Following the nationally-coordinated police evictions last month of Occupy Wall Street and encampments across the country, on December 12 the Occupiers struck back. Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. Despite a barrage of hostile propaganda in the media, opposition from union bureaucrats and heavy police repression in some places, overall the blockade was successful -- this time. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can't be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT's union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy.

Egyptian Military Power Grab (tags)

Egypt

Targeting Iran and Syria (tags)

anti-war

War of Words on Iran (tags)

Iran

America's Imperial Arrogance (tags)

imperialism

Washington and Israel: Rogue State Partners (tags)

imperialism

Mixed Messages on Gaddafi (tags)

Gaddafi

Pushing the Envelope for Confrontation with Iran (tags)

anti-war

Iran Falsely Charged with Fake Terror Plot (tags)

imperialism

Resuming Peace Process Hypocrisy to Subvert Palestinian Statehood (tags)

Palestine

Imperialist War, Mass Murder, and Torture, But Did September 11th Change ?Everything?? (tags)

"Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified. Now the U.S. government is preparing to terror bomb Afghanistan?" -Liberation News, September 11, 2001

"My Name Is Rachel Corrie" Opens in LA (tags)

For four nights in September, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum presents the controversial one-woman play that has become a flashpoint for opposing viewpoints about Israel's presence in the Gaza strip.

Follow-Up Comments on Palestinian Statehood Vote (tags)

Palestinian statehood

NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime (tags)

anti-war

Obama's Wars on Humanity (tags)

anti-war

Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya (tags)

anti-war

Repression in Israel and Bahrain (tags)

police state

The Greatest Depression (tags)

economy

NATO's Libya War Unraveling (tags)

anti-war

Libya: What America's Media Won't Report (tags)

anti-war

Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering (tags)

Murdoch

Remembering Brian Haw (tags)

anti-war

Remote Control Killing Like Sport (tags)

imperialism

The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II) (tags)

imperialism

America's Imperial War on Libya (tags)

imperialism

Killings, Detentions and Torture in Egypt (tags)

repression

Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America's Gulf (tags)

eco-insanity

2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt (tags)

repression

Mission Creep in Libya (tags)

aggression

Alarming New Fukushima Reports (tags)

nuclear disaster

Remembering Vittorio Arrigoni (tags)

murder

Arab Spring Yet to Bloom (tags)

democracy

Palestinian Statehood and Other Political Issues (tags)

statehood

Goldstone Commission Members Affirm Study Findings (tags)

Goldstone Commission

Japan's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered? (tags)

nuclear disaster

BBC: US and UK Imperial Tool (tags)

propaganda

Reactions to Aristide's Impending Return (tags)

Aristide

Middle East Protests Continue (tags)

liberating struggles

Arab Street Celebrates Mubarak's Ouster (tags)

liberating struggles

Mubarak's Failed Bait and Switch (tags)

liberating struggles

People Power v. Duplicity in Egypt and Washington (tags)

people power

Field Notes on American-Style Democracy (tags)

imperialism

Revolutionary Middle East Change (tags)

sweeping change

Middle East Intifadas (tags)

uprisings

The "Palestine Papers" Revealed (tags)

treachery revealed

Britain's War on Islam (tags)

vilifying Muslims

The True Richard Holbrooke Legacy (tags)

another war criminal

WikiLeaks Reveals Diplomatic Cables on Aafia Siddiqui (tags)

No smoking guns

The New York Times Again Censoring WikiLeaks (tags)

willful New York Times censorship

America: Land of Police State Repression (tags)

targeting the vulnerable and innocent

Adnan Mirza: Another US War on Terror Victim (tags)

post-9/11, America declared war on Islam

Israeli Academic Freedom at Rish (tags)

israeli free expression endangered

The Liberal Media: Rest in Peace (tags)

the myth of the liberal media

WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" (tags)

a powerful indictment of all wars

US Media's Pro-Israeli Bias: Response to the Freedom Flotilla Slaughter (tags)

appalling major media coverage

Fabricating Terrorism: Victims of UK Injustice (tags)

Britain and America partnered for injustice

The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti (tags)

"A US military occupation of Haiti under the guise of earthquake disaster ‘relief’ would give Washington and private business interests tied to it a geopolitical prize of the first order. Prior to the January 12 quake, the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince was the fifth largest US embassy in the world, comparable to its embassies in such geopolitically strategic places as Berlin and Beijing.[17] With huge new oil finds off Cuba being exploited by Russian companies, with clear indications that Haiti contains similar vast untapped oil as well as gold, copper, uranium and iridium, with Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela as a neighbor to the south of Haiti, a return of Aristide or any popular leader committed to developing the resources for the people of Haiti, -- the poorest nation in the Americas -- would constitute a devastating blow to the world’s sole Superpower. The fact that in the aftermath of the earthquake, UN Haiti Special Envoy Bill Clinton joined forces with Aristide foe George W. Bush to create something called the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund ought to give everyone pause. According to Marguerite Laurent ('Ezili Dantò') of the Haitian Lawyers’ Leadership Network, under the guise of emergency relief work, the US, France and Canada are engaged in a balkanization of the island for future mineral control. She reports rumors that Canada wants the North of Haiti where Canadian mining interests are already present. The US wants Port-au-Prince and the island of La Gonaive just offshore – an area identified in Aristide’s development book as having vast oil resources, and which is bitterly contested by France. She further states that China, with UN veto power over the de facto UN-occupied country, may have something to say against such a US-France-Canada carve up of the vast wealth of the nation."

The Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (tags)

how to stop Israeli crimes

Defeat U.S. War on Afghanistan and Iraq! (tags)

On December 1, President Barack Obama officially announced a massive escalation of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, tripling the number of American military personnel there since Obama took office. This move marks a decision by Washington to continue the colonial occupation of Afghanistan indefinitely, and with it the bloody slaughter of the Afghan people. Obama’s claim that he would “begin the transfer” of U.S. forces by mid-2011 was just sucker bait for gullible liberals. “Afghanistan Is Now Obama’s War,” proclaimed the media from New York to London to Mumbai. But Afghanistan has been the Democrats’ war since the moment it was launched, in September 2001, and together with the war on Iraq, it is a bipartisan imperialist war. No one in Washington thinks the Afghan puppet army will be able to handle the Taliban. The actual U.S. strategy is not to defeat the Taliban but to weaken it enough so that elements of the Islamists can be brought into a political deal. It is striking that in the United States, a majority of the population is turning against the war even though there hasn’t been a major national antiwar march in more than two years – ever since the start of the last presidential election campaign. At protests following Obama’s announcement of more troops to Afghanistan, organizers carefully avoided any signs mentioning the president by name. Our Internationalist contingent, in contrast, carried signs including, “Hey Obama, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? Defeat Imperialist Slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq.”

DU weapons use in Iraq; drastic birth defects in Fallujah (tags)

On Friday, 11.13.2009, the London Guardian reported a "Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah," Iraq. I sent the news to KPFA Radio 94.1FM Weekend News Anchor Anthony Fest, along with contact info for Bob Nichols, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper correspondent and winner of a 2004 Project Censored Award for his reporting on U.S. military's use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq, and consequent radiation poisoining. I then edited and animated the resulting KPFA Evening News segment, 11.15.2009:

Fort Hood Tragedy Sparks Islamophobic Response (tags)

shameful media response

Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions (tags)

Goldstone accuses Israel of war crimes

FDR's New Deal v. Obamanomics in Their First 100 Days (tags)

stark mirror opposites

Obama's Latest No Banker Left Behind Scheme (tags)

the looting of America

Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and Prosecutions (tags)

It's time to hold Israel accountable.

Bolivia's New Constitution: Progressive Change or Business As Usual (tags)

Bolivians vote.

Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians (tags)

World outrage condemns Israeli war crimes

Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas (tags)

the blame game

Public Enemy Number One (tags)

Fed- engineered crisis.

Using Georgia to Target Russia (tags)

Welcome to the new Cold War and Great Game

Gaza Under Siege (tags)

Continuation of one of the world's greatest crimes.

The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda (tags)

Part of the Bush administration's permanent war agenda.

Financial Meltdown A "Gigantic Fraud"! (tags)

Leading Economic Writer: Financial Meltdown A "Gigantic Fraud" - Says Americans "duped" by "serpent-tongued" elite!

Reviewing David Edwards and David Cromwell's Guardians of Power (tags)

A powerful critique of the dominant media

Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez (tags)

Relentless media bashing of Hugo Chavez.

Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" (tags)

The human wreckage of disaster capitalism.

Iraq Progress Report (tags)

The real conditions on the ground in Iraq

(JINSA/PNAC associated) Cheney favors attack on Iran (for Israel, of course!) (tags)

Cheney wants US to attack Iran for Israel!

Saving A President (tags)

More war ahead to save a criminal president

Reinventing A War Criminal (tags)

Reinventing Tony Blair as a Trojan horse peacenik.

Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them? (tags)

Resource wars will destroy all planetary life.

The End of the Bush Dynasty (tags)

How George Bush hastened the demise of the Bush family political dynasty.

The US, Israel and Lebanon: Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict (tags)

The destructive and lethal forces unleashed this past summer by the United States and Israel upon Lebanon are not surprising in light of their historical roots in at least four patterns of conflict:

AFGHANISTAN - THE OTHER LOST WAR (tags)

HOW THE US PLUNDERED AFGHANISTAN IN THE NAME OF LIBERATION

Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth (tags)

n this frightening mess in the Middle East, let's get one thing straight. Iran is not threatening Israel with destruction. Iran's president has not threatened any action against Israel. Over and over, we hear that Iran is clearly "committed to annihilating Israel" because the "mad" or "reckless" or "hard-line" President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel But every supposed quote, every supposed instance of his doing so, is wrong.

Darth Vader and the New World Order (tags)

Alex Jones of Infowars.com compares the latest Star Wars film to the New World Order Elite.

Veterans and military familes say: 'Bring troops home now - and care for them' (tags)

ST. LOUIS - “Those in the armed services right now can speak the truth about Iraq because we've been there, we've seen with our own eyes the disaster we've created in Iraq. And we can tell you that the only way to cope with this disaster is to bring the troops home now - and care for them when they return!”

Miami FTAA Protest: Cops Rampage Against Youth, Labor (tags)

What Strategy to Defeat Imperialism?

Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony (tags)

The Last Essay. I am honored to post with my name and hopefully await what respect Real Democracy teaches by its practice in a civil society.

U.S. Hands Off North Korea! (tags)

With Over 7,000 Civilians Killed in the U.S./British War on Iraq and thousands more civilians dead in Afghanistan, War Crazed Imperialists Scope Out Next Victims!

40 lies of Bush the Bastard (tags)

Look at what I found @ Portland IMC.

Major Watergate-like scandal over WMD? (tags)

WASHINGTON, Jun 2 (IPS) - When all three major U.S. newsweeklies--Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report--run major features on the same day on possible government lying, you can bet you have the makings of a major scandal.

U.S. Hands Off North Korea! (tags)

With 9,000 Civilians Killed in the U.S./British Wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, War Crazed Imperialists Scope Out Next Victims!

HelpUSA in Suicide: Bush Sr. and Sons-48 Hours to Leave Planet (tags)

THE GREAT INTENTIONAL WATERS FULL OF REVENGE AND THE WORLD WILL ONLY BE HEAL WHEN CLEANSED OF DISEASE KNOWN AS THE USA. Make the fire burn beneath their feet. Allah be Praised.Bless Palestinians- A. Roy, 'GW Bush is insane!"

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