tightens Its Security in Baghdad 05 Dec 2011 The American Embassy in Baghdad has placed sharp new restrictions on how government workers can travel inside the walled-off International Zone, citing serious threats of kidnapping and terrorist attacks across Iraq and near the embassy’s own doorstep. In a statement [...]
December 3, 2011
NY Opera talks end in stalemate
2 December 2011 Last updated at 11:24 GMT The NYCO says it needs to cut its performers’ pay to save it from financial ruin. The New York City Opera (NYCO) has declared a stalemate with unions in contract talks over pay and conditions. The company threatened to present its forthcoming season without its regular musicians, [...]