* Death Toll in Moscow Subway Bombing Rises to 39 * Michigan-based Christian Military Accused of Plotting War Against Federal Gov’t * Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Obama Assassination Plot * Penn. Man Arrested for Threat to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor * Ten Young Mexican Students Killed at Drug Cartel Checkpoint * Israel to Allow First Shipment of Clothes to Gaza in Nearly Three Years * Burmese Opposition Party to Boycott Elections * Lawsuit Filed over Secretive Prison Units * Tennessee and Delaware Awarded $600M in Race to the Top Program * EPA to Delay Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions * Fires Reported at Three Nuclear Power Plants * GOP Spent Nearly $2,000 in Party Funds at Bondage-Themed Nightclub * Details Emerge about 2002 Death in CIA Secret Prison * Postal Service Wants to End Saturday Mail Delivery
Rage on the Right: Christian Militia Raided in Michigan; Tennessee Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Obama Assassination Plot
The Justice Department has charged 9 members of a Michigan-based Christian militia group in connection with an alleged plot to spark a war against the federal government. Meanwhile a white power skinhead from Tennessee has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to carry out a killing spree targeting African Americans, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. We speak to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Our President Is Deceiving the American Public”: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower on President Obama and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
We are joined now by a man who played a major role in efforts to end the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became known as the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of US involvement in Vietnam. After avoiding a life sentence on espionage charges, Daniel Ellsberg has continued to speak out against U.S. militarism until the present day.