Publisher Resigns After Suggesting Obama Assassination

Publisher Andrew Adler suggested Israel should assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama.

The publisher of the small newspaper the Atlanta Jewish Times has resigned after writing that Israel should consider assassinating President Obama. In a recent column, Andrew Adler wrote that Israel should potentially “take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel.” The Secret Service says it is investigating.


NYPD Commissioner Apologizes for Role in Anti-Muslim Documentary
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has apologized for his appearance in a documentary that says Muslim leaders and organizations in the United States are part of a plot for global jihad. An NYPD spokesperson had told reporters that he believed the footage of Kelly had come from another source, not from an interview with filmmakers. But on Wednesday, Kelly admitted he was interviewed for the movie, which is called, "The Third Jihad." The NYPD has also claimed the film was screened only to a small number of officers, but it was revealed this week it was in fact screened to more than 1,400. Groups including the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition are now calling for Kelly’s resignation. In related news, Commissioner Kelly’s son, Greg Kelly, a local television anchor, is being investigated by the Manhattan district attorney after he was accused of raping a woman last October in Lower Manhattan.


Indiana Lawmakers Pass Anti-Union Bill
Indiana’s Republican-controlled statehouse has approved a measure that would prohibit private sector workplaces from requiring workers to pay dues or other fees to join a union. The so-called "right to work" bill was passed over the opposition of Democratic lawmakers who had boycotted the State Assembly in a bid to deny Republicans quorum. Once enacted, Indiana will be the twenty-third state to adopt a "right to work" law. Opponents call the measure an attack on organized labor that will result in lower wages and diminished collective bargaining rights.


U.N.: Interim Libyan Govt Torturing Prisoners
The interim Libyan government is being accused of widespread torture in the aftermath of the ouster of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said investigators had uncovered scores of cases of abuse in Libyan prisons.

Navi Pillay: "The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) visited over 8,500 detainees in approximately 60 places of detention between March and December 2011. The majority of detainees are accused of being Gaddafi loyalist and include a large number of sub-saharan, African nationals. The lack of oversight by the central authority creates an environment conducive to torture and ill treatment. My staff have received alarming reports that this is happening in places of detention they have visited."


Occupy Protesters Rally at Davos World Economic Forum
The annual gathering of some of the world’s most powerful political and corporate figures is underway as Switzerland hosts the World Economic Forum in Davos. Scores of protesters have made the trip to protest corporate greed. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naido took part in a protest in Davos.

Kumi Naidoo: All of our democracies have been captured to a large extent in many, many countries by corporate power that, in fact, should corporations have a voice about public life? Yes. Should they have the level and depth of the voice that they have now? Absolutely not. And we need to put a leash. That’s the message of this campaign — on corporations for them to be more accountable, for them to be better global citizens.

Dozens of Occupy protesters have also set up an igloo encampment in the sub-zero temperatures near the summit.

Ed Sutton: They come together each year to makes these decisions with enormous consequences for the entire world and they don’t feel its necessary to consult with the vast majority of people who inhabit the world. There’s seven billion people on the planet who don’t have any kind of a say in what they are doing. And we just find that its personification of the fact that free market capitalism and democracy don’t really fit together and that’s the fundamental thrust of the Occupy movement in general."


People’s Movements Converge for World Social Forum in Brazil
As global elites gather in Davos, members of people’s movements from around the world have gathered in Brazil for the annual World Social Forum. The World Social Forum is held as a counterweight to Davos under the theme of "Another World Is Possible." This year’s meeting is being held in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul, the site of the first World Social Forum in 2001.


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