NATO and the new Cold War (tags)
In the period between 1999 and 2023, 14 states of the former Warsaw Pact were admitted to NATO in several stages: an increasing threat to the Russian Federation due to the ongoing shift of NATO's eastern borders to Russian territory. In 2018, Trump terminated the Arms Control Treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty & in 2020 the Open Skies Treaty.
Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? (tags)
The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs.
The Fascism Construction Manual (tags)
Immediately after the proclamation of this pandemic, many elements of absolute all-around totalitarianism were put into effect in most countries of the West, even in countries that had previously been robust democracies. All of this happened very quickly and comprehensively.
We need to put money into housing initiatives, addiction and violence prevention programs, community centers and mental health infrastructures - and in parallel, dismantle the police step by step. We need to develop alternative structures for how we deal with violence as a society.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
12 Step Programs Free Me From Addiction (tags)
My Name is Freedom
Step Up As LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Steps Down (tags)
Step Up As LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Steps Down
Treating Peace Process Delusional Disorder in Israel and Worldwide (tags)
It looks at the problem of peace process addiction and how to cure it.
Police problem officers (tags)
Many California counties already give prosecutors at least some information on problem officers, as do a majority of the 50 states. But “Blue” California remains the only state that blocks prosecutors from seeing entire police personnel files. And that’s a disgrace.
Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself (tags)
Only the left can save capitalism now. The exploding inequality undermines growth, democracy and the social contract.
Take a Step Back – Robert Tronge (tags)
I’m sure we’ve all heard the statement “walk a mile in his shoes”, but how many people are actually willing to step outside of their comfort zone and do this for a real. Most people are unwilling to see the other person’s point of view, especially when it violates their concept of right and wrong, whether that view of right or wrong is based on past experiences, ethnic, cultural, religious believes or outright bigotry.
Colombia Takes Another Step Towards Circus Animal Ban (tags)
May 14, 2013, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – TODAY, the Senate Commission V of Colombia amended and approved the draft law (Law 244/12) banning the use of animals in circuses, allowing Plenary to pass this initiative. The committee vote was seven in favor and none against.
Unconditional Basic Income is not a Wrong Way: Book Review (tags)
Every step at preventing poverty is also a step at strengthening consumer demand. Steps toward basic income can achieve that change of distribution demanded in the book.
The Roadmap for Peace in Mindanao, Philippines (tags)
The Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM), a national political party of the marginalized sectors, welcomes the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement as a roadmap for peace in Mindanao. The agreement is also the first step to end the centuries-old oppression of the Moro people in Mindanao.
PHILIPPINES: Akbayan calls on Sandiganbayan to issue warrant of arrest against Arroyo (tags)
Akbayan Chairperson Risa Hontiveros called on the Sandiganbayan today to issue a warrant of arrest against former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) in connection with the plunder charge filed against her and several others before the anti-graft court by the Office of the ombudsman.
State Appellate Court overturns conviction in 1992 Lake County murder (tags)
The court upbraided police for how they obtained a confession from Rivera, saying veteran detectives used leading questions and likely fed Rivera information. The court also said detectives psychologically manipulated the fragile Rivera
Smiley and West Buoy the 99 % at Occupy LA Rally (tags)
Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley address the folks at Occupy LA.
ICEF Crooks to get gobbled up by competing Corporate Charter Chain (tags)
The corporate model charter schools follow makes for some interesting aftermath. They are now beginning to monopolize by swallowing each other up. If charters were the first step towards privatization, this is the first step towards the Wall-Martization of education.
Is the LA Arts District being slapped in the face by Paul Solomon? (tags)
Developer Paul Solomon trying to rezone an existing AIR buildings back into warehouse...
Strengthening US Defenses in Gulf as a Step Toward War (tags)
Strengthening US Defenses in Gulf as a Step Toward War
Youth Organize Worldwide Human Rights Walk (tags)
Youth from every corner of the globe will walk in our first ever “International Walk for Human Rights,” on United Nations Human Rights Day, December 10, 2009.
US Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s Three-Day Fact-Finding Mission in Honduras (tags)
"Schakowsky’s three day visit from November 10-12 included meetings with family members of victims that have died directly from violence from the coup, media outlets such as Channel 36 and Radio Globo that have been attacked for honestly reporting on the resistance movement, and also a visit to the Brazilian Embassy where ousted President Zelaya and approximately 40 others have taken refuge for the last 53 days. The Chicago Congresswoman commented on her opportunity to hear a recording of some of the sounds bombarded into the Embassy and see the blinding lights set up outside, in addition to the crane set up for the military to spy into the Embassy."
UNION BUSTING Play Book: What Union Busters Don't Want YOU to See or Know! (tags)
A Step by Step Union Busting Playbook on What UNION BUSTERS Do and How They Run UNION BUSTING Campaigns.
The Reaction Will Be Televised (tags)
If you want to stop their Beckistas, unplug their televisions.
You don’t want to pay for the crisis of capital? Then just don’t do it. (tags)
A critique of the calls for demonstrations against the G20 in Berlin, Frankfurt and London under the slogan “We won't pay for your crisis! – For a solidarity society”
*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY (tags)
*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY FEB 14th, 2009: MASS DAY OF ACCOUNT CLOSURES STOP ALL EVICTIONS AND FORECLOSURES! STOP FINANCING COAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE! Contact: valentinesday@risingtideboston.org This Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2009, join Rising Tide Boston (RTB) in demanding that Bank of America stop its funding of the dirty and deadly coal industry and demanding, in solidarity with City Life/Vide Urbana, that the Bank stop its unjust foreclosures and evictions of working families. Closing your account with Bank of America (BOA) is an important step in bringing closure to this unhealthy relationship. In Boston, we are planning a day of coordinated bank account closures in at least two locations, and encourage people in other places to organize something similar.
the Visionary Report (inaugural post) (tags)
This is *the* inauguration of "the visionary report", a report whose author(s) wish to inspire people, in a regularly appearing way, beyond the same old again and towards evolutionary meaning and living in this world.
Stop Rape: Breaking the Silence and The UCLA Clothesline Project (tags)
The UCLA Clothesline Project is a student organization that aims to stop sexual violence. The project strives to take that first most difficult step: to break the silence surrounding sexual violence and raise awareness about a crime where it’s the victims that are made to feel guilty and ashamed.
May Day March & United Rally for Immigrant Rights (tags)
Join pro-immigrant organizations at a May 1 march and mass rally in downtown Los Angeles to demand full rights for immigrants. The April 7 Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, of which ANSWER is a member, is part of a united front of all major immigrant rights organizations on May 1. There will be two marches that will unite for a mass rally in downtown Los Angeles that day. One will march from downtown and the other from MacArthur Park. Both will step off at 2 pm. This united day of action is an important step for the immigrant rights movement.
Review of a book by National Anarchist thinker Troy Southgate.
Bush's Technique: Do Illegalities First,The Pardon or Give Immunity! (tags)
The US Congress and Senate has gone along with and approved of this Presidential "Immunity" every step of the way!
War with Iran : the Correct Political Perspective (tags)
Because of the bitterly partisan and rivalrous degeneration of the American political situation, which is the driving force behind the destruction of the Constitution among other things, I must ask readers to see if it might be possible to hear a person out when there position disagrees with your position, so that perhaps you might even have a chance to consider an issue thoughtfully before making up your mind, which would be a new development in American politics, and might even save the country from further turns towards Caesar, supported by many because of the onrushing disaster.
Today's commemoration and kickoff to the May 1 boycott against immigration raids and deportations began today, under the shadow of ICE
Gov's health plan good step, but universal coverage doomed, say Greens (tags)
Governor's health plan step in right direction, but universal coverage doomed because politicos too ‘in debt' to powerful special interests, says Green Party of California.
China requires high court OK for death sentences (tags)
American continues to be a bigger, meaner, and eviler police state. China at least takes a step in the right direction
Mexico’s Lower House of Congress has called on Ulises Ruiz to step down from office.
Right/Left Complicit in Perpetuation of War (tags)
How? Never exposing the reigning bigoted assumptions of the privileged and resulting meta policies against we, the "stupid" masses, for one. Article quotes from Noam Chomsky and the little known Christopher Simpson, author of Science of Coercion.
Call to phone CSPAN and demand that they reverse last-minute decision to not broadcast Feb 4 protests.
Protest: Bush Step Down in Hollywood (tags)
Photos: Protest: Bush Step Down in Hollywood, January 31, 2006
Report on Bush Step Down in LA (tags)
Preliminary repost
Bike Contingency at Bush Step Down Rally (tags)
Bike Contingency at Bush Step Down Rally Tuesday, January 31st, 5:30 PM
Peace Walk, Jan. 22, Santa Monica (tags)
There will be a meditative Peace Walk in Santa Monica on January 22nd. This is a spiritual practice to generate "Peace in Oneself; Peace in the World".
The World Can’t Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime (tags)
Today, The World Can’t Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime organization placed a full page ad in The New York Times calling for George Bush to step down from office, and take his program with him. Similar calls for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney have appeared, but this is the first time an organization has run an ad in a national media outlet calling for the removal of the entire Bush regime and their program from power.
Antonio Villaraigosa has won the election, but can he fix all of our problems? Villaraigosa is indeed progressive, and is also a step in the correct direction.
The Myth of the Fiscal Crisis (tags)
The first step that must be taken if we are to reverse the cuts and prevent the destruction of the New Deal’s gains is to understand in our own minds that there is no fiscal crisis.
a strong wind
Bush tries to make cheap political capital out of the Shiavo tragedy, but fails to act.
Democracy behind Tank Barricades (tags)
For Washington the elections in Iraq are a milestone on the way to freedom but for Iraqis they are another step into civil war.. Almost nothing has the same meaning for Iraqis and Americans..There is hardly a com-mon interest between liberator & liberated.
"CREATORS" SYNDICATE PROMOTES THOMAS SOWELL'S ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY (tags)
Feeling Rios' Sacramento/San Joaquin Flood Pulse (tags)
Poem about Sacramento River (or other) salmon run blocked by dams, potential for valley permaculture, free flowing salmon supporting rivers, and independence from petroleum based fertilizer/pesticides..
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Close the School of Americas Walk For World Peace - Join the 5th Annual Peace Pilgrimage Atlanta to Fort Benning, GA - November 13-21, 2004
the literary digest resistance is the secret of joy CODEX and the FDA: Globa (tags)
UN’s Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods For Special Dietary Uses. what is it? the U. S. FDA is working hard on it. Bush supports it. it seems weird.
Wild Oats fires union organizer-- the next step (tags)
Discover what we learned from unhappy Wild Oats employees.
The Day Philosophy Dies (tags)
“Step One is to recognize that there is a problem.” When a movie star is kidnapped and put through a 12 step recovery program for addiction to Western Civilization, reality gets turned on its ear. The fugitives careen headlong through passion, betrayal, and assassinations toward an explosive event that will transform the world. Everything you know can change in an instant. Are you ready for the next step?
Chavez: the FTAA is dead (tags)
Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, expressed again that US project of completing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is definitely dead. This time, the Venezuelan president made this balance at his arrival to Puerto Iguazu, in Misiones, Argentina, where he will participate on the Summit of MERCOSUR presidents.
Annulling Debts as a Great Step (tags)
"The goal must be redefined beyond goods production and abstract labor, beyond the market and the state.. The great step of debt cancellation occurs when the burden can no longer be endured. The new finance capita-lism is a bubble and debt capitalism.."
You can trust corporations to Cheat, Lie and Steal (tags)
There's a negative correlation between executive pay and common sense -- the higher the compensation, the greater the temptation to think you're the smartest guy in the room.
Bored With Third Party Politics (tags)
Where Our Focus Should Lie
Another Bloody Gaza Day (tags)
The murder of a pregnant Israeli settler and her four children by extremists has torpedoed a Palestinian state once again.
Governator cuts Education and Parole (tags)
In a really weird twist of politics, did Arnie do something right?
Post Office Wants To ID All Mail Senders (tags)
Another sign of creeping fascism/totalitarianism. "We just need to know who is sending this - it's for your own good. Now shut up and show me your State Approved I.D. Papers."
To Governor Davis: Please resign (tags)
Email Davis: As a loyal democrat I'm asking that you resign.
Legislation to Expel Iranians (tags)
Congressman Introduces Legislation to Expel Iranian Visitors and Students from the U.S.
CENTRAL VALLEY INDYMEDIA CENTER (tags)
An Indymedia center for the Central Valley in California came one step closer to reality at a meeting held last night in Modesto.
This is just the latest and most egregious step in a fear campaign designed to prepare Americans to do whatever the administration wants us to do.
"Being a libertarian may be a step in the direction of conservatism, but being a Libertarian puts me in the pocket of people out to kill me."
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism (tags)
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
http://peacetool.8k.com Mitigate harassment of the peace movement by slowing down freeper HQ.
Strike Back Against Media Concentration and the FCC! (tags)
TIME SENSITIVE! Announcement of how to enter comments into FCC public record for current review of Media Ownership Rules.
Strike Back Against Media Concentration! (tags)
TIME SENSITIVE! Announcement of how to enter comments into FCC public record for current review of Media Ownership Rules.
U R God- whether or not you want to believe it (tags)
just so you know
Museums as Alt. Media: on Anarchist Radio News (tags)
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How to start a Marijuana political party in your state (tags)
Step by step instructions about how to restore your rights by creating a political party in your state
"The Overthrow Of The American Government, Part 2" (tags)
Let a candid and vigilant populace consider my pleas and contentions. We ordinary Americans are being led, step by step, down the road to a dictatorship more evil and all-pervasive than that of the late Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party of the German aristocracy.
call to : WHIRL-MART ANTISHOPPING !ART/ACTION?....JUNE 3! (tags)
On April 1, 2001, breathingplanet.net successfully activated its first action-performance, Whirl-Mart. It was a silent march winding through the aisles of Wal-Mart in Troy, NY, that was symbolic of the group's opposition to violent capitalist values. It was not necessarily a protest against Wal-Mart. Now breathingplanet.net is calling for simultaneous Whirl-Mart action-performances across the country and/or globe on Sunday June 3 and the first Sunday of every month following.
The Iron Heel: Essential Reading for Coup Watchers (tags)
Jack London wrote this book in 1907. It is the most terrfyin i ever read.