Obituary for Russiagate (tags)
What are the consequences of the Russiagate scam? If it rested on lies start-to-finish, this is not to say it did not exact its price. It did. The price is high, and we are fated to pay it for some time to come.
The US's Public Housing Crisis May Worsen With Trump Budget (tags)
As of 2016, fully 90 percent of the nation's public housing households were headed by someone who is elderly, has disabilities, worked (or had recently worked) or was subject to work requirements through another program. Many are dependent on public housing...
Video: Lawrence Lessig on "Republic, Lost; How Money Corrupts Congress" (tags)
Dependence on funders instead of the people is dangerous. The problem is the system, not the republicans. We've become incapable of addressing global warming, health care etc. Crisis is an opportunity to do something, getting a government that is responsible.
FREE INTERNET BOOK: "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig (tags)
In his free 352-page Internet book "Free Culture: How Big Media used technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity," Lawrence Lessing discusses the future of ideas, the fate of the commons in a connected world. This book was published by Penguin Press, New York in 2004.
VIDEO: How to Get Our Democracy Back (tags)
"At the center of our government lies a bankrupt institution: Congress."
Interview with Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell) (tags)
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson discusses illegal detainment and torture tactics used at GITMO in this excellent interview as well as how intel was manipulated to get US into the Iraq quagmire
Lessig Leaves LiveJournal Under Cloud of Libel (tags)
Harvard's Lawrence Lessig has left LiveJournal's advisory board over disputes regarding their pro-libel and pro-defamation policies.
Scientology Cult Exposes Foreign Workers to Deadly Carcinogen (tags)
The Scientology cult is once again to blame for an act of callous disregard for worker safety; indeed, for workers’ very lives. Once again, the scandal involves the cult’s 440 foot luxury ocean liner “Freewinds.” In this case, we have obtained some new and very disturbing information about the cult’s efforts to keep secret the extent to which their ship was contaminated with highly carcinogenic blue asbestos.
Diabolus ex Machina: The Convenient Reappearance of Osama bin Laden (tags)
…from WTVD-TV (ABC News, Raleigh/Durham, NC): “A Duke professor says he is doubtful about Thursday's audiotape from Osama bin Laden. Bruce Lawrence has just published ‘Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden,’ a book translating bin Laden’s writing. He is skeptical of Thursday’s message. ‘It was like a voice from the grave,’ Lawrence said.”
A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management (tags)
Over the past several decades students and faculty of the University of California, often in tandem with nuclear disarmament NGOs in California and New Mexico, have conducted a series of campaigns to end the UC's involvement in nuclear weapons research, design, testing, and production at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. These campaigns represent an important contribution to the global nuclear abolition movement, which historian Lawrence Wittner has described as "the largest, most dynamic international citizens' movement of modern times."
Lessons of `Lawrence of Arabia' (tags)
"Bush #43, what he has done to us and the world, embodies the putrefication of everything good that has ever symbolized America. In the name of Jesus, no less.."
Sirhan Sirhan Is Innocent! (tags)
Reporting on a recent speech by Sirhan Sirhan Lawyer, Lawrence Teeter, in Los Angeles.
Indians are not anti-business. Casinos are proof of that. But most native people I know do oppose unnecessary destruction of soils and wetlands.
A Mugging At Albertsons - Albertsons Admits Wrongdoing's! (tags)
Long Known For It's Abuse Of Oaklanders, Albertsons Admits To Wrong Doing At It's E. Oakland Store After Receiving Complaints & Attention!
Lawrence v. Texas Milestone for Humanity (tags)
Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court decision of June 26, 2003, legalizing homosexuality in the United States, is as much a milestone for the gay and lesbian community as Roe v. Wade of 1973, legalizing the right to abortion, was for women, and both are for humanity.
RFK Assassination: Lawrence Teeter Talk on Sirhan Sirhan (tags)
~1 hr mp3 of talk reviewing basics of the RFK case
The University of California is complicit in the design and development of weapons of mass destruction. UCLA professors are doing research for the warfare state.
North American Anarchist Gathering 2002 - June 6-9 - Lawrence, Kansas (tags)
The north american anarchist gathering for 2002 will be held at Lawrence Kansas. This is the schedule of events for the gathering and some contact/registration info. the website is at: http://www.prague-index.org/naag/