California has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk over the racist treatment of Tesla employees.. Musk and US Govt in coup to oust socialist Pres. Morales and steal Bolivian lithium and other news re Musk
A police state USA, unfettered by moral / legal constraints (tags)
This report summarizes how the police state evolved in the USA and suggests the need to STOP IT!
Group Think, A Reduction Of The Human Faculty (tags)
My statements on the corruption of man and society follow.
Philippine Labor Party demands turnover of US Marine suspect in transgender killing (tags)
Partido Manggagawa (PM) [Labor Party - Philippines] condemns the killing of transgender woman, Jeffrey Serdoncillo Laude a.k.a. Jennifer Laude, allegedly by a US Marine participating in the Balikatan exercise in Olongapo City 11p.m. of October 11.
Jewish Voice for Peace= Jewish voice for Hamas? (tags)
Written by Yitzhak Santis. Exposing the extremist, pro-terror agenda of Jewish voice for peace
Ingo Schulze: Ten Theses about the Crisis (tags)
It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Here he sets out ten reasons to take himself seriously again
Will You Let Obama And Hagel Drag You Into Another War? (tags)
Stop Obama from involving us in another criminally stupid and illegal war It's time to impeach or force the resignation of all those in our government who are puppets of the Netanyahu agenda.
VENICE FILMFEST 2012: AN AMERICAN GRAFFITI (tags)
American films, largely absent in recent years, made a startling comeback to the 69th Venice Film Festival this month with a vivisection of an American society whose moral restraints have become as elastic as a worn rubber band, a malaise which, like American culture, has infected many parts of the world.
OpineRegress: Matthew Yglesias' reactionary education policy pandering (tags)
I've been following the exchange regarding education policy between Rachel Levy and Matthew Ygelsias online. Ygelsias is a well known supporter of reactionary corporate education reform, despite his reputation of progressive politics. In this essay we examine those contradictions and offer some possible reasons for Ygelsias' intransigence.
Santander Bank suspends funding for controversial Brazilian dam (tags)
Europe?s largest bank, Santander, has suspended its funding for Brazil?s hugely controversial Santo Antonio dam, citing environmental and social concerns.
The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange (tags)
“Feminist opinion—as the Assange case and the Polanski affair before it have demonstrated—has become one of the means of legitimizing the suppression of nonconformists and political dissidents, and of changing the subject from the great social issues, above all, class oppression and social inequality, to stale and self-pitying concerns. Those supervising the attack against Assange are no doubt congratulating themselves on its clever design. Mounting it in the guise of a campaign against the sexual molestation of women… how else could such a filthy operation, with its threat of a sweeping assault on democratic rights, be mounted and even legitimized today? The powers that be know the Pollitts of this world, and the Nation. The magazine’s editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is, after all, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading ruling class think tank whose membership has included numerous CIA directors, along with dozens of US generals and admirals.”
US Congress Represents Fellow Millionaires (tags)
Democratic Representative of San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, claims assets of $60 million, with her home and vineyard worth about $15 million. Her investments include AT&T, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Aloca, Apple, Dow Chemical and Motorola, among others. No millionaire can possibly represent the workingclass, the 80% of us who sell our labor for less than $77,000 a year. Almost half of the US Congress are millionaires.
CORPORATE MEDIA IS COMING TO HOME (tags)
Capital’s most severe crisis in seventy years ought to be a moment of significant opportunity for the left. But as the right mobilizes disgruntled Americans via its vast radio, television, web, and print empires, the one mass medium available to the left is driving out its best and brightest.
Flying the flag, faking the news (tags)
Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain
Venezuela: The error of being Lusbi Portillo (tags)
* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.
Tarp Stimulus Banker Johns Save by Writing Off Kristin Davis Hookers (tags)
Some things never change.
Eric McDavid - Update and Writing from Eric (tags)
Update on Eric and writing from him
Peace poem
Journey to Beit Harun, After the Rain of Death (tags)
This is Islam al-Atamna. A girl of 14. She is sitting in her black mourning clothes. Eight close relatives - including her mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts - were all killed before her eyes, one after the other. They were killed in the street after they awoke at home in horror at the sound of the first shell that exploded and then fled outdoors, where the next shells caught them. About 11 fell on a residential neighborhood, one shell a minute, a rain of death, pursuing them in their flight. Fatherless for some time already, the girl is left alone in the world with her two little sisters and her 3-year-old brother Abdullah, whose legs were severed and who is hospitalized in the Al-Hilal Hospital in Gaza.
Hizbullah, Zionism and the Ideology of late Imperial America (tags)
Awakening the Resistance
Download Song Commemorating Rachel Corrie (tags)
British folk singer Billy Bragg has released a FREE mp3 song dedicated to American hero/peace activist, Rachel Corrie... here's what Bragg said about his song: "Rachel Corrie went to Gaza to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians, whose voice is seldom heard in her country, the US. That she herself should be silenced - first by an Israeli bulldozer, next by a New York theatre canceling a play created from her words - is a testimony to the power of her message. This song was written on a plane on March 20 and recorded at Big Sky Recordings, Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 22. The tune is borrowed from Bob Dylan."
a post-'normal' booke review: chellis glendinning on recovery from western civilization (tags)
this review employs two main elements: orthodox "texting" and as well, permitting myself to art into another direction than perhaps previously anticipated. incorporated into this post is image, non-blunt points, rectangles, and other lines, along with 'marginal' commentary. All of this certainly cuts down on the verbiage and gets to "the point" (and allows for more broad input from those whose spirit just really ain't oriented to 'composing' formal ideas of text, re: "book reviews"). Lastly, this way allows people to leave *traces* of their spirit in a less mediated way.
SAT 11/12 NOON: Peace Procession Led by Families of Soldiers Killed in Iraq (tags)
Peace Procession Led by California Contingent of Gold Star Families Carrying Large Photos of Loved-Ones and Joined by Iraq Vets and Veterans For Peace Including Famed Vietnam Vet Ron Kovic Followed by 400 Pallbearers Carrying 100 Flag-Draped Mock Coffins
What Country Was He Tallking About? (tags)
Anti-democratic? Fear-mongering? Socially divisive? Unable to accept blame for his errors? Are we talking about Hugo Chavez or George Bush?
Cindy Sheehan: Is Iraq War Another Vietnam? (tags)
On a sidewalk in front of the White House, on Oct. 26, 2005, anti-war activists, Cindy Sheehan, John Bruhns and Juan M. Torres, Sr., and others from groups, like “Veterans for Peace,” gathered at a Vigil to protest the conflict. The toll of U.S. military dead had just reached the grim 2,000 mark. Sheehan predicted the war will be another Vietnam, unless the people can bring it to an end.
Katrina's Silver Lining (tags)
The costs for the American public, in higher energy costs, higher food bills, economic recession and a burst housing bubble, are the just deserts of decades of self-centered voting habits.
CO-FOUNDER OF FRANCE'S GREEN PARTY EXPELLED FOR ANTI-SEMITISM AND NEGATIONISM (tags)
A co-founder of France's Green Party in 1984, Ginette Skandrani, has been expelled after a trial by the party's regional administrative committee in the Ile de France region, which includes Paris and its suburbs, after formal complaints were filed against her, the center-left Parisian daily Liberation reported today -- under the headline, "A Green Too Brown for Her Party".
Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Memo (tags)
by MFSO (No verified email address) 14 Jun 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2005 Contact: Cindy Sheehan 707-365-7750 Celeste Zappala 215-570-5484 Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Minutes (memo), Members to Visit Congress
Canto del Rio Bravo / Song of the Rio Grande (tags)
"When history sleeps it speaks in dreams; on the forehead of the sleeping people the poem is a constellation of blood. When history wakes image becomes act, the poem happens; poetry moves into action."
Former Nazi Youth Elected Pope (tags)
This is some background information on John Ratzinger.
George Bush is a murderer! (tags)
Lizard loyalist GW Bush and skull and bones homo erect this, is a terrorist and should be shot on site going by the laws and edicts written up since his 911 mass a cure...
The American Worker State (tags)
America for the Americans!
The 10 best writers on the net (tags)
Get the best news on the net, its real and you won't find it in main stream sources.
How must a mother feel ? (tags)
A mother deprived to recognize his returned son. How must a father feel whose son died on a dirty dishonest policy?
High-Tech Vote Means a Third-World Election (tags)
Get set for a wild ride when the polling booths close. With no paper record for 25 percent of the votes cast this year, the chances for a corrupted election are overwhelming.
The Daily Poetry Movement (tags)
The fine was levied. But such a fine can not undo the actions taken, can not end the misery, can not prevent the US having paid over $1.5 million dollars a day for the massacres. I worked hard, I barely paid my bills, everywhere I went they took extra, a percentage for their corporations to kill, and my water turned off. upRising!
Conservatives, liberals and blacks (tags)
Need Housing During The DNC? (tags)
The Bl(a)ck Tea Society will coordinate housing for people who were unable to find housing on our forums or whose plans have fallen through or changed.
Former Diplomats, Retired Military Leaders to Call for Bush Ouster (tags)
Among the group are 20 ambassadors, appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents, other former State Department officials and military leaders whose careers span three decades.
Cannibal: Song of American Cannibalism (tags)
song
In 2003, the cost of the war was put at $50 billion and now it is $160 billion and rising -- and this is an unprovoked war of choice.
Marchers Protesting Elimination of Police Overtime Pay Brutalized by Police (tags)
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MLK - His Truth Lives Today! (tags)
"It must be dark in order to see the stars." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Brother King... it is dark, darker than it has ever been. But the light shines within us... we WILL carry on, and one day we'll make your dream come true.
The New America- Darth VAder or Frankenstein's Monster? ( Part 2 Of 2) (tags)
Using unusual personal experience and studied general observation to denote the horrific transformation of America, via mass-conditioning, pop-culture media programming, the military, and of course the legislature and police to train and harvest the slaves to serve the New World Mafia's black market profits and control.
Whose Police? Our Police! (tags)
"Whose fucking police? Our fucking police!" chant Philly ACT UP. “The people who chant this will never be creative. The people, bad slogans, will always be defeated.” New twists on tired slogans, new tactics such as coming as protesting the protest...for fun!
President Bush explains why other nations will be barred from getting the contracts to rebuild the mess we made
"Election Guardians Meeting" - Cabazon, CA (tags)
Election Guardians is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to restore and institutionalize a voting system that is free of fraud and manipulation.
Shielded from the reality of war -- the dead, the horribly maimed, the uranium poisoned, the psychologically devastated -- we are given a sanitized fantasy of war that shields Bush from the political consequences of this bloody, unnecessary war.
Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony (tags)
As of yesterday on CounterPunch at: http://www.counterpunch.org/said09252003.html there is a 13-page Said excerpt from the book ‘The Politics of Anti-Semitism’, from which further extracts below: --------------------------------------------------------
Politically Correct Racism (tags)
"All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. West European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene.”
Opinion: who says progressive activists are a mish-mash? (tags)
Progressive activists and supporters have one clear, complete agenda: Trust The People. All power to ordinary folks. This is a massive contrast with the republican slogan of “Distrust the people, trust only a tiny elite, all powers to a tiny elite.”
The Time for Nonviolence Has Come (tags)
As Robert Muller has said, there is not one superpower in the world today, but two: the militarized United States on the one hand, and the millions of ordinary people, including many Americans, who yearn to devote their energies to a humane future. Which will win?
Introduction to a bastard's manifesto (tags)
An analysis of identity politics and the role it can play in transforming America into a more progressive, democratic society.
Why keep Americans guessing about 9/11? (tags)
Even the arbiter of the "Mainstream" Presstitutes are beginning to have to old their nose and ask: What's that smell?
Airwaves abuzz with Hollywood blacklist; no secrets this time (tags)
"Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, whose anti-war comments got a Baseball Hall of Fame event in honor of Bull Durham's 15th anniversary canceled. And please don't forget the Dixie Chicks. All of a sudden, making contrary or outre political comments isn't only not OK, it's a punishable offense."
Whose Disaster? OUR Disaster! (tags)
Operation Topoff - to take place in Seattle and Chicago, Mon, May 12, is designed to test the readiness of our emergency systems to meet a terrorist attack - and possibly to test the docility and credulity of the populace.
War brings out the Purple People (tags)
These are the people who hate big government budgets and world-changing government programs, yet whose faces turn purple with excitement when that same government racks up huge debts to pay for world-changing programs that involve bombs, troops and missiles.
Reports of airport assault premature (tags)
8.00am SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
LA Times article on Rachel Corrie's Murder (tags)
For the mainstream press a decent article; though it still soft-peddles Israeli atrocities.
UN will sink into irrelevance -- Good! (tags)
The United Nations is on the verge of demonstrating finally and fatally its moral bankruptcy and its strategic irrelevance: moral bankruptcy, because it will have made a mockery of the very resolution on whose sanctity it insists; strategic irrelevance, because the United States is going to disarm Iraq anyway.
GRASSROOTS PEOPLE OF COLOR ANTI-WAR NETWORK IN ORANGE COUNTY! (tags)
ocrc@mail.com
Rebel victory near in Nepal? (tags)
"We received a notice yesterday from the government side notifying us that they have withdrawn the terrorist tag and price on our heads," said rebel leader Prachanda, whose real name is Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Libya Elected to Chair U.N. Human Rights Body (tags)
Latest from the UN - that great source of moral authority.
NIXON LIBRARY ANTI-WAR PROTEST THIS SAT. JAN 18 !! (tags)
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Anti-War Protest @ The Nixon Library This Sat. Jan 18 !! (tags)
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NIXON LIBRARY ANTI-WAR PROTEST THIS SAT. JAN 18 !! (tags)
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ANTI-WAR PROTEST @ NIXON LIBARARY THIS SAT. JAN 18 (tags)
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ANTI-WAR PROTEST @ NIXON LIBRARY IN OC THIS SAT. JAN 18 !!!! (tags)
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ANTI-WAR PROTEST SAT. JAN 18 @ NIXON LIBRARY !!! (tags)
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Anti-War Protest @ Nixon Library Next Saturday Jan. Saturday Jan 18 !!! (tags)
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NIXON LIBRARY ANTI-WAR PROTEST AND MLK DAY CELEBRATIONS IN OC SAT. JAN 18 !!! (tags)
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ORANGE COUNTY ANTI-WAR PROTEST @ NIXON LIBRARY SAT. JAN 18 !! (tags)
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NIXON LIBRARY ANTI-WAR PROTEST SAT. JAN 18 !!! (tags)
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Anti-War Protest @ Nixon Library Sat. Jan 18 !! (tags)
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Anti-War Protest in Orange County @ Nixon Library Sat. Jan 18 !! (tags)
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Nixon Library Anti-War Protest Sat. Jan 18 (tags)
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MLK DAY CELEBRATIONS / NIXON LIBRARY ANTI-WAR PROTEST JAN. 18 (tags)
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MLK DAY CLEBRATION @ NIXON LIBRARY 4 ANTI-WAR PROTEST JAN. 18 !!! (tags)
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Anarcho-fundamentalists (tags)
How ultra-leftists are killing the left
oppose iraq war like gandhi (tags)
use civil disobedience strategies
parents of dying iraqii children vent fury at bush (tags)
pity itaq isnt a superduperpower, they could just attack america and do a regime change
The War that Destroyed America (tags)
The facts and figures really tell the story when it comes to whose interests are addressed and whose are ignored!!
An Ode to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (tags)
a poem on Dr King's day
That (Supposedly) Liberal Media (tags)
That (Supposedly) Liberal Media
At a Senate hearing last Thursday, Attorney General John Ashcroft finally defined the word terrorist for us. He also came up with the idea of Osama TV and waved an al Qaeda training manual around like McCarthy used to do in the '50s with his fake list of communists.
Whose World? Theirs or Ours? (tags)
There's a new publication out for global justice activists -- the August-September issue of the International Socialist Review, with essays by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Brutus, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Michael Albert, Walden Bello, Kevin Danaher, Lisa Fithian...
Whose World? Theirs or Ours? (tags)
There's a new publication out for global justice activists -- the August-September issue of the International Socialist Review, with essays by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Brutus, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Michael Albert, Walden Bello, Kevin Danaher, Lisa Fithian...
Taking from the Poor to Serve and Protect the Rich (tags)
Editorial