Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/18

How about a test of your injustice barometer? You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or self-restraint of their power over Washington. Forget it. They're baaack! Their greed and power are revving up big time to bring Washington and you the taxpayer, you the parent, you the consumer, you the worker, to your knees. Here is a sample of the appalling dynamics of corporate greed and continuing over-reach each day in your nation's capital.

Link: http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/no-impunity-for-torturers-groups-urge/

Human rights advocates were quick to praise President Barack Obama for Thursday’s release of the infamous “torture memos” used by the Bush-era Justice Department to justify cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of war-on-terror prisoners. However, they appear unanimously critical of the president’s decision not to prosecute the Central Intelligence Agency operatives who used these techniques.

Link: http://www.openleft.com/diary/12890/tom-delay-on-texas-secessionmore-bull-than-gov-perry-ever-dreamed-of

Obama: In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m53530&hd=&size=1&l=e

One day after the Obama administration released four gruesome Bush-era legal opinions that described in shocking detail the torturous methods CIA interrogators were permitted to use to extract information from alleged "high-value" detainees, a majority of Democrats have remained collectively silent on whether the disclosures warrant a full-scale criminal investigation.

Link: http://funpresident.com/2009/04/mass-farmer-suicide-in-india/

More than 1,500 Indian farmers committed suicide after being pushed into debt through crop failures. The reason for the crop failures have been blamed on falling water irrigation levels, climate change and the increasing globalization of water rights. “The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago,” Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine.

Link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=92ca209f-2ed7-4be6-8b4e-da76f9bb49af&Headline=Schoolgirl+died+of+prolonged+standing%3a+report

Although the police were awaiting for the autopsy report of Shanno Khan (11) to initiate action against the teacher, the medical report of the child accessed by Hindustan Times says she died due to “prolonged standing”.