Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25344.htm

The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday. Harold Koh, the State Department’s top legal adviser, outlined the administration’s legal case for the robotic attacks last month. Now, some legal experts are taking turns to punch holes in Koh’s argument.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/rich-a29.shtml

The list exposes the Brown government’s claims that its multibillion-pound bail-out of Britain’s banks was taken to ensure the economic well-being of working people. Under conditions in which all the official parties are insisting that working people must sacrifice jobs, wages and public provision to slash Britain’s £167 billion deficit, the Sunday Times reveals that the super-rich have enjoyed the largest rise in their wealth since it first began publishing the list 21 years ago.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/oilr-a29.shtml

An oil spill caused by last week’s deadly explosion on a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading toward the coast of Louisiana, threatening fisheries, beaches and numerous species. The April 20 explosion on the BP-contracted rig, Deepwater Horizon, took the lives of 11 workers and critically injured four more. It was caused by a blowback when a mud sealant applied to the drill hole on the seabed likely failed to seal. Oil then forced its way up the drill bore blowing apart machinery and igniting a fire that lasted two days, eventually collapsing the rig, which was operating in 5,000 feet of water. Contrary to early speculation, piping at the drill hole on the seabed has not been resealed. When the rig sunk, the pipe buckled into a heap above the ocean floor, rupturing at more than one point. This means that a steady stream of crude oil, estimated at 1,000 barrels or 42,000 gallons per day, is rising to the surface.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/29/gulf-oil-spill-larger-estimated

US coastguard says 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spewing from a well beneath site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion... Five times more oil a day than previously believed is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the blown-out well of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the US coastguard has said.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/macy-clinton-niece-of-bil_n_555043.html

Macy Clinton, 18, the daughter of Bill Clinton's brother Roger, tells "Inside Edition" she needs government assistance to eat. "It's hard because I'm a Clinton too, but I have to be on food stamps just to try to make it day by day," she said in the interview. Isn't Bill Clinton a multimillionaire with all kinds of connections?

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51243

"The fifth time I tried to get to the United States I left Guatemala, crossed the border into Mexico, and on a bus I was assaulted by five police officers," Guatemalan migrant José Donis said Wednesday.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/04/201042914052857162.html

The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece's debt crisis could spread and threaten the economies of other countries. Dominique Strauss-Kahn made the comments in Berlin on Wednesday as he tried to persuade Germany, Europe's biggest economy, to back the terms of a multi-billion dollar rescue package.