‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 (tags)
A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.
The greatest show on earth (tags)
"It takes considerable fragmentation in the media portrayal of these crimes and radical recontextualization as a 'struggle for democracy and human rights' for crimes of this magnitude, as well as their historical continuity, to become virtually invisible to the public. Although all of this is extensively documented, these crimes are virtually absent from the public consciousness."
Turn of the times and Negotiations instead of truce (tags)
"Public opinion continues to cling to pragmatism and pacifism. Skepticism toward military means has even increased since the beginning of the war." "The most important thing is to end the war as soon as possible, even if that means Ukraine ceding control of territory to Russia."
The "West" and its war aims in Ukraine (tags)
The Western-oriented countries want to help Ukraine, but not all of them have the same goal in mind. Whereas shortly after the invasion the focus was on defense, since Ramstein the U.S. has been talking about Kiev's need to win the war.
He who is without sin should cast the first stone. The author says the church lost a great chance at regaining credibility if it would have questioned or relativized the vaccine syringe faith. No one can serve two masters, mammon and God. Everyone should be vaccinated and then the lockdown ended, Jens Berger said.
The interiors of Uranus contain about 50,000 times the amount of water in Earth's oceans...
Let's talk about Uranus (tags)
"Uranus personifying the sky" they say regarding greek mythology...
How Did Gore Receive At Least 114,000 More Votes Than Bush in Florida in 2000 (tags)
Jeb Bush's voter roll purging, the criminal deceit of the Florida Times Union, police intimidation, barring of precincts etc robbed the American people of our choice in 2000. The disastrous results remain with us at this time.
Toledot: Jewish Genealogy (tags)
Indigenous Rights, Genealogy, Jewish History, Israel, "Palestine"
Democracy beyond Corona (tags)
Whether the experiences of the lockdown will result in lasting damage in the sense of a democratically consumptive "new normality" depends not least on whether it is possible to take up and strengthen the very existing democracy-building impulses and initiatives - from "Black Lives Matter" to "Fridays for Future".
Thoughts and Theses on the Corona Exceptional State (tags)
The state of emergency threatens to become the normal state - Maximum vigilance is now required to ensure that the new state of emergency does not gradually normalize and that the authoritarian turnaround does not become entrenched.
Last Summer's 'Mysterious' Nuclear Explosion (tags)
A 'mysterious' nuclear explosion in Russia last August still begs out attention.
Woman shot and killed by police officer in her own home/Another victim of police violence (tags)
So many examples of police brutality in the USA. Racist based [against blacks, but also other people of colour], but also white people are victims. Partly racist, partly just trigger happiness, or a combination. A dirty State in a dirtier State, that is the American police. A criminal organisation! This time about a black woman, who is shot and killed by a white cop in her own home. Time for a 'j'accuse. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians (tags)
The memories of a man who was raised by the Choinumne for 10 years in the mid-1800s.
April 16 2019 Inmigration Rules do not Hold Water (tags)
people have a right to organize for sanctuary laws.There are reasons for this.What we do not like, is the funneling of tens of thousands of people who have been apprehended by border patrol and then delivered like a ups to these sanctuary zones.
Nazareth did not exist in "jesus" ´ time
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, The Washington Post, Whole Foods, Etc (tags)
Washington Post reporters are to be commended for their tremendous investigative work in uncovering details of Donald Trump regime crimes. Their work is a separate issue from the record of Jeff Bezos
Trump Restaurants: Over 150 Health Code Violations (tags)
Trump's attack on The Red Hen restaurant has come back to him 100 fold.
Cape Cod: From Colonial Plunder To Atomic Revenge (tags)
You could say it all began at Cod on the east coast, with the Pilgrims, emphasis on grim.
Millions Boycott The Sponsors Of Laura Ingraham (tags)
Laura Ingraham's Racist Warmongering And Pattern Of Insults Have Caused A Massive Response
Journalism of, by and for the Elite (tags)
How the New York Times and Wall Street Journal mirror the 1% they cover
LA Times Homicide Report (tags)
The Homicide Report is an interactive map, database and blog that chronicles homicides in Los Angeles County. Any death deemed a homicide by the coroner’s office -- the death of a human being by the hand of another -- is included in the database. Coroner's officials currently are providing a bi-weekly list of homicides to The Times. At a minimum, the Homicide Report provides basic details of each killing. In addition, the report includes in-depth reporting of cases and communities, as well as updates when arrests are made and suspects are tried in court.
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.
Importance Of Emergency Volunteers (tags)
in reality during times of great emergencies and disasters trained Volunteers become the most available and therefore the most important...
The true history of the fbi (tags)
This report reveals the true and real murderous agency that calls itself the fbi.
Nuclear Shutdown News June 2017 (tags)
Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry, in the US and abroad, and highlights the efforts of those working to create a nuclear free world. Here is our July 2017 report:
The Shortwave Report 06/16/17 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio.
Nuclear Shutdown News May 2017 (tags)
Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry in the US and abroad, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free world. Here is our May 2017 report:
Neoliberal Austerity Leads to Deeper Crisis (tags)
A high state share in the economy, developed social states and readiness to intervene actively and anti-cyclically prevent falling into a depression. Trump's demonizing regulation, Medicaid, public schools, Head Start, Meals on Wheels, taxation and democracy must be resisted
Nuke Shutdown News 3/17 (tags)
Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry in the US and abroad, and highlights the efforts of those working to create a nuclear free world. Here's our March 2017 report:
Fukushima quake rock's Japan's and the globe's (tags)
A report on the 11-22-16 Fukushima earthquake.
The Shortwave Report 10/21/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.
1100 free movies are ours on www.openculture.com. How can you be hard-nosed with 1100 free movies?
Sen. Rob Portman: Warmonger, Hunters' Tool, Deforester, Voted 5 Times No On Women's Pay (tags)
31 reasons to vote against former Bush operative Rob Portman on whom the Koch Brothers have spent 81 million on the first ad buy of many.
Tawdry National Public Radio Corruption Puts Stock Holdings Ahead Of Unbiased Reporting (tags)
National Public Radio corruption is shown in their Olympic coverage.
The Shortwave Report 07/15/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio international, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Sputnik Radio.
The Shortwave Report 05/06/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.
Tribune Company Stock Bought By LAPD Union To Silence Criticism Of Police (tags)
When the LAPD union bought Tribune Co. stock it jeopardized the pensions of tens of thousands of police as it attempted to silence criticism of the police department
The Shortwave Report 01/08/16 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Sputnik Radio.
Israel
NYT Perpetuates the Myth about Obama Killing Osama (tags)
NYT
NYT Ignores Root Cause of Violence in Palestine (tags)
Israel
Latest NYT Big Lie: Russia Responsible for Syrian Refugee "Surge" (tags)
NYT
Flashback:UK press glorifies savage assassination of President Gaddafi by NATO mercenaries (tags)
The sheer euphoria of the entire British press over President Muammar Gaddafi's savage assassination by NATO's mercenaries on the 8th month of the genocidal invasion of Libya betrayed an absolute moral bankruptcy of the predatory imperialist alliance of NATO countries, Arab monarchies and Israel.
Solidarity in Moscow Against US-Supported Terrorism (tags)
Syria
NYT Justifies US Afghan Hospital Bombing (tags)
NYT
Violence Achieves One Thing Only - More of It (tags)
Israel
AIPAC's War on Palestine (tags)
Israel
Scandalous NYT Anti-Palestinian Propaganda (tags)
Israel
Putin Is Right Saying US Officials Have Mush for Brains (tags)
Putin
Opposing Views on Premeditated (tags)
Israel
Israel's Killing Machine Takes More Palestinian Lives (tags)
Israel
Putin's Righteous Mission (tags)
Syria
Syria
The Latest Presstitute Big Lie About Russia in Syria (tags)
Syria
Irresponsible NYT Putin Bashing (tags)
Syria
NYT Falsely Claims Russia Sending Troops to Syria (tags)
Syria
Israeli Fascist Brutality (tags)
Israel
The Latest NYT Propaganda Piece on Syria (tags)
Syria
Straight Talk on Israeli Viciousness (tags)
Israel
Obama Irresponsibly Bashes Putin (tags)
Syria
Propaganda War on Russia in High Gear (tags)
Syria
The Anti-Russian Lying Machine in Action (tags)
Syria
Russia's Upper House Authorizes Aerial Operations in Syria (tags)
Syria
US and Russia: Geopolitical Opposites (tags)
anti-war
Irresponsible Putin Bashing Following His UN Address (tags)
Putin
Al Jazeera America Struggles to Survive (tags)
Al Jazeera
Putin
Putin and Obama to Meet at UN (tags)
anti-war
Syria's Future: Another One-Sided NYT Debate (tags)
Syria
Russia's Real Involvement in Syria (tags)
Syria
Greeks Without Choice in Sunday Election (tags)
Greece
Some Straight Facts about History of Deng Xiaoping (tags)
Deng which mean little bottle in Mandarin was the most important Chinese in China leader of the 20th century. He helped in the "Anti Rightists Campaign of the 1950's and helped to reverse the disaster begun by Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward 1958-1961 28-40 million rural deaths.
Irresponsibly Bashing Venezuelan Justice (tags)
Venezuela
Irresponsible Western Media Russia Bashing (tags)
Russia
Syrian Refugees Call Israel Their Main Enemy (tags)
Israel
Jeremy Corbyn Elected Britain's New Labour Party Leader (tags)
elections
Israel Protecting Killers of Immolated Palestinians (tags)
Israel
anti-war
US/Media Misinformation on Russian/Syrian Relations (tags)
Syria
Unconstitutional Solitary Confinement in America (tags)
police state
Western Support for Israeli State Terror (tags)
Israel
NYT Features Anti-Russian Propagandist (tags)
propaganda
Washington Intends Breaching Iran Nuclear Deal (tags)
Iran
Fabricated Pentagon Reports on ISIS (tags)
ISIS
Everything Western Media Report About Russia Is a Big Fat Lie (tags)
Russia
New York Times Mocks Palestinian Hunger Striker Near Death (tags)
NYT
Genocide Advocate Appointed Israeli UN Envoy (tags)
Israel
Facade of Diplomacy Masks Same Old US Latin American Policy (tags)
imperialism
Canadian Mining Conglomerate Kinross Responsible For Animals Disaster Says Mine Owner (tags)
Network news has been hiding the role of Kinross, Canadian mining conglomerate with mines around the world, in causing the Animas River disaster
Unjustifiable De Facto Martial Law in Ferguson, MO (tags)
police state
Irresponsible NYT and CNN Venezuela Bashing (tags)
Venezuela
Political Debates: Theater, not Substance (tags)
politics
Mammal Flesh Sandwiches Slaughter The Rainforest, Criminally Waste Water, (tags)
In the over thousand fires burning in Canada and the US, in the violent storms, the flooding in some areas and drought in others, record heat in summer and cold in winter, we are seeing the effects of climate change (global heating and freezing)
Deepening Greek Depression (tags)
Greece
Joe Biden to Challenge Hillary? (tags)
Biden
Hollow Israeli Sorrow Over Palestinian Baby Immolation by Settlers (tags)
Israel
Israel Bombs Syria During Large-Scale War Games (tags)
Israel
Whitewashing Sandra Bland's Murder (tags)
police state
Unidentified US Navy Nurse Honored for Refusing Involvement in Force-Feeding (tags)
police state
New York Times Editors Still Outrageously Blame Russia for Kiev's Downing MH17 (tags)
NYT
Greece: Approving Its Own Death Sentence (tags)
Greece
Four People Charged in Racially Motivated Stabbing by neo-Nazis (tags)
Kristina Fox, a 30-year-old administrative assistant, alongside her younger brother, was beaten and stabbed repeatedly in her back and face while being called "nigger" repeatedly by a racist mob of white men and women in Chicago.
Israel Intends Blitzkrieg Against Iran Nuclear Deal (tags)
Israel
Israel Frees Khader Adnan (tags)
Israel
Iran Nuclear Talks: Mixed Reports (tags)
Iran
Iran Bashing in Late Stage Nuclear Talks (tags)
Iran
Greece: Ground Zero for Global Pillage (tags)
Greece
Former Science Ed of London Times: Smallpox Vaccine Triggered Aids (tags)
As Governor Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer have worked to violate the 1st amendment which guarantees religious freedom and to violate the health of children, it's time to examine again the data which indicates the WHO smallpox vaccine spread AIDS around the world.
Israel Is Murdering Khader Adnan (tags)
Israel
Irresponsible Iran Bashing (tags)
Iran
Attempted US Color Revolution in Armenia? (tags)
Armenia
New York Times Big Lies (tags)
NYT
Israel's Response to Everything: Collective Punishment (tags)
Israel
Israel
Netanyahu's Latest Demagoguery (tags)
Israel
Examples of Israeli Viciousness (tags)
Israel
Libya
Presstitute Media Support Anti-Consumer Fast Track Legislation (tags)
trade
KPFK & PAPCIFICA forum in LA (tags)
June 12 - 15 2015 - Fri-Sat-Sun, here in LA are 3 full days of meetings by Pacifica PNB & KPFK's LSB...with brief public-comment times barely included. See website for agenda.
LA Times goes to bat for killer cops in Salinas (tags)
"Velasco suffered bruises and may have a broken leg", (Salinas Police Chief) McMillin said at the very end of an report defending the latest police aggression against an already restrained subject. The media experts at Tribune Corporation know that few people read past the headline, and save truth for the end. The truth is in the video just becoming viral, and Salinas police are in urgent need of damage control.
Washington's Phony War on ISIS (tags)
ISIS
G-7 Summit: Russia Bashing Featured (tags)
G-7
Irresponsible New York Times Russia Bashing (tags)
NYT
Poroshenko Hypes Nonexistent Russian Invasion Threat (tags)
Ukraine
New York Times Editors Love Ruthless Despots (tags)
NYT
Relentless Putin Bashing (tags)
Putin
Scoundrel Media FIFA Bashing (tags)
media
Propaganda Accompanies Kiev's Buildup for Escalated Aggression (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine: A Cancer in Europe's Heartland (tags)
Ukraine
The New York Times Endorses Israeli Mass Slaughtering Palestinians by Refusing to Condemn (tags)
NYT
US Strategy: Bombing Yemen Back to the 19th Century (tags)
Yemen
Links Re Many Instances Of Police Killings And Beatings (tags)
Video cams and cellphones have been equalizers and democratizers in exposing blue violence.
Videos, Lawsuits Will Hopefully End Unjustified Police Killings And Beatings (tags)
Violence is not increasing, but the awareness of the violence, through video cams, cellphones, and social media is increasing.
Israel: Serial Terror-Bomber (tags)
Israel
Kiev's Poroshenko Vows Continued War (tags)
Ukraine
Bashing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsiras's Moscow Visit (tags)
Greece
New York Times Editors Endorse Murdering Millions of Iranians (tags)
NYT
Secret US Intelligence on Yemen Compromised (tags)
Yemen
anti-war
Lurching Toward Armageddon (tags)
anti-war
Israeli Election Postmortems (tags)
Israel
Irresponsible Putin Rumors (tags)
Putin
anti-war
The New York Times War on Truth Revisited (tags)
NYT
Hawkish US Senator Charged with Corruption (tags)
corruption
Venezuela
Israel
Putin Bashing Crowd in Overdrive Over Nemtsov illing (tags)
Russia
NYT Editors Supp;ort Fascist Extremism (tags)
NYT
Nemtsov Murdeer: Anti-Putin False Flag! (tags)
Putin
This report should awaken our people to the out of control liars and murderers of the USA's intelligence community.
Dams that dont exist flood gaza (tags)
Palestinian media and officials are facing ridicule in the Israeli press for blaming the Israeli government for flooding the Gaza Strip by opening dams. But there’s one problem: Israel says those alleged dams don’t exist. “Even the weather is fair game in Hamas’s war of words against Israel,” wrote the Times of Israel, while the blog Israelly Cool had this headline: “Palestinians and Supporters Open the Floodgates of Bullcrap.” “[O]f course no crisis in Gaza can go to waste without blaming it on Israel,” Israelly Cool wrote. The claim of Israel intentionally flooding Gaza has made headlines in the pro-Palestinian media over the past week in which a freak winter storm hit the Middle East with a deluge of rain and snow, including a once-in-a-century snowfall in neighboring Egypt.
No Let Up in Intense Anti-Russian Propaganda (tags)
anti-war
Deconstructing John Kerry's Big Lies in London (tags)
anti-war
Caracas Mayor Part of US Coup Plot (tags)
Venezuela
Bashing Russia and Rebels for Kiev Crimes (tags)
Ukraine
Elie Wiesel's Anti-Iranian Big Lies (tags)
Israel
Ukraine
Post-Minsk Russia Bashing (tags)
Ukraine
Famous Vegetarians, Vegans, Fruitarians (tags)
Millions more become vegetarian or vegan every year adding their names to the book of life for all. Mary Shelley, Clara Barton, Leonardo, Van Gogh, Einstein, Jesus the Essene, Angela Davis, Carl Lewis, Roger Bannister, John Landy, and hundreds of millions of others on the planet are vegetarian
Outrageous MSM Putin Bashing (tags)
Russia
US Orchestrated Coup Plot in Venezuela? (tags)
Venezuela
Human Rights Groups Condemn Israeli Gaza War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Lunatics Run the Washington Asylum (tags)
anti-war
The Shortwave Report 01/23/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.
America's Abysmal State (tags)
America
anti-war
anti-war
Palestine
Why Palestinian Sovereignty Matters (tags)
Palestine
Thoughts on New Year's Eve (tags)
anti-war
Putin's Approval Rating v. Obama's (tags)
anti-war
West?Russia Rapprochement? (tags)
anti-war
Follow-Up Open Letter to New York Times Editors (tags)
NYT
killer cops
New York Times: Enemy of Truth (tags)
NYT
Israeli Good Tidings for Palestinians (tags)
Israel
Blessed Are the Peacemakers (tags)
anti-war
America
BBC: Propaganda Bullhorn Specialists (tags)
BBC
US/Israeli No Palestinian State Solution (tags)
Palestine
America: Cesspool of Terror (tags)
America
US Attempted Color Revolution in Russia? (tags)
Russia
Longstanding US Cuba Policy: Regime Change (tags)
Cuba
Formeer Mossad Head Blasts Netanyahu (tags)
Israel
police state
Over-the-Top Israeli Policies (tags)
Israel
Hagel Sacking Suggests More War (tags)
anti-war
US Electoral Postmortems (tags)
elections
Hard Truths v. Obama Big Lies (tags)
Obama
Duplicitous Ukrainian Electoral Postmortems (tags)
Ukraine
Reinventing Vietnam War History (tags)
Vietnam
MSM Misinformation on Ukraine's Parliamentary Electioms (tags)
Ukraine
Reinvented Scoundrel Media History (tags)
media
economy
Remember Gaza: One of History's Great Crimes (tags)
Gaza
Gary Webb Crucified For Revealing CIA Connection To Crack Cocaine (tags)
Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News revealed CIA creation of the crack cocaine epidemic in the US. The Los Angeles Times assigned 17! reporters to discredit him. A new movie "Kill The Messenger" tells the story.
class war
Joe Biden's Rhetorical Ineptness (tags)
Biden
Irresponsible NYT Putin Bashing (tags)
anti-war
Propaganda War on Islamic State Militants (tags)
anti-war
Obama Targets Free Expression (tags)
police state
Irresponsible New York Times Presstitution (tags)
NYT
Enlisting Support for Imperial War (tags)
anti-war
Fear-Mongering Ahead of Another US False Flag? (tags)
fear-mongering
Venezuela
Washington Hawks Want Greater Middle East Spending (tags)
ani-war
MSM Ignore International and Constitutional Law (tags)
anti-war
Obama Intends Escalating Middle East Aggression (tags)
anti-war
Hard Truths v. MSM Big Lies (tags)
Ukraine
The Russians Are Coming Big Lies (tags)
Ukraine
Washington Sabotages Russian/Ukrainian Summit (tags)
Ukraine
Obama Declares War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Obama Heading for War on Syria? (tags)
Syria
Irresponsible Putin Bashing Escalates (tags)
anti-war
Promoting Confrontation with Russia (tags)
anti-war
The New York Times War on Truth (tags)
NYT
Gaza
Iraq
Reactions to Obama at West Point (tags)
Obama
Media Scoundrels On Sham Ukrainian Elections (tags)
Ukraine
Historic Sino/Russian Trade Deal Signed (tags)
trade
NYT Editors Defend the Indefensible (tags)
NYT
State-Sponsore Terror in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Book TV: Panel on Finance (tags)
Participants at the Los Angeles Times Panel on Finance: Anat Admati; Helaine Olen; Nomi Prins
India
Sacking NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson (tags)
NYT
New York Times War on Truth (tags)
media
Eastern Ukrainian Referendum Post-Mortems (tags)
Ukraine
Bashing Putin's Diplomatic Proposal (tags)
Ukraine
Fascism's Willing Co-Conspirators (tags)
media
Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies (tags)
Ukraine
Fact Checking Scoundrel Media Lies (tags)
Ukraine
NYT Russia Bashing Stench (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine
Obama Threatens Russia and China (tags)
Obama
Neoliberalism has brought us back to Rockefeller's best times. Bill Gates is 1.4 million times as rich as the average American. A "feudal lifestyle" is made out to be worthwhile and in no way negatively described. Thus "re-feudalization" is dulled as a polemical term.
Ukraine
Ukraine
Unacceptable State-Sponsored Murder (tags)
Ukraine
Four-Party Agreement on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine
US-Anti-Iranian Arrogance (tags)
Iran
Big Lies Drown Out Truth (tags)
Ukraine
Obama's War on Immigrants (tags)
police state
Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks Flounder (tags)
Israel
Reckless Russia Bashing Persists (tags)
Russia
Another False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Planned (tags)
Syria
LeBron James And Advertising (tags)
an open letter to LeBron James.... thousands of champion vegan and vegetarian athletes ask you to join their ranks
The Struggle for Ukraine's Soul Continues (tags)
Ukraine
Forever intertwined: KPFK, WBAI, Gary Null ? (tags)
A post copied from Wikipedia re Gary Null, long a premium contributor to KPFK. Confirmation of what is factual and what is assume should always be done but that takes more dedicated work. Meanwhile this is of interest to KPFK listeners in Los Angeles because Gary has been on air here for so many years, loved, disliked, distrusted, adored and purchased by many here thru KPFK's audio weekly. Add or change this with comments if you know more actualities. No slamming please !
New York Times Editors Front for Power (tags)
NYT
Obama's Ruthless Egyptian Friends (tags)
Egypt
The Russians Are Coming (tags)
Ukraine
Media Prostitutes Defend the Indefensible (tags)
Ukraine
Pre and Post-Crimean Independence Treaty Propaganda (tags)
Crimea
Post-Crimean Referendum Propaganda (tags)
Crimea
Crimeans Vote on Joining Russia (tags)
Crimea
NYT Editors Wage War on Truth (tags)
NYT
Heightened US/Russian Tensions (tags)
Ukraine
Walking the New Broadway (tags)
Carbusters.org, the journal of the carfree movement, generously allows downloading 40 past issues. http://carbusters.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2010/07/Carbusters-40.pdf
Media Scoundrels on the Wrong Side of History (tags)
Ukraine
Scoundrel Media War on Russia (tags)
Ukraine
New York Times: Supporting US Imperial Lawlessness (tags)
NYT
Scoundrel Media War on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Stop NY Gov Cuomo From Massacring 165,000 Geese And Mute Swans (tags)
For untold decades, the USDA has secretly acted to kill millions of birds. Now it is behind the scenes in Governor Cuomo's plan to murder 165,000 geese as well as mute swans.
NYT
WMD Deception: Pretext for War on Syria (tags)
Syria
New York Times Editors: On the Wrong Side of History (tags)
anti-war
Protesting Xavier Becerra's Support of TPP (tags)
“Hey Becerra, you can't hide—we can see your corporate side!”
Syria
Israel Bombs Gaza - Again (tags)
Israel
No Joy to the World This Christmas (tags)
anti-war
Washington Abuses Indian Diplomat (tags)
police state
Elie Wiesel's Anti-Iranian Agenda (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right (tags)
NYT
Beltway Bandit Named Senior Obama Adviser (tags)
imperialism
VIDEO: Life and Times of Nelson Mandela, 1 hr 42 min (tags)
Mandela has given us all something to aim for, a democratic and free society where harmony prevails. Only Mandela could prevent a race riot, a nightmarish civil war.
Ukrainian Protests Continue (tags)
Ukraine
Healthcare.Gov Still Troubled (tags)
Obamacare
Market Euphoria During Troubled Times (tags)
markets
TPP
"End Times for Obama": A Dangerous Conservative Myth (tags)
Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Mythic America: Essays and American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea. He blogs at MythicAmerica.us.
Netanyahu Launches Anti-Iranian Twitter Campaign (tags)
Israel
Two Editorials Fall Short (tags)
media
Former NYT Executive Editor Defends the Indefensible (tags)
NYT
Greenpeace International Supporters Tell Russia's Putin "We Are Our Own Sovereign Nation " (tags)
Japan & Russia might be having problems over who gets which islands,but they both conspired to teach Greenpeace Activists a whale of a lesson..
Iraq Today: America's Genocidal Legacy (tags)
Iraq
Longstanding New York Times Pro-Israeli Bias (tags)
media
The Times sinks to new depths: "Assad's snipers target unborn babies in wombs" (tags)
Despite a worldwide awakening on the scale of the longstanding propaganda against the Syrian government, the British media is still peddling monstrous lies to the public.Despite a worldwide awakening on the scale of the longstanding propaganda against the Syrian government, the British media is still peddling monstrous lies to the public.
Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (tags)
Putin
World Reaction to US Government Shutdown (tags)
shutdown
media
Iran
Occupation Harshness Belies Dead on Arrival Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks (tags)
Israel
Anti-Assad Media War Continues (tags)
Syria
Putin Challenges Obama Responsibly (tags)
Syria
New York Times Wants War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Would Obama Open a Pandora's Box in a Strike on Syria? (tags)
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake" (Jeanette Rankin). "Every war has two losers (William Stafford). War is a horror and racket that has served as a profit-center and evasion. Orwell warned that war could become a domestic necessity to divert the people.
Obama
Russia on Syria: Alternative to Peace is Bloody Chaos (tags)
Syria
Obama's War on Syria: Dissent in the Ranks (tags)
Syria
Duplicitous Anti-Syrian Editorials (tags)
Syria
Syria
Egypt
National Public Radio Cruelty To Animals (tags)
The more the average animal flesh consumption in the world plummets, the more desperate NPR (there is nothing public about "Public" radio) is to promote its fast food stock. CEO Gary Knell continues to toll the animals' funeral knell.
Spinning the Israeli/Palestinian Peace Process (tags)
Israel
New York Times Fuels Anti-Iranian Sentiment (tags)
NYT
New York Times Editors Support Police State Persecution (tags)
NYT
Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0 (tags)
class war
Obama's Way: Waging Financial War on Humanity (tags)
Obama
When you are on top, ‘might makes right’ is ‘rule of law’ (tags)
The U.S. government has consistently refused to extradite former dictators, accused terrorists, torturers and others wanted by other countries. It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to give lectures about international obligations in its blunderbuss efforts to get Edward Snowden.
Washington Ousted Egypt's Morsi (tags)
Egypt
Targeting Foreign Leaders: Longstanding US Policy (tags)
police state
Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy Excludes Peace in Our Time (tags)
anti-war
Trafficking in Lies about Syria (tags)
Syria
Iran
Syria's Qusair Victory Matters (tags)
Syria
New York Times Editors Defend the Indefensible (tags)
anti-wa
History, subordination weigh heavily on unfinished Arab Spring (tags)
Western imperial powers have a long history of interference in Egyptian affairs. The failures of the Arab Spring can’t be disentangled from this history.
Iran's June Presidential Election (tags)
Iran
US Hatched Terror Plots (tags)
state terror
False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria (tags)
Syria
America's War on Islam 2.0 (tags)
anti-war
New York Times v. North Korea (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Anti-Palestinian Bias (tags)
NYT
Creating a North Korean Threat (tags)
imperialism
Attacking Venezuela's Democratic Process (tags)
Venezuela
New York Times Supports Targeted Killings (tags)
NYT
Defending IMF Financial Terrorism (tags)
class war
Iran
Those who do the work in the workplace should get the rewards (tags)
People are taught to have a 19th century, romantic notion of capitalism — a myriad of small enterprises competing in a free market. But a “free market” has never existed. Capitalism was built on brutal displays of force, and continues to be based on violence.
A Curious New York Times Article on Teacher Evaluations (tags)
A recent New York Times article, “Curious Grade For Teachers: Nearly All Pass,” finds incredulous the idea that, “In Florida, 97 percent of teachers were deemed effective or highly effective in the most recent evaluations.” The author goes on to cite similar percentages in other states and concludes: “The teachers might be rated all above average, like students in Lake Wobegon, for the same reason that the older evaluation methods were considered lacking.” In other words, the teachers score well because the measuring standard is flawed. And this conclusion is reinforced by the observation that teachers’ high marks were achieved “even when students were falling behind.”
Cyprus
Shameless NYT Defense of Obamacare (tags)
anti-war
class war
New York Times Hypocrisy (tags)
Iraq
Wrongheaded NYT Views When They're Right (tags)
anti-war
New York Times v. Hugo Chavez (tags)
Chavez
Austerity When Stimulus Is Needed (tags)
class war
Israeli Murder by Torture (tags)
Israel
More Economic Straight Talk (tags)
class war
Washington and Israel Target Iran (tags)
Iran
New York Times Misinformation on Syria (tags)
Syria
Obama Declares Global Cyberwar (tags)
anti-war
US and British press hail the 'liberal' policy that allows women to fight in the frontline (tags)
As even more countries fall victim to Anglo-American wars across Asia and Africa in the new year, The New York Times and The Times praise their respective governments’ plans to directly engage women soldiers in the ongoing genocides.
Fascism Wins Big in Israel (tags)
Israel
Chavez
Open Letter to New York Times Editors (tags)
NYT
FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela (tags)
media
New York Times Wages War on Medicare and Social Security (tags)
class war
New York Times Supports Austerity Harshness (tags)
class wa
Americas Lackluster December Jobs Report (tags)
class war
Chavez
Israel
Flim Flam Fiscal Cliff Legislation (tags)
class war
anti-war
New York Times Fiscal Cliff Duplicity (tags)
class war
Propaganda War on Syria Rages (tags)
Syria
The Shortwave Report 12/14/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, China Radio International, and NHK World Radio Japan.
Syria: Tightening the Noose (tags)
Syria
Syria
How about Quantitative Easing for the People? (tags)
Giving the general population x-amount of money would certainly give the economy the boost that it needs instead of going to the bankers. More importantly, however, is for people to have faith in the economy again and that their future is secure.
Palestine UN Vote Postmortems (tags)
Palestine
Obama Wants State-Sponsored Murder Legalized (tags)
Obama
New York Times Opposes Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Israel
Money Party Wins US Election (tags)
elections
Quotes from Governor Gary Johnson, Antiwar and Anti Patriot Act Candidate (tags)
Governor Johnson, on the ballot in 48 states, would withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately, be noninterventionist re Iran, repeal the Patriot Act, balance the budget, decriminalize marijuana etc.
Predicting Protracted Hard Times (tags)
class war
Memo: Researchers told to prepare for ALF break-in by making animals "presentable" (tags)
Newspaper obtains scandalous "eco-terrorism alert" memo, researchers call it a "hoax".
Direct US/Iran Nuclear Talks (tags)
Iran
Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in (tags)
Israel
Cooked or Accurate US Employment Numbers? (tags)
class war
Chavez Win Strengthens Bolivarianism (tags)
elections
Grand Opening of Idependent Book Store, Bank of Books, in Malibu (tags)
Book store grand opening in Malibu. Author Signings and more.
Pressure Builds for Full-Scale War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Israel's "red line" on Iranian nuclear programme and a flashback to 1986 (tags)
With over 2000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it is ironic, to say the least, that Iran’s nuclear energy program is considered by the US and its allies as a threat to “global security”. […] Israel, which follows a policy of nuclear ambiguity, never comments on its nuclear capabilities. However, they are widely known to possess 300 to 400 nuclear warheads with 80 of them in high operational alert […], that is, they are ready to fire.” [Dr Ismail Salami’s article entitled ‘Nuclear Crucifixion: Fake Data and Ficticious Reports used as A Pretext to Wage War on Iran’] link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-crucifixion-fake-data-and-ficticious-reports-used-as-a-pretext-to-wage-war-on-iran/
Israel's "red line" on Iranian nuclear programme and a flashback to 1986 (tags)
“With over 2000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it is ironic, to say the least, that Iran’s nuclear energy program is considered by the US and its allies as a threat to “global security”. […] Israel, which follows a policy of nuclear ambiguity, never comments on its nuclear capabilities. However, they are widely known to possess 300 to 400 nuclear warheads with 80 of them in high operational alert […], that is, they are ready to fire.” [Dr Ismail Salami’s article entitled ‘Nuclear Crucifixion: Fake Data and Ficticious Reports used as A Pretext to Wage War on Iran’] http://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-crucifixion-fake-data-and-ficticious-reports-used-as-a-pretext-to-wage-war-on-iran/
New York Times Promotes War on Syria (tags)
anti-war
imperialism
Anti-Muslim Hate Film Incites Violence (tags)
hate
Corporate Media's War on Public Education (tags)
education
police state
Media Scoundrels Promote Permanent Wars (tags)
media
Iran
The Shortwave Report 8/24/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice Of Russia, Spanish National Radio, and NHK Japan.
New York Times Pro-Israeli Bias (tags)
Israel
Austerity Hastens Economic Decline (tags)
class war
Unconscionable Media Warmongering (tags)
Syria
New York Times Style Debates (tags)
Syria
Inequalities, Taxes, and More Inequalities (tags)
Thanks to Occupy, most working people are well aware of the growing inequalities in wealth. But for those who lack the specifics, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich provides a useful overview: “…the rich have been getting a larger and larger portion of total income. From 9 percent in 1980, the top 1 percent’s take increased to 23.5 percent by 2007. CEOs who in the 1970s took home 40 times the compensation of average workers now rake in 350 times.” (“Confessions of a Class Warrior,” August 22, 2010).
class war
The Shortwave Report 8/03/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, China Radio International, the Voice Of Russia, and Spanish National Radio.
Gore Vidal
Major Media Admit Presence of Foreign Militants in Syria (tags)
Syria
New York Times on Israel's Democracy (tags)
Israel
Stoking Fear Ahead of London's Olympics (tags)
Olympics
Olympiad Readiness: Militarized London Total Policing (tags)
police state
Propaganda War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Big surprise: Corporate media fucks up chalk walk story (tags)
I don't usually do these opinion-type pieces, but I'm trying something a little different here. Bear with me.
Media Scoundrels Endorse Sham Libyan Election (tags)
Libya
Dismal Jobs Report Reflects Economic Decline (tags)
class war
RI Regains Mexican Presidency (tags)
Mexico
Commemorating Anti-Torture Day (tags)
torture
The Crisis and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Box (tags)
Claude Hillinger is a professor of economics at the University of Munich.
Scoundrel Media Support for Obama (tags)
Obama
David Sanger's War on Iran (tags)
media
S
The Shortwave Report 06/01 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and the Voice of Russia.
Obama Plans War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Looming Economic Realities (tags)
class war
Pushing for War on Iran (tags)
Iran
anti-war
Life in Occupied Chicago (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Publishes Hate Ad (tags)
media
Occupy This: Covert Torture Here in California (tags)
Robotic implants and non-lethal weapons are being used to 'control' activists and other political targets. They can create violence, symptoms of mental illness and make you sick in your own home.
The Guy That Just Said, “Yeah? No Thanks.” (tags)
Standing up to conflict and harassment can seem a difficult thing. It's never easy for anyone and really who can say they've truly faced all that life has to offer in the way of trials and tribulations without having gone through some measure of harassment or maltreatment at least once? Of course harassment is relative and what is harsh treatment to one person, or deemed behavior that crosses a line, is merely everyday stuff to another. But there are laws and institutional regulations that define boundaries and denote specific behavior as going too far. Additionally there is the common sense most of us developed over our lifetimes.
Preventing Peace to Wage War (tags)
anti-war
Media Scoundrels Promote War on Syria (tags)
Syria
summit
George Soros Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
anti-war
class war
Iran
New York Times Promotes War on Syria and Iran (tags)
media
Asking the Wrong Questions About War (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Wages War on Palestine (tags)
media
Obama Plans More Middle East Wars (tags)
anti-war
Obama sides with big oil (tags)
keeping gas prices HIGH
class war
New York Times Promoting War on Iran (tags)
media
Hunger Striking for Justice (tags)
Israel
Covert Torture of Political Activists: It Happens Here (tags)
A victim of political targeting in California compares his experiences to those of a human rights activist from Bhutan.
Covert Torture of Political Activists: It Happens Here (tags)
A book by acknowledged torture victim who was a Bhutanese political activist sheds light on covert acts being used here on activists. Recently it was discovered that Ernest Hemingway was a FBI surveillance object. He suffered from depression, sexual impotence and eventual suicide. Was this the result of his ties to Fidel Castro? This book from Bhutan was analyzed by a USA activist/victim.
America's Sham Economic Recovery (tags)
class war
Wall Street Excess and Main Street Distress: the Apple Connection (tags)
Apple’s march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers
Israeli Settlements: An Obstacle to Peace (tags)
Israel
Former US Policymakers Promote War on Iran (tags)
Iran
New York Times-Style Journalism (tags)
media
Obama's Failed State of the Union (tags)
Obama
On The Many Ways We Deal With Rapists (tags)
‎"When I first started out as a rape crisis advocate I did not think there was any hope for justice beyond reporting to the police, and even though I could criticize them as an institution for evils like violence and corruption, I figured they would still help a victim in need. I was proven horribly wrong enough times that I had to change my position. My rage and disappointment and disgust required me to change my position."
Syria
Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism (tags)
media
FUNDAMENTALISM GROWS IN THE USA (tags)
Bad times for Americans, good times for all other people.
Grim 2012 Economic Outlook (tags)
class war
Russian v. US Elections (tags)
elections
Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America (tags)
class war
class war
America's Weak Jobs Report (tags)
class war
Bailouts, Bondage and Political Bankruptcy (tags)
class war
Another New York Bomb Plot: Real or Fake? (tags)
police state
America's Media War on Syria (tags)
Syria
anti-war
America's Media War on Iran (tags)
Iran
The One Percent Turns Class War into Generational War (tags)
The cost of making social security solvent for 75 years amounts to 0.58% of the GDP. The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars amount to three times as much. The cost of transferring wealth to the top 1% over the past thirty years is 6% of the GDP or 10 times as much as social security cost.
The Shortwave Report 11/04 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and the Voice of Russia.
Libya
The Shortwave Report 10/21 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Spanish National Radio.
Major Media Liars Never Quit (tags)
media
Ongoing Israeli Human Rights Abuses (tags)
Palestine
economy
New York Times Bashes Outspoken World Leaders (tags)
media
New York Times: Distorting and Suppressing Truth for Power (tags)
media
Palestine's Rocky Road to Statehood (tags)
Palestine
New York Times: Railing Against Palestinian Statehood (tags)
media
anti-war
Libya: It Ain't Over Till It's Over (tags)
anti-war
New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine (tags)
media lies
Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports (tags)
media
Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya (tags)
anti-war
Netanyahu Spurns Social Justice Demands (tags)
class war
class war
New York Times Disinformation, Denial and Suppressing Vital Truths (tags)
media lies
New York Times Support for Imperial Wars (tags)
corrupt media
Allison's Invention "Sweet and Vicious," EP Release (tags)
Allison's Invention Brings Wonderland to Los Angeles: EP Release at Room 5 on August 20th
economy
New York Times Opposition to Palestinian Self-Determination (tags)
Palestine
When Getting Outpaced, Just Say We Won (tags)
If you ever find yourself in a position where you are targeted for harassment at your workplace, school or any other place and choose to stick things out, it may be helpful at times to read what others have to say about their experiences; their stories and the like. No matter how seemingly similar or dissimilar they may or may not appear at first, listen to or read it if possible. There may be bits and pieces to connect with or integrate into your own survival toolbox and sets of strategies for survival. They may not display immediately obvious applications to your situation, but later on could open up as things that are helpful with regards to implementing towards your own survival experience.
Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal (tags)
class war
America's Media: Dancing Around the Budget Debate Charade (tags)
corporate medias
Political Washington Fiddles While Rome Burns (tags)
class war
Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering (tags)
Murdoch
Sensationalism in America's Media (tags)
media
America's Dirty War on Islam (tags)
persecution
Greek Tragedy Goes Global (tags)
financial terrorism
Chavez: Alive, Well and Recuperating in Caracas (tags)
health
Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda (tags)
media lies
Video: David Sirota - Back to Our Future (tags)
David Sirota is a newspaper columnist, radio host and bestselling author.
The Shortwave Report 06/24 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Spain, Germany, and Russia
Duplicitous Congressional Posturing on Libya (tags)
duplicity
Dismissively Ignoring Hard Times (tags)
depression
US Prepares Iraq Retreat (tags)
US military is paying bribes to Iraqi tribes not to attack its withdrawl.
Justice Scalia and the Dybbuk (tags)
Justice Scalia's oral comments on the Supreme Court's ruling regarding over crowding in Califoria prisons indicates he, just like Judge Hoffman in the Chicago Seven case, has been possessed by a dybbuk.
States Harming People Most Needing Help (tags)
financial terrorism
BTL:Power of U.S.-Israeli Lobby a Major Obstacle to Restart Middle East Peace Talks (tags)
Interview with Howard Friel, independent scholar and co-author of "Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East", conducted by Scott Harris
Alleged Obama - Netanyahu Rift (tags)
imperialism
America's Student Loan Racket: Soaring Default Rates (tags)
student loans
New Zealanders must ?speak out? about omitted human rights or be reduced to mere ?numbers? (tags)
NZ has been taken over by an anti-human rights philosophy, 'discriminatory collectivism, which aims to destroy individual and collective potential yet human rights regards the individual as a person (and spiritually has a 'name').
The South Central Farmers: The Dream Reborn (tags)
The fight for the Farm is on again
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Confirmed (tags)
nuclear disaster
Phantom Jobs and Economic Recovery in America (tags)
fake recovery
The Shortwave Report 05/06 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Japan, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.
Media Lies and Misinformation on Bin Laden (tags)
media lies
US Intervention in Syria (tags)
imperialism
Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo Detainees (tags)
repression
BP Stonewalling Compensation to Gulf Residents (tags)
crime
Remembering Vittorio Arrigoni (tags)
murder
Border and Community Vigilantism (tags)
state terrorism
Sheriff Paul Babeu is a liar? (tags)
You have to shovel the BS if you want to get reelected.
Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New York Times Tradition (tags)
media lies
Fukushima Meltdown Confirmed (tags)
nuclear disaster
The Shortwave Report 04/08 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Japan, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.
Increasing Fukushima Dangers (tags)
nuclear disaster
Obama on Libya: Defending the Indefensible (tags)
naked aggression
Japan's Leaking Water Radiation 100,000 Times Above Normal (tags)
nuclear disaster
Updating Japan's Nuclear Disaster (tags)
nuclear disaster
naked aggression
The wars on Iraq and Libya: Front pages from 2003 and 2011 (tags)
Here is a compilation of newspaper front pages announcing the launch of the war on Iraq (2003) and the war on Libya (2011).
The wars on Iraq and Libya: Front pages from 2003 and 2011 (tags)
Here is a compilation of newspaper front pages announcing the launch of the war on Iraq (2003) and the war on Libya (2011).
No Nukes Monday, March 28 in LA (tags)
No Nuke's around LA--and a way to respond now.
nuclear disaster
Multiples Worse than Chernobyl (tags)
nuclear disaster
Armageddon Scenario in Japan (tags)
nuclear disaster
Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catastrophe (tags)
nuclear disaster
Down with Gaddafi! No to US-NATO intervention! (tags)
"In this time when events seem to be moving so fast, we must maintain focus on the essential meaning and purpose of imperialist efforts. Elites in Washington and other capitals of the west are desperate and working with full dedication to "roll back" the popular advances being made in the Mideast and across North Africa. This article is offered in the effort to support a progressive analysis while the mainstream media works triple time to confuse and obfuscate an understanding of the "full on class war" unfolding before us. No to the budget cuts. No to intervention in Libya. Organize to stand up and fight wall street and the banksters, and ther're "agents" in media and government. Organize in your communities and beyond quickly now. "You have a world to win and only your chains to lose."
Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya (tags)
war
Life Extension With Art Kunkin (tags)
How You Can Stay Alive For Hundreds Of Years with increasing health, wealth, prosperity, happiness and love ….. Speaker: Art Kunkin – Free Admission
imperialism
imperialism
Major Media Promote War on Libya (tags)
Libya
WikiLeaks at the Forefront of 21st-Century Journalism (tags)
"WikiLeaks is filling a void in traditional media, as the level of distrust of the mass media is now at record highs. A recent Gallup Poll found 57 percent of Americans do not trust the media, and a Pew Poll found a record low 29 percent trust the media. There is good reason for distrust. The New York Times helped start the Iraq War by publishing the false weapons of mass destruction story. It recently misled the public about a Blackwater employee arrested in Pakistan by hiding the fact that he worked for the CIA, while reporting that Obama said he was a diplomat. Even the way the Times and the Washington Post reported on WikiLeaks documents showed reason for distrust. WikiLeaks described Iranian long-range missiles that could hit European cities but also reported that Russian intelligence refuted the claim. The Times and the Post evidently made a decision to exaggerate Iranian capability and mislead readers by excluding the Russian intelligence report. The Times admits it provides WikiLeaks documents to the government in advance and excludes material at the request of the government."
Are Value Added Methods (VAM) the new Flat Earth? How long do discredited theories linger? (tags)
Despite overwhelming academic evidence to the contrary, the reactionary anti-community anti-teacher yellow journalists at the Los Angeles Times cling to VAM, which is in essence a form of neo-phrenology.
US Workers: Resurgent or Waging a Rearguard Action? (tags)
worker rights
Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine (tags)
Palestine
imperialism
America's Dire State of the Union (tags)
economic crisis
Obama Embraces Military Commissions Injustice (tags)
rigged trials
Economic Turmoil in 2011 (tags)
economic trouble
justice for Aristide
Roots of Arizona's Violence (tags)
America's culture of violence
Hail to the Thief: The New York Times Defends Mikhail Khodorkovsky (tags)
supporting mega theft
Haiti's Elections: Illegitimately Recounting Fraud (tags)
legitimizing fraud
The U.S. social and economic landscape is rapidly changing. Inequalities in wealth, which began an upward ascent back in the 1980s, accelerated in the 1990s. Now they are flying off the charts, thanks first to the tax cuts ushered in by Bush II and second to Obama’s recent continuation of those tax cuts, plus more, which have the effect of taking from the working class and poor in order to give to the rich.
Corporate Media's Version of Economic Justice (tags)
middle class destructions
Seven Reasons Why the Economy Can't Recover (tags)
As the recession grinds on, politicians in most industrial countries have an incentive to make exaggerated claims about the supposed coming economic recovery. Some say the recession is over. Obama is in the group that claims we're on "the road to recovery,” while other nations can only spot recovery "on the horizon.” Below are seven important social phenomena that point to a more realistic economic and political outlook. 1) Central Banks are Dumbfounded. The usual tricks that U.S. and European central banks use to avoid recessions are long-exhausted. Interest rates cannot get any lower. And because cheap money wasn't working, the printing press was turned up a notch, into what the U.S. federal reserve calls quantitative easing -- injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the world economy, escalating an emerging trade war.
Sanction Congress, Not One Member (tags)
high political crimes
The New York Times Endorses Haiti's Coup d'Etat "Elections" (tags)
a sham election
The New York Times Again Censoring WikiLeaks (tags)
willful New York Times censorship
The New York Times: What Passes for Journalism in the Newspaper of Record (tags)
corporate journalism
The Shortwave Report 11/26 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.
Class Warfare Jeopardizing American Workers' Security (tags)
waging war against vital social benefits
American Style Free Trade (tags)
nothing fair about free trade
homeland prison torture
Footprints In The Sands Of Time (tags)
The largest ever police operation had descended into chaos and confusion in the autumn woods of Lower Saxony, defeated by the courage and determination of peaceful protestors who marched for miles through woods to find places to lie down on the tracks and to scoop out gravel to delay the progress of the "the train from hell."
ERRATA Summary of Value-Added Forum at 89.3 KPCC (tags)
I made one factual error about the Times database, which does not change the injustice of how they treated Rigo.
Summary of KPCC Forum on "Value-Added" Evaluation of Teachers (tags)
This summary of a Public Radio forum takes on special relevance because of the recent tragic death of Rigoberto Ruelas, an excellent teacher who was rated "less effective" by the Los Angeles Times
US Elections: America's Right Turn (tags)
misguided voters
Vigil for Mr. Ruelas, a great teacher, on Monday November 8 (tags)
A vigil for a great teacher whose memory is even now being smeared by the Los Angeles Times.
Union-Bashing and Teacher-Bashing In The Wake of the Rigo Ruelas Tragedy (tags)
We don't know anything about Rigo Ruelas' death, except that we lost an excellent teacher. But some anti-union and anti-teacher bloggers are still defending the Times, pretending they know what kind of teacher Rigo was.
Rigo Ruelas' brother on KPCC (tags)
Rigo, of course, is the teacher who recently died after experiencing job-related stress, including a low rating in the LA Times database of teachers. Supposedly it was suicide. We who worked with him know what a lie the LA Times ranking is.
BUSH JR & KARL ROVE DID NOT PARDON CRIMINALS PRIOR LEAVING WHITE~HOUSE,THEY PARDONED TARP (tags)
A FREE TOM DeLAY WAS $EEN KI$$ING HI$ TARP BAILOUT BUDDIE$ WALLET$ & YELLING FREE AT LA$T ..FREE AT LA$T...
The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence (tags)
Israeli Lobby exposed
Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? (tags)
"But yesterday, WikiLeaks the DoD itself released a letter -- dated August 16 (two days before the Newsweek article) -- which makes clear that WikiLeaks did exactly that which DoD officials denied they did: namely, they asked DoD for help redacting these remaining documents. That letter, written by DoD Legal Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson to WikiLeak's counsel, Timothy Matusheski, explicitly recounts -- contrary to the emphatic denials in Newsweek -- that WikiLeaks' lawyer had contacted the Pentagon and requested help in the "harm minimization" process. The DoD, however, is explicitly refusing to offer any help whatsoever."
The Shortwave Report 08/20 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, Russia, and Germany.
Damage Control: Downplaying WikiLeaks Revelations (tags)
spin can't hide the importance of WikiLeaks documents
Indomitable Spirit, I: The Roads of Liberty. (tags)
Many judges believe, however, that the contracts of the times of Jaime Lerner have to be observed in every way, regardless of the circumstances in which they were signed or of the controversial character of its clauses.
Sri Lanka Crushing of the Tigers, A Lesson for Noynoy Aquino III? (tags)
If the Aquino administration is to deliver on its promise to crush the decades-long insurgencies in the Philippines by 2013, it might be worthwhile to study Sri Lanka’s success in defeating terrorism. On July 3, newly appointed military Chief of Staff Ricardo David Jr. said the Aquino government hopes to crush the communist New People’s Army and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front by 2013. Three years may appear overly ambitious given the experience of former President Gloria Arroyo in 2006, when her government vowed—but failed—to end the twin insurgencies before her term ended on June 30.
Misery and Despair Plague Haitians (tags)
endless Haitian misery
Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War (tags)
the illegal, lost Afghan war
Illinois: A State in Crisis (tags)
Illinois a microcosm of America
US Media's Pro-Israeli Bias: Response to the Freedom Flotilla Slaughter (tags)
appalling major media coverage
The Rift between Teachers and Democrats Widens (tags)
The corporate media is brutally honest on rare occasions. Take for example a recent article in The New York Times Magazine, titled The Teachers’ Union’s Last Stand (05-23-10). The title itself is surprisingly sincere, since it admits that the nation’s teachers are being targeted for attack by the Obama Administration, through his “Race to the Top” education reform. And although the article has an inherently corporate bias, it contains many revelations that have been otherwise ignored in the mainstream media.
The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin incident (tags)
"Defense Ministry officials added that they had not detected any North Korean submarines in the area at the time of the incident. (4) According to Lee, “We didn’t detect any movement by North Korean submarines near” the area where the Cheonan went down."
"America's current dependence on energy imports and its rising levels of indebtedness due to the pursuit of wars of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure a position of advantage in the competition for access to the energy resources of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf..."
Massacre in Thailand: Obama's Bloody Hands (tags)
When the White House is quiet as protestors are butchered in the streets of Bangkok Thailand, suspicions are raised. Silence often equals complicacy. One can only imagine what the U.S.’ response would be to a Venezuelan government slaughter: the U.S. media and Obama would loudly condemn such an act, in contrast to the muted response to Thailand’s blood bath. The history of U.S.-Thailand relations explains why. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. used Thailand as one of the main “anti-communist” bulwarks in an area that included China, Vietnam, Burma, and other countries that were challenging capitalism.
Using Alleged Terrorism to Escalate Wars and Homeland Repression (tags)
NY bomb incident may unleash a wave of homeland repression
LA Anti-Nazi Protest is a Civil Rights Victory (tags)
Protest of National Socialist Movement draws a broad diverse crowd. Eyewitness account of confrontation with 2 men.
Harmful Effects of Prolonged Isolated Confinement (tags)
It crushes the human spirit
Turkey’s Henchmen: Mass Media Butcher the Armenian Genocide (tags)
Pity about the dead miners (tags)
Upper Big Branch Miners get Don Blankenship’s prayers. And his criminal neglect of safety measures at the mine. The miners have to sacrifice their lives for their livelihood.
Obamacare's Passage: A Full-Scale Retreat (tags)
a scheme to ration care and enrich corporate providers
The business sector of the U.S. — particularly the giant corporations that dominate our economy — literally regard themselves as above the law. Not only do they pay millions of dollars in legal bribes to politicians under the guise of “campaign contributions” to gain legislation that makes them BILLIONS in additional profits, they merrily disregard existing laws on issues ranging from labor to the environment to health and safety and paying their taxes. And a U.S. population brainwashed by decades of Right-wing propaganda extolling the private sector and the “free market” as good, efficient and honest — and damning the public sector as ineffective and hopelessly corrupt — has led most Americans to see government, not corporations, as their real enemy.
TROY DAVIS & MUMIA ABU-JAMAL PLEASE REMEMBER ~ JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF ALSO HAD 2 DEAL WITH ~ (tags)
OUR U.S.CONGRESS HAS DOCUMENTED OUR UNJUST AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND WE STILL HAVE CERTAIN AMERICANS EVEN TODAY WANTING TO RUN THE RISK OF EXECUTING EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT CITIZENS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE REST OF US IN THE NAME OF THEIR SO CALLED JUSTICE.
Greed, the Corrupt System and Shadow Banking (tags)
A sudden change of thought patterns has occurred. For thirty years, the dogmas were in effect: trust in the self-healing powers of the market, the sleek state is the best of all possible states and economic policy will be unnecessary if the central banks fights inflation.
The Democrats are Coming After Social Security (tags)
It’s official: the Democrats are coming after Social Security and Medicare. How refreshing that all the backroom scheming and political conspiring is finally out in the open. Before, the corporate elite had been having this conversation in private, via right-wing think tanks and business journals. Now, mainstream media is promoting these ideas, including the Democrat’s media mouthpiece — The New York Times. In a three-page editorial, entitled The Truth about the Deficit, The New York Times gives its solution to the country’s debt problems. The main idea is summed up here:
Obama Provokes War Against Iran and China (tags)
The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China that it must support serious economic sanctions against Iran (an act of war). Clinton said: “China will be under a lot of pressure to recognize the destabilizing effect that a nuclear-armed Iran would have, from which they receive a significant percentage of their oil supply.” The implication here is that China will be cut off from a major energy source if they do not support U.S. foreign policy — this, too, would equal an act of war.
This is a profoundly disturbing article series about elder care. As there is no specific category for Elder Care I think based on this one should be created. LA elder care issues need to be addressed.
SENATOR WEBB~ NOW THAT THE U.S.CONGRESS HAS DOCUMENTED OUR UNJUST AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM (tags)
SENATOR WEBB, NOW THAT OUR U.S.CONGRESS HAS DOCUMENTED OUR UNJUST U.S JUDICIAL SYSTEM,WHERE & WHEN CAN WE WATCH THESE POSSIBLE FALSE EXECUTIONS?
BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN 3rd WORLD COUNTRIES & IN THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ? (tags)
TROY DAVIS & MUMIA ABU ~JAMAL ~ ARE HAVING PRAYERS FOR JUSTICE SAID FOR THEM WORLD~WIDE ..WE CAN ALL ONLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT EVERYONE IN OUR U.S.CONGRESS THAT KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS HOW UNJUST OUR U.S JUDICIAL SYSTEM CAN BE WITH OUR POORER AMERICANS,BECOMES ACTIVE IN MAKING SURE THAT TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA AND MUMIA ABU~JAMAL OF PENNSYLVANIA RECEIVE FAIR AND JUST TRIALS BEFORE ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE EXECUTIONS TAKE PLACE.
UCLA increases parking fees some more (tags)
UCLA has instituted a $3/ parking fee on Disabled Placard holders everywhere on campus after years of following Calif State free parking for legitimate blue zoned areas, starts Jan 1, 2010, but.....
Obama's expanded war agenda
Xmas still remains an old-styled story of kindness (tags)
Xmas can be seen as other than in our today's mind views....as older-images of Santa give other meaning and value to what only a few could own, even before... but the IMAGE creates positive meanings even now.
A Surge in Demands on Government for Jobs (tags)
Thanks to the government bailout, bankers and brokers are now self-righteously pocketing their record bonuses, reassured by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that they are doing “God’s work” (The New York Times, November 17, 2009). There is no humility in these quarters. Yet working people continue to be battered by relentlessly rising unemployment, caused by an economic crisis they had no part in creating. Officially the rate stands at 10.2 percent with the unofficial rate hovering around 17.5 percent, since it also includes part-time workers wanting full-time work and those who are discouraged and no longer looking for work. Both statistics are on the verge of rising.
Health Bill Ignores Industrial Health Harms (tags)
Health care bill, now in hands of the Senate, ignores every industrial threat and harm to health. It finds that people's behavior is the biggest threat. Could this be because all Senators are economically-linked to health-harming industries, AND their insurers and investors? Sworn and public-paid Congress members wouldn't go AWOL on their solemn oaths and duties to the people, would they? If it were not for people, there would be no Health Crisis.
MESSAGE TO NEW YORK TIMES (tags)
Journalist that speaks that likes deserves to listen what doesn't want.
Media Disseminated Myths about Obamacare (tags)
lies and deceit about health care reform
Fort Hood Tragedy Sparks Islamophobic Response (tags)
shameful media response
Obama is a sociopath; it's transparent, but, not personal (tags)
Obama is a sociopath, but that shouldn’t shock anyone. He’s a U.S. President, and Commander-in-Chief of the largest, most lethal arsenal in history, which could destroy the world many times over, and, with a budget many times the size of the next 10 national military budgets combined. Ipso facto, a sociopath. But, it's nothing personal.
Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism (tags)
state of today's major media
The five trillion that the "debt" has swallowed (tags)
Look, five trillion reais equals 35 times the total sales of Brazilian automobile industry in 2008, with exports, including to this also results for the agricultural machinery.
The leading horse is white The second horse is red The third one is a black The last one is a green "The four Horsemen" by Aphrodites Child
New York Times report.
The Shortwave Report 09/25 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Wall Street Under Obama: Bigger and Riskier (tags)
After the financial levees broke and the crumbling banks ushered in the economic crisis, angry people clamored for drastic change in the financial system. Obama reflected these feelings well, at times using radical rhetoric to denounce the banking titans. What he promised was deep regulatory change so that such a crisis “would never happen again.” Like every other promise of substance, Obama’s pledge to “rein in” the banks has fallen by the wayside; the well-timed rhetoric smoothed over public tensions and now business is back to usual. The New York Times remarks:
Combat troops to replace support troops in Afghanistan as Obama’s war escalates (tags)
The Los Angeles Times reports on September 2nd that the Pentagon is planning on replacing up to 14,000 U.S. “support” troops in Afghanistan with “combat” troops (see http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/afghanistan/la-fg-afghan-troops2-2009sep02,0,6170770.story). The Times reports the support units will be replaced by "trigger-pullers,” according to Department of Defense (DOD) officials.
America's Tortured Past (tags)
America's sordid legacy
One Nation, Two National Economies (tags)
Max Fraad Wolff is an Economist in NYC,
7/27: Open Letters from China Cyber Activists Against CNN media bias on Urumqi (tags)
Greeting from Hong Kong, China, I am currently at my last week of China-U.S. bi-national solidarity trip and forwarding you the request from influential Chinese cyber activists from Beijing, China call anti-CNN.com and their two open letters against New York Times and the Congress about their China bias/bashing against the recent July 5th riots at Urumqi Separatist Riot That Killed 190 civilians....
The Significance of Washington's Coup Attempt in Honduras (tags)
There should be no doubt about the U.S. decisive role behind the now-crumbling military coup in Honduras. As commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, the blame for this intervention lies solely on President Obama. The White House, however, would like you to believe that they attempted to convince the Honduran military not to intervene. Rubbish.
BTL:Media Watch Group: New York Times Acts as Propagandist for Pentagon on Danger Posed by (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Iran's Coming Revolution: For Civil Rights or Beyond? (tags)
Simplifying the events in Iran as yet another attempt at a U.S. financed “color revolution” is shortsighted, to say the least. But this is the shallow position many on the left are taking. Fortunately, millions of people partaking in mass demonstrations cannot be reduced to “mere puppets” of Uncle Sam — they have aspirations of their own and ways to achieve them. It is possible that the U.S. played a role in the events leading up to the massive protests in Iran, since the U.S.-sponsored color revolution formula is well known: a pro-western opposition candidate creates political instability — usually around election time — and uses the demonstrators who support them, who are funneled money through the C.I.A., to help topple the existing regime.
On the 148th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal: To Rebel is justified (tags)
“There are no tyrants if there are no slaves” We are one with the Filipino people in commemoration of the 148th birth anniversary of the great Filipino patriot, Dr. Jose P. Rizal. His birth anniversary is significant indeed in the turbulent times the nation is facing. Our situation hardly changed. This time, we are not under a colonial Spanish masters but under the tyranny of a local despot named Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo who serves at the pleasure of her US imperialist masters. Instead of the dreaded Spanish Guardia Civil, we have the obedient Armed Forces and the PNP that wrecked havoc on the people.
Economic Crisis and the Crisis of Neoliberal Ideology (tags)
The crisis has his origins in the "real" economy. Inequality is the ideological motor of neoliberfalism. German president Kohler described the financial markets as a monster. The metaphor has changed from market as rational subject to monster.
Wall Street Ends Hope for Homeowners Via Congress (tags)
As if the bank bailouts weren’t proof enough that Wall Street owned Congress. History will likely show that these bailouts involved the largest transfer of wealth ever — from the working class to that small group of billionaires who own the corporations. This fact is recognized by most people now and is such common knowledge that even the mainstream media feels comfortable discussing it…matter-of-factly.
LA Times Misses Mark - By a Mile - About RVs in Venice (tags)
Once again the LA Times misses the mark - big time - regarding the Venice RV situation
Los Angeles Propostion 8 Court Decisions Evening Protests Photo Essay (tags)
A Photo Essay of The Proposition 8 Court Decision Protests that occurred in West Los Angeles and Hollywood on May 22, 2009
ICRC's Damning Expose of US Torture (tags)
torture remains policy
Scahill: President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February? (tags)
For those already outraged at the AIG bonus scandal, here is a fact that should add more fuel to the fire: The Obama administration has paid the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater nearly $70 million to operate in Iraq and, according to The Washington Times, may keep the company on the payroll months past the official expiration of its Iraq contract in May. I reviewed Blackwater's recent transactions with the Obama State Department and discovered a $45 million payment to Blackwater on February 4, 2009 for "protective services-Iraq." It is described as a "funding action only." Here is the interesting part: The estimated "Ultimate Completion Date" is 5/07/2011.
The California Budget and Class War (tags)
On February 19, the California legislature, after weeks of wrangling, passed a special budget to address the historically high $42 billion deficit. It represents an unadulterated washout for working people who are attacked on almost every front by the Democratic Party, which controls a broad majority in the legislature.
Obama's Bank Bailout: Bush's Plan Resurrected (tags)
To reintroduce an unpopular idea by a different name is a classic trick of politicians. Obama has done precisely this in unveiling his bank bailout plan. In a desperate attempt to distance himself from Bush, the Obama administration has added some complicated economic terms packaged into a system he simply calls the “bad bank.” The essence of the plan, however, is exactly what Bush originally proposed.
New York Times - Children Die in Aids Drug Trials, but the Drugs are Fine, Fine, Fine (tags)
The Guinea Pig Kids story of foster children being used in AIDS drug trials continues
The world today is undeniably chaotic — war, abject poverty, and unimaginable wealth exist side by side. In an attempt to explain the current social turmoil, some have resorted to religion and apocalypse, while others place the blame on the few bad apples that held positions of power as the economy slid into destitution. And then there are those who blame conspiracy, immigrants, or a society-wide lack of morality. All of the above explanations seem to be missing a crucial ingredient. A simple observation should be central to any explanation of the current economic crisis: There are huge surpluses (or overproduction) of houses, cars, food stuffs, and many other products that millions of people desperately need, but cannot afford to buy. This is the essence of the problem.
Why Bailing Out Banks Doesn't Work (tags)
The New York Times recently posed an excellent question: “Why save banks if they won’t lend?” (January 19, 2009) Before the first $350 billion “installment” of the bailout, we were told that the money was needed to “unfreeze” the credit markets, meaning that banks would again be willing to lend businesses the money they needed to continue doing business. Despite hugely popular opposition, the bailout proceeded, and absolutely nothing changed.
Bob Herbert the African-American New York Times columnist has just published a column in the New York Times called "Zimbabwe" in which he claims that Zimbabwe it is in a total mess and that it's all the president of Zimbabwe's fault.
US/Israel: Expanding war into Egypt, Attempt to Overthrow Gaza Gov't & Bomb Iran (tags)
We need hundreds of thousands on the streets of every city in this country if we are to stop the US/Israel war machine. The open escalation of the war in the Middle East by US/Israel is continuing, with invasions of Egyptian airspace and bombing of Egyptian border towns, increasing Israeli military forces for an obvious attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government in Gaza, and an increase in plans to attack Iran.
American Capita-Socialism (tags)
Corruption is a Way of Life in America Who is to blame?
Jeremy Scahill: This (Old) News Just In... Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation (tags)
The New York Times is reporting about an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing his recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my commanders" as Obama prepares to assume actual command of US forces. "At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements this week from Mr. Obama and his national security team has been akin to the senior officer corps' letting out its collective breath," the Times reported. "The words sounded to them like the new president would take a measured approach on the question of troop levels."
The Bailout Intensifies (tags)
Even through its muffled language, it was obvious that the typically non-alarmist New York Times was having trouble digesting the latest government announcements. On November 26, the Treasury and Fed revealed it would spend 800 billion more tax dollars towards new “lending” programs. That day, the Times concluded that the government was “sending a message that they will print as much money as needed to revive the crippled banking system.”[!] Later in the article we learn that “the government has assumed at least $7 trillion [!!] in direct and indirect financial obligations in the form of Wall Street bailouts, emergency lending and government guarantees on bank deposits, inter-bank loans and home mortgages.” The term “blank check” doesn’t begin to describe the vast amounts being tossed about.
Media Response to Venezuelan elections (tags)
one-sided and inaccurate as usual
GM, The NY Times, & Marxism 101 (tags)
As Socialists, we are consistently asked to present our ideas in a clearer, easier to understand manner. To achieve this goal, I’ll enlist the help of former Governor of Massachusetts and candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, who appeared in the New York Times Op-Ed section on Nov. 19th. Romney’s piece, entitled “Let Detroit Go Broke,” laid bare the intent behind the angry rhetoric used by politicians against the proposed bailout for the “Big Three” automakers. Whereas the giant Wall Street banks received over 1 trillion dollars — so far— without barely having to ask, an industry that actually produces something has to beg for a handout. Why the difference?
Lurching Toward Gomorrah: More Signs of An Unstoppable Economic Meltdown (tags)
a deepening economic crisis
Reactionary Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe Calls for End of $700 Wall Street Giveaway (tags)
It is said that a stopped clock is right two times a day. That finally happened to Inhofe.
KPFK's hub called Pacifica is eliminating selected staff...why ? (tags)
Pacifica is KPFK's coordinating central source, and it's recent Executive Director has ALSO been eliminated....what is going on ??? Who decides who stays and who goes? Who is benefitting from these firings? And why does KPFK keep silent about it ?
The Age of Austerity Dawns (tags)
The burst bubble of the New Economy should have been understood as a warning. Then as today, wishful thinking and greed blocked the view to reality. Recessions offer a period of welcome recovery. Losing the hectic turbo-capitalism is not really a great loss.
Rahm Emanuel: Face of Change? (tags)
A formal announcement by Obama of his chief-of-staff pick is expected this week. The name of former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, an early and ardent Obama backer, has long been high of the list of prospects. So, too, has that of Emanuel, although his divided loyalties--he was a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and a congressman from Obama's hometown of Chicago--sidelined him during the Democratic primary campaign season.
DAMAYAN PRE-X Mas Activities (tags)
/ Strengthen our mutual support through expanding and consolidating our organization // Annual board election and annual membership meeting // Holiday dinner, music and dancing to have fun and build community despite the hard times //
Does America Really Need Its Own Holocaust? (tags)
Where are we heading with all this? Will America be satisfied with nothing less than a holocaust perpetrated against anyone who has violated its sexual norms? It seems unthinkable that people who consider themselves progressives should be silent on this issue, and should even, at times, be in the forefront of those who are invested in continuing to ratchet up the sex abuse panic.
The October Surprise - Global Panic (tags)
It's not over.
GREEDY U.S.Banks & Real Estate Cos."Created" this Financial Apocalypse!!! (tags)
In fact the "corruption and blatant greed" of big American banks and real estate companies precipitated today's financial crisis!
Both candidates promise permanent imperial wars.
SEIU Pres Stern's Hand Picked CA Operative Investigated For Rigging Elections-Cover-up (tags)
The hand picked political operative of SEIU President Tyrone Freeman has been charged with rigging the recent elections of his 160,000 member local. There is also evidence that SEIU Pres Andy Stern for six years has been covering up charges of corruption by Freeman. This implicates Stern in organizing a corrupt convention, illegally manipulating the votes and being involved in covering up corrupt officials. The International is also involved in a raid on the independent Puerto Rican teachers union FMPR which is labor imperialism.
EPCC: Tyrone Freeman Have To Answer for his Actions (tags)
The Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) express deep outrage over the Los Angeles investigative report of the Los Angeles Times that shows that Tyrone Freeman, a known protégé of SEIU International head Andy Stern have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars( $ 404, 510) to firms owned by Freeman’s wife and in-laws. As the organization that religiously followed the union struggle between UHW-West and the SEIU international, the LA Times article which detailed allegations of corruption within SEIU Local 6434 ,the Southern California Long Term Care Local- the EPCC have no doubt that Stern and Ana Burger had knowledge of the outrageous happenings in the Tyrone Freeman’s free-wheeling and dealings.
EPCC: TYRONE FREEMAN HAS TO GO (tags)
The Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) express deep outrage over the Los Angeles investigative report of the Los Angeles Times that shows that Tyrone Freeman, a known protégé of SIEU International head Andy Stern have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars( $ 404, 510) to firms owned by Freeman’s wife and in-laws. As the organization that religiously followed the union struggle between UHW-West and the SEIU international, the LA Times article which detailed allegations of corruption within SEIU Local 6334,the Southern California Long Term Care Local , the EPCC have no doubt that Stern and Ana Burger had knowledge of the outrageous happenings in the Tyrone Freeman’s free-wheeling and dealings!
The Shortwave Report 7/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
BBC should not lie about Zimbabwe (tags)
CAN the BBC tell the truth about Zimbabwe when its senior managers are appointed by the United Kingdom government and will they be fired if they step out of line and become realistic about Zimbabwe? Along with others like the New York Times, Sky News and CNN, the broadcaster is notably egregious, given its reputation that's now decidedly undeserved.
Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority" (tags)
Advancing disruptive social protests for change.
Disturbing Stirrings - Ratcheting Up For War On Iran (tags)
Worrisome signs resurfacing.
Week of Truth - April 16 - April 22, 2008 (tags)
There is a concerted effort underway to break 9/11 Truth into the National Dialogue by pushing a novel- The Shell Game to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list.
LA Time Opinion Piece Sells Tibet Down the River (tags)
LA Times Columnist Tim Rutten did a hatchet job on Tibetan human rights struggle with his April 9 Op Ed in which he claims that protests don't do any good and implies we should just let the tyrants have their Olympics of Barbarism unopposed.
The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez (tags)
NYT vilification of Hugo Chavez
El Paso Journal Newspaper (tags)
El Paso readers and the one million or so Juarez residents just across the Rio Grande River which marked the border between the Twin cities, the two countries and three states Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua Mexico. Which makes it the largest international city in the US.
LA TIMES slants to O-bias-to-bama (tags)
LA Times article slanted too cleverly for one candidate, not honest reporting here...again ?
Wikileaks.org Shut Down by Government (tags)
Wikileaks.org shut down by government, at behest of bank in Cayman Islands.
Messiah Barak Mohammed Obama: Product Of Polygamy (tags)
obama is just israel, testings its mind control over US citizens...they have bought off the lazy and the stupid and the weak, so they know that mind control is in place, and will remain so until their paper money tanks, which might be this week, or next, but they want to see if they can keep their middle eastern butt-think in place, where they will remain forever Gods chosen people. Har.
Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire (tags)
Murdock media lies and deceit.
Thur Night: Iraq Vets Invite Antiwar Activists to Protest Outside Dem Debate (tags)
Join Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out The World will be Watching.... Help Make the Anti-war Voice Heard... The War Is Still The Issue: Protest Outside the CNN-Politico-LA Times Democratic Debate WHEN: Thurs. Jan 31- 5pm- 7pm WHERE: Outside the Democratic CNN-Politico-LA Times Presidential Debate in Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028 (At Hollywood & Highland Metro Red Line stop)
9/11 Truth Explosion: N.Y. Times Best Selling Author of “The Shell Game” (tags)
“. . . they [the majority of Americans] shall come to realize what I now realize… that the 9/11 Truth Movement are the real patriots in 21st century America!" -- Steve Alten, New York Times Best Selling Novelist (author of “The Shell Game”) SEE: THE SHELL GAME TRAILER ON 911 COVER UP: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OioYWUmRcuw In the 9/11 truth movement we have seen heroes step forward and risk their livelihoods, their reputations . . . everything, in the name of truth. Today another hero has stepped forward to put it all on the line for truth. A New York Times best selling author has taken the big leap, and written a scalding truth telling novel, that can change everything. PLEASE HELP HIM HELP US, HELP 9/11 TRUTH, HELP AMERICA!!
The Minutemen are “benevolently” giving back! So they think. According to LA Times’ Richard Marosi, the Minutemen were recently approved by the California Transportation Department to adopt a two mile stretch of the 5 Freeway near San Clemente, CA
The Shortwave Report 01/04/08 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez (tags)
Relentless media bashing of Hugo Chavez.
Putting the NY Times Out of Business (tags)
Proposal to replace ALL corrupt media I have posted a proposal on the Randi Rhodes show forum for replacing our current media with a new, sustainable media that facilitates the selection of "filtering agents". You can think of these as honest gatekeepers that YOU trust - and that keep out trivial information, rather than very important information that groups with economic and other hidden agendas prefer to hide from you. Broadband access is now up to 42% in the US, so it is quite possible to target TELEVISION, which is how about 48% of Americans get 30+ minutes of news per day (as opposed to only about 9% over the internet). See http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=282
Racism in Italy against Gypsies: a New Holocaust (tags)
Human Rights Watch has brought to the attention of the international community the racism gypsies are being subjected to in Italy. Write me to subscribe the Campaign against the persecution of Gypsy People in Italy: roberto.malini@annesdoor.com
US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan (tags)
In the midst of public statements of support for “democracy” in Pakistan and the recent visit to Islamabad by the American envoy John Negroponte, Washington is quietly preparing for a stepped-up military intervention in the crisis-ridden country. According to the New York Times Monday, plans have been drawn up by the US military’s Special Operations Command for deploying Special Forces troops in Pakistan’s frontier regions for the purpose of training indigenous militias to combat forces aligned with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Citing unnamed military officials, the newspaper reports that the proposal would “expand the presence of military trainers in Pakistan, directly finance a separate tribal paramilitary force that until now has proved largely ineffective and pay militias that agreed to fight Al Qaeda and foreign extremists.”
11/20/07 Transgender Day of Remembrance (tags)
We encourage activists, community members, and people who are opposed to violence based on any physical characteristics to join us.
U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq (tags)
News from the 4th Reich military forces: According to Associated Press, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of bombs dropped on Iraq during the first six months of 2007 over the same period in 2006. More than 30 tons of those have been cluster weapons, which take an especially heavy toll on civilians. Balad, which currently conducts 10,000 air operations a week, is strengthening runways to handle the increase in air activity.
Israel Prepares for Nuclear Strike on Iran (tags)
With no alternative but to fight fire with fire, the Israel Air Force is training for a tactical nuclear strike on Iranian nuclear production facilities.
More Lost Weapons in Iraq (tags)
By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African security guards and even American contractors. “This was the craziest thing in the world,” said John Tisdale, a retired Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent warehouse. “They were taking weapons away by the truckload.”
Fascist Rock Star Singing in LA Tonight (tags)
A top Croatian rock star whose concerts are a venue for indoctrinating in clerical-fascism is in LA tonight. In song, "Alas, My people," he sings that 'antichrists' and masons (fascism-speak for 'Jews') and communists plot to destroy Catholic Croats. The "Protocols of Zion" set to music.
Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported (tags)
There has been a glaring omission in the U.S. media presentation of the Darfur tragedy. The compassion demonstrated, mostly in words, until recently, has not been accompanied by a recognition of U.S. complicity, or at least involvement, in the war which has led to the enormous suffering and loss of life that has been taking place in Darfur for many years. In 1978 oil was discovered in Southern Sudan. Rebellious war began five years later and was led by John Garang, who had taken military training at infamous Fort Benning, Georgia.
Great Britain:Ex PM Tony B liar and Prince Harry Defame Princess Diana (tags)
There's room at the top they are telling you still, But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, If you want to be like the folks on the hill, A working class hero is something to be. A working class hero is something to be. If you want to be a hero well just follow me, - John Lennon
The Coupon Clippers Get A History Lesson From One Of Their Own (tags)
Bourgeois theoreticians take measures to assure their class that the present crisis will pass. "Do not panic" is the message. Good times will return and the robbery can go on. Time for a history lesson.
The real conditions on the ground in Iraq
Tom Hayden receives first-ever Los Angeles Free Press Lifetime Dedication Award (tags)
Tom Hayden receives first-ever Los Angeles Free Press Lifetime Dedication Award
Tom Hayden is given the Los Angeles Free Press Lifetime Dedication Award (tags)
The New York Times book review has said; Hayden is "the single greatest figure of the 1960s student movement.”; Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent of The Atlantic has written "Tom Hayden changed America"; Forty years later he was described as "the conscience of the Senate" by the political columnist of the Sacramento Bee; When he retired in 2000 after eighteen years, including chairing the committees on higher education, labor and environment, he received the longest farewell of any legislator in memory, according to the Los Angeles Times; "His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades, He is our Everyman, he is us." – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Reinventing A War Criminal (tags)
Reinventing Tony Blair as a Trojan horse peacenik.
The Record of the Newspaper of Record (tags)
Exposing the New York Times' shameless reporting on Venezuela.
"Democratic" Greek police caught on video, torturing detainees (tags)
ATHENS: Police torturers remain unpunished
Media Courtesans Take their Bows (tags)
Corporate Media gives itself a standing ovation on UN World Press Freedom Day
The dismal state of the corporate print media.
Class Action Lawsuit Filed For May Day Rally (tags)
The National Lawyers Guild, along with attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday on behalf of the community groups who organized a May Day immigrants rights rally at MacArthur Park in the city’s heavily Latino immigrant community.
Quicksilver Times: a study in the infiltration and manipulation of alternative media (tags)
Some things change, some don't.
The Zell[ing] Out of the Baltimore Sun (tags)
Sam Zell, a multibillionaire and “committed Zionist,” will soon gain control of the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, and 23 TV stations. Zell, an AIPAC supporter, has promised he won’t interfere with the news sections of any of the media outlets. I think he’s another Mortimer B. Zuckerman of the NY Daily News, who pushed for the Iraqi War. America--prepare for a “Dark Age!”
To ask for permission
Clinton Wants US Troops in Iraq to Guard Oil (tags)
Hillary Clinton came right out and told the New York Times on 3/14/07 that US troops should stay in Iraq because "it is right in the heart of the oil region." Contrary to the Democrats' cynical belief that we have nowhere else to go, we can and must vote for the only 2 peace parties on the California ballot: Peace & Freedom and the Green Party
L.A. Times - Another Silly Obama Article (tags)
Sunday's Los Angeles Times had yet another silly article about Sen. Barack Obama. This time it was about Obama's "angst" as a kid in an elite prep school in Hawaii. What MSM hokum!
La Cucaracha is back in the LA Times!
La Cucaracha Exed by LA Times (tags)
La Cucuracha comic strip by Lalo Alcaraz has been cancelled by the Los Angeles Times!
China vs globalization: development, conflicts, business and politics (tags)
understand the deeper issues about China and globalization
'No human being is illegal' (tags)
Before the Minutemen 'guarded our border,' there was another group. Twenty-eight years later, the Minutemen became partners with them. This group is known as the KKK.
Glaciers (water supply) Melting 6 X Faster Than '80s (tags)
"They melted on average about 1.6 times faster annually this decade compared with the 1990s, and about six times faster than in the 1980s."
ANSWER Anti-War Contingent at MLK Day Parade (tags)
Photos from the anti-war contingent at the MLK Day parade
The Shortwave Report 1/19/07 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, China, and Russia.
The Coming Attack on Iran (tags)
Is Bush's War Winding Down or Heating Up? The Coming Attack on Iran On January 7 the London Times reported that it has learned from "several Israeli military sources" that "Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons."
Israel leaks it’s plan to nuke Iran (tags)
A report in yesterday’s London-based Sunday Times revealed that the Israeli military has been training to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and other nuclear facilities. Based on several Israeli military sources, the article said two air force squadrons were involved, with the preparations being overseen by air force commander Major General Eliezer Shkedi. Israeli officials were quick to disparage the report. Foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev “formally denied” the claim and restated the official stance that Israeli was committed to a diplomatic solution and supported last month’s UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran. Top government and military figures have repeatedly warned, however, that Israel would not allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
The Diet of Distraction: Not Food for Thought (tags)
This article argues that the "experts" who ask dieters to calorie count, join programs and think constantly about what they eat are not always offering the best advice.
US cancels Balikatan War Exercise in the Philippines, So What? (tags)
The United States has canceled the joint Balikatan war games in the Philippines. US officials said the decision was reached because courts here refused to give in to its demand for the immediate transfer of rape convict Lance Corporal Daniel Smith to American custody. The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP)-USA is not surprised with the U.S Forces Pacific Commander's decision that also stopped "all humanitarian missions and aid" to the Philippines. This form of imperial arrogance is a common reaction of a modern imperialist empire whose was not able get its demand from a lackey client nation. Only the brazen puppets will cower under this form of brinkmanship. But for the Filipino people, they will just shrug it off and say; So what?" AJLPP exclaimed.
Broad-band supplier cooperates with spying in Brazil. (tags)
Three times I complained and the technician support of ( the miracle, not the saint, by now ) decided for telephone, with my aid, asking me to: "initiate, execute cmd, ipconfig, ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew".
That this lot are a bunch of dangerous fascists.
[video] UCLA student shot 5 times with a taser gun by UCLA'S UCPD (tags)
An Iranian-American UCLA student was shot by UCLA'S UCPD November 14th 2006, because he could not show his Student ID. He was shot 5 times with a taser gun. The Student yelled out that he had a medical condition, but the cops kept shooting.
UCLA Student attacked by campus police (tags)
UCLA police go way overboard when a student fails to show his student ID in the library.
Chinese submarine stalks US carrier: report (tags)
A Chinese submarine approached a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times reported Monday.
Fear of the Working Class At Home And Internationally Stirs Some Debate Among the Bankers (tags)
There is growing concern among sections of the capitalist class that the rising opposition to their global offensive and the market will get out of control.
Limiting the Catastrophe (tags)
Leslie Gelb in Time Magazine writes that admission of a defeat in Iraq is not the worst thing but rather serves to minimize the extent According to the Italian La Republica, the pyromaniac is forced to become the firefighter.
Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths? (tags)
The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was posted Wednesday on the web site of the British medical journal, the Lancet.
Gunning Down Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar: Just Another Mother Murdered (tags)
Almost no one bothered to report it. A search of the nation's largest newspapers turned up nothing in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Tampa Tribune, etc.
The Water Question In the Occupied Lands (tags)
Israel steals the Palestinian's water then sells it back to them at 15 times the price the illegal Israeli settlers pay
Bush wants a bloodbath in Baghdad (tags)
Increasingly desperate over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the Bush administration is demanding that the US-installed government in Baghdad support a savage intensification of repression or give way to a dictatorial regime that will.
More drug war propaganda from the Feds on the internet! (tags)
U.S. anti-drug videos hit YouTube
FULL-PAGE AD IN NEW YORK TIMES CALLS FOR OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS TO DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME (tags)
Today, for the second time this month, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for massive protests across the country on OCTOBER 5. The ad reads: 'ENDLESS WARS! TORTURE! KATRINA! THEOCRACY! BRING THIS TO A HALT! We must act now-- The world's future is in our hands."
The Activist Support Circle: Dealing with Activist Fatigue and Other Problems (tags)
Organizers and participants discuss this monthly gathering in Santa Monica.
China UN Ambassador Orders U.S. To Shut Up (tags)
By The Light Of A Burning Bridge -
Files reveal coverup of Vietnam atrocities (tags)
Files reveal coverup of Vietnam atrocities Once-secret Pentagon archive shows that U.S. atrocities in Vietnam were more extensive than previously known.
A new face to Hezbollah's resistance (tags)
"This is not a question of Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah. Neither is it a question of [Hamas leader] Khaled Mishal or Sheikh Osama [bin Laden] or [Hezbollah leader] Hassan Nasrallah. This is a question of do or die. And whoever leads the battle, we will be with them."
Democratic Party leaders rally behind pro-war Senator Lieberman (tags)
Three-term US Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000 and a candidate for the party’s presidential nomination in 2004, is trailing in his bid for renomination in the August 8 Democratic primary in Connecticut. A poll published July 20 showed a four-point lead for Lieberman’s challenger, multi-millionaire businessman Ned Lamont, whose campaign is fueled mainly by anger over the war in Iraq.
9/11 Airplane Impact Time Discrepancies: Smoking Gun - US Gov't Complicity (tags)
author: Craig T. Furlong e-mail:e-mail: cfurlong1@socal.rr.com
A former US Army intelligence and public affairs officer offers a disturbing analysis that the End Times movement has pre-programmed for World War Three, the end that they're praying to bring about. Has this new Jonestown Cult been brainwashed dileberately -- and what does that mean for us all?
Down the Memory Hole-More Mainstream media por-israel Bias (tags)
In the wake of the most serious outbreak of Israeli/Arab violence in years, three leading U.S. papers—the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times—have each strongly editorialized that Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon were solely responsible for sparking violence, and that the Israeli military response was predictable and unavoidable. These editorials ignored recent events that indicate a much more complicated situation.
The New York Times and the war in Lebanon: A cynical defense of US-Israeli war crimes (tags)
In an editorial published Friday, the New York Times weighs in as the liberal voice of American imperialism on the US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon. Under the headline “More Than a Cease-Fire Needed,” the Times repeats the propaganda line of Washington and Jerusalem that Israel is the victim and Hezbollah the aggressor. It lines up with the US and Israel in opposing demands that Israel halt its bombing campaign—an assault so flagrantly in breach of international law and so nakedly directed against civilians that Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, was moved to declare on Wednesday that those “in a position of command and control” could be held personally responsible for war crimes.
A growing number of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders and volunteers are questioning the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in donations collected in the past 15 months, challenging the organization's leadership over financial accountability.
American rushing bombs to Israel to help murder people in Lebanon (tags)
Makes you proud to be an Amerikan! Amerika the worlds number 1 terrorist!!!!! We're #1!! Heil Bush!!
Remembering Michael ZinZun (tags)
Remembering Michael Zinzun
The First Nazi City in America (tags)
Joe Turner's fascistic anti-migrant measure has been adopted by a small town in Pennsylvania, making it, not San Bernardino, the first Nazi city in the nation
‘LIFE & TIMES’ EXAMINES IMMIGRATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (tags)
“Life & Times Immigration Special” will look at the debate over a seven-hundred-mile border fence, the impact of the massive street demonstrations, the anti-immigration measure launched in San Bernardino, what it takes to become legal in the U.S. and the perspective of Blacks and non-Latino immigrants.
Media Non-event of 6/26/2006 (tags)
An important story was buried by the mainstream media last week: the 6/26 Senate Democrats hearing on Pre-Iraq War Intelligence. I offer this analysis of the media non-coverage of that damning (ergo, ignored) event. I hope you find it both enjoyable and informative -- and lament that no one else has done this bit of writing yet! Your servant, CPTMAY
On a fact happened in a Brazilian province.
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: WEEK IN REVIEW (tags)
Commentaries and news from Cheryl Seal Reports, June 23-29
Perhaps the only question is whether the people or corporate elites should regulate and plan. Perhaps businessmen are not the only ones who understand growth and de-velopment. Perhaps profit worship and the self-healing market are myths.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/23/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Spain, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
2000 Election Evidence & the LA Times (tags)
2000 Election Evidence denied by LA Times
KCSN's Martin Perlich booksigning (tags)
KCSN's Martin Perlich booksigning of his bookTHE WILD TIMES at Duttons (Belair), Borders (Northridge) and Skylight books ( E Hollywood)
Middle East Policy Forum in Manhattan Beach (tags)
Marcy Winograd, Congressional Candidate in the 36th District, is joined by authors Gore Vidal and Robert Dreyfuss at a community forum on US Middle East policy
The Man Made Plagues...Rage On! (tags)
In 1992 I walked into the University of North Dakota Library to do some research of Congressional documents. I remember quite well the bitter cold of -40 below 0 and wind chills that would freeze you to the bone with some speed. However this cold is a warm summer day at the beach, in comparison to the documents I found.
Hundreds of Thousands in NY City March Against the War (tags)
AGAIN, corporate media ignores a massive war protest. Hundreds of thousands protested immigration laws, and the corporate media had helicoptors in several cities giving hourly updates to these demonstrations. But two days earlier on April 29 hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of New York City protesting the war in Iraq were given a ten second soundbite of the podium where Cyndee Sheehan and Rev. Jackson stood.
THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS HOLDING GIANT YOUTH GATHERINGS CALLED BATTLECRY (tags)
This is an announcement and an essay which goes into detail about the Battlecry Youth gatherings. G.W. Bush is part of this maniacal cult that promotes wars against Muslim countries, with young "christian soldiers" doing the fighting, laws that take away women's rights to make decisions about their bodies, and other anti-sexual and homophobic ideas...
Journalism 101: LA Times parrots for ExxonMobil/CIA in regards to Bolivia (tags)
The LA Times maintains it's edge as corporate cheerleader.
What the Hell happened at White House Press Dinner? (tags)
Stephen Colbert. A real American.
Lawsuit details AT&T cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans (tags)
A lawsuit underway in a US district court in San Francisco charges telecommunications giant AT&T with violating the privacy of its customers by handing over massive amounts of data to the government. The class action lawsuit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of AT&T customers, is based on documents provided by a former AT&T employee that detail the company’s participation in the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless spying program that was first revealed late last year.
We are a republic; we don't want a king. Laws govern our nation, not men.. America doesn't want a president who believes "I am the law." A coalition of the unwilling is underway who see a breach of the constitu-tion in the monitoring practices.
In 1992 I walked into the University of North Dakota Library to do some research of Congressional documents. I remember quite well the bitter cold of -40 below 0 and wind chills that would freeze you to the bone with some speed. However this cold is a warm summer day at the beach, in comparison to the documents I found.
THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY (tags)
An expose of the US gulag prison system at home.
A Magic So Strong: The South Central Farm Must Live (tags)
This weekend the LA Times issued a deadly editorial attack on the South Central Farm, justifying the destruction of the land and the community, overtly using the theme of "property rights" to do so. Such assessments cannot be allowed to hold sway. Too much is at stake, for all of us.
Why the Farmers Must Win (tags)
In its Saturday editorial, the Los Angeles Times reduced virtually all the civic concerns of the historically neglected South Central to “niceties” and condemned a swath of the district to being a “concrete-and-asphalt” wasteland,“ "a seemingly endless sweep” of “industrial warehouses, packing plants, and junkyards.” It proclaimed that developer Ralph Horowitz must triumph, and the South Central Farm must be razed. The Times was wrong.
Letter to LA Times re: South Central Farm (tags)
Apparently, the L.A. Times is okay with eminent domain when it's used to benefit the L.A. Times itself, but not when it's used to benefit economically disadvantaged workers who've committed the unforgivable act of growing food.
Truth and Deception in the Information War (tags)
With the global news streams, allied and friendly countries as well as the American media and people are disinformed.
Happy Iraq and Yuppie Careers in Iraq (tags)
While the spread of propaganda is prohibited in the US, it returns to the homefront on the roundabout way of foreign publications.. The witty and resilient Chalabi is still indirectly on the Pentagon payroll.
Dubious Evidence against Iran (tags)
Albright assumed that US government circles launched the flasified report in the New York Times to exert political pressure.. Washington knew the information was untrue, the nuclear weapons expert said.
Steve Miller, Bono and Angela Merkel—What An Act (tags)
As US capitalists intensify their offensive, the global club to which they belong meets in Davos with poster boy Bono offering them a cover.
Breaking A Bad Law Over Cuba (tags)
The Right to Travel, The Fight to End the Blockade=Blockaid. Unjust law just waiting to be broken, news from the front.
The Work Society and the Work Religion (tags)
Work is only a part or fragment of life. Where it becomes everything as a steamroller or religion, it leads to idiotism where social questions and reproduction are ignored.
March For Truth NYC '06 (tags)
The phony 'Left wing" media are de facto Bush regime supporters since they refuse to talk about the massive frameup on humanity in the name of the fraudulent "War On Terror". It is time to confront these 'gatekeepers' who keep the reality of 9/11 from going mainstream. Come march for truth in NYC on February 20th to restore law and order to our Republic.
The “Free Market”: The Greatest Terror Of All (tags)
The economic system of production we live in is called capitalism or the free market. We are supposed to be fortunate because we are free to starve to death amidst abundance. This form of social organiztion has not existed for all time and need not exist in the future. The first step in eliminating it is accepting this simple idea.
New York Times sees the US in a Cul-de-Sac (tags)
The leading paper of world capital discovers that the West depends on imported energy.. Gas-saving cars and bio-diesel are ways out.. Sunday's editorial could be a sign of a shift in opinion in the ruling class of the US.
Minutemen Not in Burbank (tags)
In spite of assurances to mainstream media, the minutemen stayed away from Burbank this morning. Counterprotestors braved cold and wet weather to be on hand, just in case.
American Pigs , Wealth disparity
LA Times biased reporting on Haiti (tags)
The Los Angeles Times is providing extremely biased one sided reporting on Haiti. We are asking that students and citizens from across Southern Calfiornia go here http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-comment-foreign,0,4931549.htmlstory Enter in a comment about Carol J. Williams poor reporting. Let the Los Angeles Times know that this kind of biased one sided propaganda is too much.
Time to Dump Bush and Keller (tags)
As an editor, holding a story is as biased and manipulative of public opinion as running one. No credible, honest journalist can make those decisions. If you've got it, you have to run it, and the Times' Keller failed that basic test, proving he's nothing but an administration shill.
Cycorp Most Likely Involved in NSA Spying on Telecommunications (tags)
Cycorp's spy program is identical to that described of the NSA. Does this tell us anything about what Bush was ordering the NSA to do?
Help! Al Qaeda Must Be Everywhere! (tags)
President Bush eliminated the need for warrants for NSA bugging jobs, but when the warrants are as easy to get as they are in the FISA courts, the only reason he’d do that is to keep the taps completely secret. And why would he want to do that?
Katrina’s Aftermath: The Catastrophe Continues (tags)
Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was and still is a social disaster. Katrina and its aftermath is the market at work for you
IMC-Binghamton, Not L.A. Times, Broke Story on DoD Media Scandal (tags)
The breaking story about the U.S. military’s planting of prepackaged stories in foreign media – a “scoop” attributed to the L.A.. Times – has overlooked one critical factor: the Independent Media Center of Greater Binghamton, and not the L.A. Times, was the first media outlet across the globe to report on this propaganda-production endeavor, the brainchild of the U.S. Special Operations Command.
More Proof Republicans do not care about war Veterans (tags)
U.S. Spends Hundred Times More on Illegal Aliens Than on Assisting American Homeless Veterans
Pissed off by Scheer fireing (tags)
The Los Angeles Times fired long-time progressive journalist Robert Scheer, claiming he wasn't fired for ideologies because Scheer covered the Bush regime's treason and crimes against humanity.
LA Times Dumps Liberal Columnist (tags)
Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer was fired on November 11 after nearly 30 years at the paper, the last 13 as one of its most progressive political columnists. In a published statement announcing op-ed page changes (11/10/05), the Times insisted that it is dedicated to "provid[ing] readers with a wide range of voices and perspectives," but in dumping Scheer, the paper has gotten rid of one of the few prominent progressive columnists in the country.
Extraordinary for demonstrators to take to the streets to rally around a journalist (tags)
It's highly unsual, even extraordinary, for demonstrators to take to the streets to rally around a journalist, but that's just what happened this afternoon outside the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times. The cause was the firing last week of veteran columnist Robert Scheer, the last progressive voice on the Times's Op-Ed page.
'LA Times' Readers Protest Scheer Ouster (tags)
Between 200 and 300 people picketed outside the Los Angeles Times Tuesday afternoon to protest the paper's decision to drop liberal columnist Robert Scheer, according to a crowd estimate provided by one of the rally's organizers. The newspaper, however, said there were only about 55 people there.
Hundreds of LA Times Readers Protest Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer (tags)
Hundreds of LA Times Readers Picket Outside Times Building To Protest Controversial Firing of Popular Columnist Robert Scheer Publisher Jeff Johnson Refuses to Schedule Meeting with Delegation of Readers
Readers to Protest Dropping of Scheer Column Tuesday at 'LA Times' (tags)
Los Angeles Times readers upset with the dropping of Robert Scheer's column plan to picket outside the newspaper's building Tuesday at noon. "We think he was fired totally for political reasons," Karen Pomer, a media activist who helped organize the demonstration, told E&P Monday. "Now they don't have anyone who covers national issues in the same way. The Times needs a full spectrum of voices. It's becoming insipid."
TUES NOV. 15: LA Times Readers to Protest Firing of Popular Columnist Scheer (tags)
LA Times Readers/Subscribers to Picket Outside Times Building To Protest Controversial Firing of Popular Columnist Robert Scheer "I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed" -- Robert Scheer, Friday, Nov. 11th
TUES 11/15 NOON: Picket LA Times in Protest of Firing of Columnist Scheer (tags)
Join Peace and Media Activists from Across Los Angeles As We Put the New Publisher on Notice Picket LA Times/Protest the Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer & Limited Coverage of Local Anti-War Movement
Robert Scheer Fired from LA Times (tags)
Who ever thinks the corporate media is liberal is really stupid.
Arafat Death Still a Mystery (tags)
Palestinians continue to wonder how arafat died
News Junkie Scott's Blog (11/8/05) (tags)
SCOTUS to review Guantanamo military tribunals.
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (tags)
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq In conversation with John Powers, Critic at Large for NPR’s Fresh Air
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (tags)
A look at the war in Iraq. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
Revolke Judith Miller's Pulitzer (tags)
Even the Times is saying she has lied and deceived in her reporting on Iraq and al Qaeda. Once that happens, it’s time to look back at her earlier work, including the 2001 articles that won her a Pulitzer.
Judy Miller, the Armstrong Williams of WMD (tags)
Miller did things a journalist should never do. She shilled for a White House disinformation campaign that was promoting an invasion of Iraq, accepted control from the Pentagon, and deceptively misidentified her sources. Yet she hasn’t been fired by her official employer, the NY Times. Was Times senior management in on the game?
TODAY's BUSH ALERT: Roads in the area of 405 Fwy & Sunset Blvd. Closed 4 -8 p.m (tags)
Bush Visits Southland Today, Thursday October 20 Roads in the area of the San Diego (405) Freeway and Sunset Boulevard To Be Closed From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Griffin Seals Case for WTC Demolition, Calls on NY Times to End Coverup (tags)
In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."
"Run Amok" Judith Miller Goes Down in Plames...er, Flames (tags)
The Times own reporters, in a story on her case, exposes her as a liar and a shill for the Bush war machine. Even her colleagues are dissing her.
From an Iraq War Vet in Portland.... (tags)
There are times that I wish that I could wish everything away. Other times, I want to stand naked in front of the entire nation to force them to see what they've done to me. I want people to know what war really is. (Originally posted on the Portland IMC as a comment.)
The New Haitian Revolution: Resistance to U.S. & U.N. Occupation (tags)
". . . Why Haiti has been persecuted for the last 200 years? Because it is an affront to the colonial powers to have slaves rise up and defeat them. It is a bad example. [Applause.] There are a lot of lessons to be learned, and they don't want it ever to happen again. [Applause continues.]" -- Margaret Prescod, Pacifica Radio
CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM (tags)
Every year since 1990, the United Nations publishes its Human Development Report. It contains the most authoritative data on the state of the world. These reports are available online: hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm?type=1. Based on those reports (referred to by year, followed by page), what does our world look like?
What really happened to Summer Lane? (tags)
The door that the Riverside Police Department had shut on the Officer-Involved Shooting of a woman last year, was blown open by a private investigator hired by the police commission.
15,000 at march according to LAPD (tags)
The LA Times article about the march cites a police estimate of 15,000 people, so indymedia should up its figure!
Sinking News Ships: But it's not the Rats Who Will be Leaving (tags)
Three big metro dailies are cutting back on staffing, in another cycle of less reporting, less news, fewer readers and lower profits. At this point, it almost doesn’t matter though—they’ve gotten so bad already.
Dog Bites Man! Roberts Vows "Open Mind"! (tags)
The media have treated Judge Roberts’ Senate hearing platitudes about restraint and having an open mind as if they were divine wisdom—as if, indeed, they meant something.
Bush Declares War on African Americans (Literally) (tags)
Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “This place is going to look like Little SOMALIA,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
Uncontrolled capitalism proved to be a completely wrong track toward the end of the 19th century. The governing church of work does everything so people only have time and strength for two things in life: work and job-hunting. The 30-hour work week could be a life-giving goal.
BOB DYLAN BLOCKED THE BEATLESS FOR 13 CENTURIES (Naughty boy...) (tags)
...Stoned you when you say this is the end... ...stoned you and then you come back again...
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/26/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Our Lady Peace at Viper Room! (tags)
About Our Lady Peace: While studying at the University of Toronto in 1992, vocalist Raine Maida met guitarist Mike Turner (a British expatriate) and the two formed the post-grunge band Our Lady Peace. They later recruited bassist Chris Eacrett and jazz drummer Jeremy Taggart, playing around the area. Signed to Relativity, Our Lady Peace released Naveed, which sparked the modern rock hit "Starseed," in 1995. They toured with fellow Canadian Alanis Morissette later that summer, and earned a cult following. After replacing Eacrett with bassist Duncan Coutts, Clumsy followed in 1997, and two years later Our Lady Peace returned with Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. The new millennium brought another OLP release, 2001's Spiritual Machines, and a sold out promo tour that spring. Shortly thereafter, guitarist Mike Turner left the band due to creative differences and Steve Mazur was brought in to replace him. He and the rest of Our Lady Peace restructed the band's heavy rock sound for the simplistic Gravity, which appeared in June 2002. The band toured throughout Canada and the US in support of the album, and documented the jaunt the following June with Live from Calgary and Edmonton. In addition to the CD, OLP also issued a DVD of the tour. That same month, the band took part in the historic "Concert for Toronto," held at the city's Sky Dome as a way for the city, its citizens, and the nation of Canada to show Toronto's vitality and to quell fears in the wake of the city's bout with the SARS epidemic. In addition to Our Lady Peace, the concert also featured such Canadian superstars as The Tragically Hip and Avril Lavigne. Their new album, “Healthy in Paranoid Times,” the much anticipated follow up to “Gravity” hits stores August 30, 2005 and includes the single “Where are you?”
Robert Floyd of Pearblossom, CA (posts on both the Stormfront and SOS forums under the name Baldy) is a National Vanguard member/white nationalist and regular attendee of SOS rallies (I guess that would make him a member of SOS too). His name was printed in Sunday’s (6/17/05) Los Angeles Times. The National Vanguard is also planning a BP3 (details below)
London Underground Bombing 'Exercises': same time same places? (tags)
Quote - BBC: "At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now."
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/8/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
The Fix is In - American Media Ignore Downing Street Memo (tags)
Over the last month, the American media has studiously avoided a story that has dominated the rest of the world. A leak transcript of a meeting with the British Prime Minister well before the invasion of Iraq showed that the US had decided to go to war even though it had no proof of weapons of mass destruction. Mainstream media argue that there is no news, that the American people already knew that the Bush admistration was mistaken. Conservative talk show hosts continue to deny that there are any problems. In a small, cramped room in the Capitol, Cong. Conyers held hearings on the Downing Street Memo. Ralph Nader, the Green Party and Rep. Maurice Hinchey call for impeachment.
LA TIMES LOVES JOE TURNER (tags)
A Street-Fighter Mentality on Illegal Immigration By Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer As the insults flew and the protest reached a boil, Joseph Turner couldn't help but smile. The 29-year-old head of the upstart Save Our State organization had come to Baldwin Park to pick a fight over illegal immigration. He had led a band of like-minded souls into the heart of the city to protest public art they deemed "seditious and anti-American." Part of a monument at the Metrolink station is inscribed "It was better before they came," interpreted by some as a barb at whites who displaced California's Mexican residents in the 19th century. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-profile27jun27.story
The LA Times prints letter critical of GGPD raid of Theresa Dang's home (tags)
I never thought I would say this, but thanks to The Los Angeles Times, an estimated one million people throughout Southern California have now heard something about the Garden Grove Police Department raid of Theresa Dang's Westminster home last Thursday.
The 'Downing St. Memos' destroyed? Not on your Nelly! (tags)
If one as an investigative journalist wants to stay alive, one way to do it is 'serving' the explosive information in portions. First fifty%, then 25, and the last 25% is a kind of 'life guard': used until a 'case of emergency' erupts, like when the journalist or whistleblower is "suicided".
Iraq: Bush's Watergate? (tags)
The "Downing Street Memo" could be the last straw, or the spark that lights a fire, for an American public fed up with the Iraq war.
Snowed: US (Corporate) Media Ignore climate change (tags)
author: Ross Gelbspan / Mother Jones Jun 11, 2005 12:05 Though global climate change is breaking out all around us, the U.S. news media has remained silent. Not because climate change is a bad story-to the contrary: Conflict is the lifeblood of journalism, and the climate issue is riven with conflict.
The First Amendment, once the steward and protector of our freedom of speech..is being relentlessly reduced to oblivion, a near-forgotten dinosaur.
Economism, Economic Ethics and Donations (tags)
Economism is the great ideology of our time. It claims that (1) resisting the market is impossible and (2) submitting to the market is best for everyone. Both are not true. Embedding the market in principles of useful-ness to life has a priority as an ordering task.
Minutemen vigilantes will deploy "snipers" along the (tags)
Minutemen vigilantes will deploy "snipers" along the
Shocking reports reveal U.S. torture widespread (tags)
This week, Human Rights Watch charged that U.S. FBI agents operating in Pakistan repeatedly interrogated and threatened two U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin who were unlawfully detained and tortured by Pakistani security services. The two were abducted from their Karachi home last August, and released this April without being charged. During eight months of interrogation and torture, they were questioned at least six times by FBI agents, who did nothing to stop the torture — including beatings with whips and rods — or provide consular help. Instead, the two said, the agents threatened to send them to Guantanamo if they did not “confess” to terrorist involvement.
Why Such Drastic Changes Sought by Neo-cons? (tags)
Of course it is the inevitable, looming oil crisis that awaits the US (because of her thirst for oil) that has given this Administration the justification to invade Iraq on the "pack of lies" (1. Honorable George Galloway) that came out of this White House. That, although not justified in many people's minds, is pretty much understood by the rank and file.
Audio: HBO/NBC's JIM LAMPLEY on Election 2004 , "the biggest crime in [our history]&q (tags)
Audio: Exclusive Interview with HBO/NBC's JIM LAMPLEY on his Huffington Post firefight after blogging that Election 2004 was "the biggest crime in the history of the nation!" Plus: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Video/Transcript And Is Bush a Sith Lord? PLUS: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Video/Transcript
surveillance growth in NYC (tags)
graphic in New York Times 22 May 2005
Bush's democratic rhetoric sets the middle east on fire (tags)
Battling the windmills while Iraq burns By RAMZY BAROUD Special to The Japan Times DOHA, Qatar -- Cast aside the nonsensical rhetoric about U.S. President George W. Bush's ostensibly successful efforts to bolster democratic tendencies "sweeping" the Middle East, and you'll discover that the facts are not so rosy, with Iraq remaining the most horrific reminder. Bush seems to reside over an entirely different world reality when he adamantly presents himself as a visionary whose uppermost concerns are freedom and democracy worldwide, with due emphasis on the Middle East.
Googling for Fun Can Be Depressing (tags)
Pick an important story and google it. You’ll find plenty of hits, but f it’s critical of the current administration, odds are you won’t find many hits on corporate media sites—just on alternative and oversease media sites. No wonder the American public is turning away from mainstream purveyors of “news.”
IMPEACHMENT TIME - Palast (tags)
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
The NIH is spending $3,084 on each citizen estimated as having HIV/AIDS Diabetes kills more Americans than 'AIDS' and breast cancer combined, yet the NIH spends only $80 on each diabetic Alzheimer's Disease kills 3.3 times more than 'AIDS', yet the NIH spends only $155 on each patient with Alzheimer's Disease
They have to admit it now: GULF STREAM SLOWING (tags)
author:(London) Times They have found that one of the engines driving the Gulf Stream the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea, has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.
Patriot Act nabs Immigrant Teenagers (tags)
NYPD and FBI arrest two muslin teenaged girls for writing story about suicide bombing.
LA Times Reporter courageously admits that US support for Israel Motivation for 9/11 (tags)
LA Times Reporter courageously admits that US support for Israel Motivation for 9/11
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/15/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.
New York Times Up Bush Down? - (Getting It Wrong Again) (tags)
No Summary
A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival! (tags)
http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm
A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival! (tags)
http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm
China's US Human Rights Report Is Ugly, But It's No "Caricature" (tags)
The New York Times was outraged that China, a human rights outlaw, would criticize America’s human rights record, but the Chinese report is in fact right on target, and should shame all Americans who care about the state of our own rights and freedoms.
Shocked and awed into `freedom' (tags)
Two years after being shocked and awed into `freedom', freedom on the ground is a meaningless concept for large swathes of the Iraqi population. Sunnis and Shiites alike tell Asia Times Online of a brutalization of everyday life.
Saving Schiavo While Burying the Real News (tags)
The corporate media were too busy covering a demonstration by 30 fundamentalists trying to keep Shiavo from meeting her maker to bother cover ing the global and nationwide demonstrations against the U.S. Iraq War.
London Times Says it Garnered 'Clear Evidence' that Syria Assassinated Hariri (tags)
British newspaper has claimed to have found "clear evidence" that Syria assassinated ex-premier Rafik Hariri in an attack that has plunged Lebanon into political chaos.
Former LA Times reporter's book railroaded (tags)
A book by former LA Times reporter Jason Leopold that lays bare the backbones of its author's journey through crime, drug addition, power politics in the newsroom and government and corporate scandal has brought its author head on against the very power politics about which he wrote.
"Progressive" Muslims Union: South African View (tags)
"Last year, three South Africans were invited to be on the Advisory Board of an organisation that was about to be launched in the US, the Progressive Muslims Union of North America. Quite an honour. However, after much reflection, istikharah and many emails, all three – Ebrahim Moosa, Farid Esack and I – declined." Suddenly, scholars who, just a few weeks earlier, had been criticising America’s imperialist role in the world, became Bush advisors. Suddenly, there was a stream of Muslims seeking the road to the White House and Pentagon."
For Israel/Palestine: The Meaning of 'RELATIVE CALM' – LA Times Style (tags)
Over all, I guess what he [THE L.A. TIMES] means is relatively obvious: That he can run whatever he wants, distort whatever he desires, lead with whatever his lies. I guess he means that FACTS don't matter, TRUTH is irrelevant, and deceit the order of the day. I guess he means that Americans are pawns, readers are sheep, and people will just keep swallowing whatever the media choose to dish out. I hope you'll tell him he's wrong: 213-237-5000 or readers.rep@latimes.com
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal (tags)
From tompaine.com
This is how the sheep dogs keep the sheep complaint and exploitable. Remember 911? Bali? Oklahoma? Notice that all this bullshit started around the time people were starting to stand up to parasites like the WTO? Think about it!!
Remembering The First Siege Of Fallujah: Excerpts From Testimony Submitted To The World Tribunal On Iraq, University of Rome (III), February 10-13, 2005
Killing a Story, Helping to Elect a Corrupt, Lying President (tags)
Finally revealed in Extra! magazine: The inside story of how the New York Times and Washington Post both killed the story of Bush’s cheating use of a secret hearing device in the presidential debates, possibly influencing the outcome of the presidential race.
Sadr's Subtle Defiance of "Demonstration Elections" in Iraq (tags)
The January 30, 2005 elections in Iraq are the textbook definition of "demonstration elections." Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who issued "a fatwa saying all Shiia men and women have an obligation to vote in the upcoming election," the Moktada al-Sadr faction "uttered not a single word about the vote" at Friday Prayers, according to the New York Times, foreshadowing "a less than overwhelming voter turnout in many parts of Iraq" (Dexter Filkins, "Shiite Faction Ready to Shun Sunday's Election in Iraq," January 29, 2005). The Times insinuates that the Sadr faction are against democracy itself, solely by virtue of their quiet refusal to browbeat their vast following into embracing the elections tomorrow. Needless to say, the idea that it is people's right to evaluate whether or not an election is free, fair, and democratic and that boycotting an unfree, unfair, and undemocratic election is a time-honored tactic of democrats everywhere is unspeakable in the corporate media.
"CREATORS" SYNDICATE PROMOTES THOMAS SOWELL'S ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY (tags)
We have met the enemy, and it is US (corporate media) (tags)
On December 18, I attended Gary Webb’s memorial service in Sacramento, along with about 250 other people.
Actual Astrology for Jan. 8-14 (tags)
These predictions, based on Actual Astrology, are rather like a weather report. They relate how things will be based on the information recorded by the inventors of this art. No matter what your sun sign, these are the things that will be.
TG shot 12/27/04, LAPD mourns criminal (tags)
In a LA Times report of of a Marine's murder of a Transgender woman in Hollywood, an LAPD assistant chief is quoted as showing sympathy for the murderer, none for the victim.
100 Facts and 1 Opinion (tags)
From the Purple States to your brain
SOME THOUGHTS IN MEMORY OF GARY WEBB (tags)
Gary Webb; reporter who broke the CIA-CRACK COCAINE connection story was found dead of an apparant suicide
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter (tags)
Gary Webb, a courageous investigative journalist who was the target of one of the most ferocious media attacks on any reporter in recent history, was found dead Friday after an apparent suicide.
TRANSCRIPT: Interview with Gary Webb in 1998 Re-Broadcast Today on Democracy Now! (tags)
Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, is dead at age 49. We hear an 1998 interview with Gary Webb on Democracy Now! and we speak with his colleague, veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry. [includes rush transcript]
America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb (tags)
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign policy – the Reagan-Bush administration’s protection of cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra war in the 1980s.
Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold Exposes Corporate Scandal, Dirty Politics & His Life (tags)
In Off the Record, Jason Leopold reveals in startling detail how his desire to land the scoop at any cost ended up costing him his career.
What Went Wrong? Wrong Candidate, Lying Media, Ignorant Voters (tags)
For progressives to come back from this election disaster, the first step will have to be to break the corporate media’s stranghold on information, which has produced a nation of uninformed and misled voters (or non-voters).
Slick Dick's pick, 'A Pig with Lipstick!" (tags)
On Nov. 3, Slimy 'Halliburton' Dick will achieve historical notoriety for stealing an old Wyoming adage, "No matter how many times you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a Pig!" Afteer the election, this will become the defining quote on the well-deserved defeat of the Neo-con gang of Oilers & Warmongers at the polls.
CNP? Religious Right and Bush (tags)
Who Is The Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don’t They Want You To Know?
CNP - The Greastest Danger Behind The Bush Agenda (tags)
Who Is The Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don’t They Want You To Know?
Kerry Receives 100 Times More in Contributions from GOP Donors than Nader (tags)
The anti-Nader Democrats have spread their big lie to discredit Nader and silence his anti-war and progressive message that Kerry could not rebut.
About That Bush Wire: It's Not the Most Important Thing... (tags)
The evidence mounts that Bush is hearing very earthly voices in his ear, but the more important issue is what those voices are having him say about his plans for the next term.
New Book on Earth Liberation Front (tags)
FORMER ELF SPOKESPERSON CRAIG ROSEBRAUGH RELEASES NEW BOOK
Kerry owns assault rifleDespite pushing for bans (tags)
Despite pushing for bans against so-called assault weapons, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry now admits he owns a "Communist Chinese assault rifle.''
Peabody Coal indigenous land comments needed (tags)
Your comments can help stop increased destruction of indigenous land & water, as well as air pollution and climate change affecting everyone.
According to media reports, the US occupation forces are increasingly losing control over iraqi cities. For the time being, all oil exports of the country are halted.
Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum (tags)
Nuclear energy is still too expensive and too dangerous. Huge amounts of water are needed in a time of increasing water shor-tage. Uranium supplies are limited. $1 trillion was spent on nuclear research while renewable energy fell by the wayside.
NICHOLAS BAKER RECIPIENT OF LOS ANGELES TIMES "ABOVE & BEYOND " AWARD (tags)
TWELVE YEAR OLD STUDENT RECEIVES LOS ANGELES TIMES AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Art of War - New York Times (tags)
New York Times
Groupthink and the slide into fascism (tags)
On July 9th the Senate Intelligence Committee blamed "groupthink" as the basis for the Iraq War's false premises. But a noted psychologist and an eminent political scientist warn of US fascism, this front-page article revealing the reality of present circumstances.
Let the whining begin!
S. Korea, Migrant Workers... (tags)
...struggle, now the 245th day, continues. Latest report
"A maggot that eats off the dead" (tags)
Airman's funeral used in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Family of major livid Michael Moore showed ceremony footage
US: Patriotic pride and fear (tags)
Exploring questions of societal madness and contemporary fascism, Goldstein interviews political scientist Michael Parenti and psychologist Daniel Burston.
Politicians filmed bowing to 'Moonie' (tags)
Capitol Hill, home to America's lawmakers, is well known as a place where strange things happen. Few have been as strange, however, as the recent "crowning" of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, eccentric head of the "Moonies".
The draft...it's coming. Let’s put in on the table for discussion BEFORE the election! Ask the questions. Insist on open dialogue. Demand accountability from the Press and the Politicians.
Heralding the arrival of End Times for Bush (tags)
"who can miss the delicious irony that one of the most corrupt and lying administrations of modern times is now taking the unprecedented step of trying to get their religious backers to bring politics to their pulpits."
Corporate Spin Doctors Cure Obesity With Well Funded Denial (tags)
I just saw Super Size Me, loved it, and found something funny and sad...
Mistakes that are not mistakes in reality, but part of a strategy of US global domination and apologies that are insincere or ludicrous.
Slaughter in the Streets - US troops kill with indiscriminate fire (tags)
Seventeen year-old Amir is crying during much of the interview. “We were coming home from work, and were shot so many times,” he says with deep anguish and frustration, “Walid told me to leave the car because he was hurt and needed help.”
When hate groups are allowed to flourish, hatred is passed from one generation to another. America cannot look the other way and allow the resurgence of racial intolerance.
Life & Death in South L.A. (tags)
The decline of King/Drew Hospital should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who clings to the notion that health care should be dispensed by the government.
Kerry "Missteps" Get Lavish Media Attention, While Bush Falsehoods Ignored (tags)
The media is being easy on Bush (again).
Brutality starts at home (tags)
US President George W Bush condemned the incidents of Iraq prison abuse and those who perpetrated them, saying: "That's not the way we do things in America." But unfortunately, that's not quite true.
Random thoughts on the passing scene (tags)
Civic Cinema: A Mini-Festival of Politically-Minded Documentaries (tags)
The documentaries in this series are immediate responses to scary times. It's cinema at its most democratic and relevant.
Country Joe Band, 2004: 'Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again' (tags)
Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed themselves to be returning as a vibrant creative force centered very much in the present.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/23/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Spain, Netherlands, Russia, China, and Cuba.
Newsweek Misses Tax Freedom Day (tags)
Alhambra Vigil attacked (tags)
La Times covered the Alhambra Vigil in the California section of the sunday paper. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest11apr11,1,7920734.story?coll=la-headlines-california
FINALLY SOME TRUTH IN L.A. TIMES (tags)
FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA ZNET: Both Sunnis and Shiites have seen their homes attacked and their religious sites desecrated. Up against a shared enemy, they are beginning to bury ancient rivalries and join forces against the occupation. Instead of a civil war, they are on the verge of building a common front.
Media Coverage of Iraq Called “Shameful” (tags)
Media Coverage of Iraq Called “Shameful” By Peers
NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM (tags)
The Democratic party leaders met secretly over the weekend in various time zones according to pertainent forward orders to reset clocks affecting the international dateline leverage on the passover which continues to put pressure on the dollar and other news.
Most in U.S. think Bush was lax on Terror (tags)
Bush's overall job approval rating is 51 percent, down slightly from November and just above the 50 percent level that heralds a danger zone for candidates seeking reelection.
ARCHIVE OF ARTICLES ON SUSPICIOUS FACTS REGARDING 9/11 (tags)
"I can see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...corporations have been entroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.
Caltech Student Arrested in Arson Spree (tags)
SOMEONE OWES JOSH AN APOLOGY! A Caltech graduate student allegedly affiliated with an eco-terrorist group was arrested today in connection with last summer's arson attacks aimed at Hummers and other sports utility vehicles at four dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley.
U.N. Spying and Evasions of American Journalism (tags)
by normon solomon British intelligence caught spying on Kofi Annan, scandal rocks blair govt; us journalists evasive.
The Smirk Has Not Been Wiped From the Chimp's Face. (tags)
(Iran and Bush Regime's Pretext to War.)
High schooler savors becoming a conservative (tags)
"Liberals welcome every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his Third World state and come to America - mostly illegally - to rip off our health-care system, balkanize our language and destroy our political system."
I had to keep re-trying and recovering "lost download" to get this file showing Silverstein on PBS openly admitting WTC 7 was intentionally demolished and did not collapse from fire as we've all been lied to all this time.
Planning Activist Activities? (tags)
The start of any undertaking is either supported by the universe or not, knowing how to use nature forces can make the difference between growth and success, or wasted energy and failure.
In their own ways, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, provided the institutional frameworks for middle-class growth. Now, radical ideas are necessary to prevent a return to feudalism.
"I will admit that there are some right-wing pseudo-christian, groups like voz de aztlan in whitey-er, I mean whittier, calfornia, that promote homophobia and anti-jewish american sentiment, but they reflect only a small, middle class, Anglo-identified segment of the larger Latino and Native American community. "
It's hard to say which was worse for Howard Dean: the capture of Saddam Hussein or Al Gore's endorsement.
An un-American activity (tags)
Now we know better. A classified FBI intelligence memorandum has recently come to light demonstrating that the FBI is using this new authority to spy on nonviolent antiwar demonstrators. Ashcroft seems to be ushering us back to the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover, when the FBI made enemies of those who engaged in political dissent and civil disobedience.
Other people are now beginning to wake up to the depredations of Reichsfuhrer Ashcroft. It is nice the Mainstream is finally beginning to notice. Where were they 2 years ago?
9/11: Flights of Fancy in Florida (tags)
In these selected excerpts from his landmark article, Chaim Kupferberg looks at the Florida portion of the 9/11 Legend, using the recorded recollections of Yosri Fouda - the only journalist ever to interview the 9/11 mastermind - in order to expose a glaring contradiction in the "official" record of 9/11.
The New York Times: a proposal for ethnic cleansing in Iraq (tags)
While plans have been announced for Washington to erect a “sovereign” Iraqi regime by the middle of next year, this hollow exercise holds little prospect for ending a bitter conflict that is claiming the lives of American soldiers daily and creating growing political unrest in the US itself. Enter the New York Times with a modest proposal for a bloodbath. It advances what it terms a “three-state solution,” based on the partition of Iraq along ethnic and religious lines.
Self-Censorship: The LA Times and ``Resistance Fighters' (tags)
"The Los Angeles Times instructed its editors not to speak any more of Iraqi resistance fighters. Instead the words rebels or guerillas should be used according to the email order.."
United States: US media subservient to the state (tags)
The Media Whores, marching lockstep (Goose Step?) with the Bush Regime's agenda has whored itself repeatedly because "War Sells". All those nice explosions and all that misery keep the Proles complacent and glued to the screen of the Programming machine.
L.A. Times Bans 'Resistance Fighters' Term (tags)
Repost from the Reuters wire:
Fox News:Miles from 'fair and balanced' (tags)
LA Times article on bias at Fox News, and who's responsible.
A clear case of considered deception (tags)
The ultimate evidence of a deliberate CDC attempt to disguise the fact there is NO teenage 'AIDS' in America. Also read the shocking facts of "Grannies Gone Wild".
The Myth of Media Watchdogs (tags)
"Again, defenders of the media will claim that the media simply is performing its duties of "the public's right to know," but one must ask the simple question, "Know what?" If the media is presenting a false picture—and aiding and abetting a prosecutorial agent of the state in the commission of a felony—then we should ask whether or not journalists willingly are helping the state to lie."
White House Still Stonewalling on 911 Documents (tags)
Former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean told the newspaper the White House was continuing to withhold several highly classified intelligence documents.
Articles Draw Attention To USS Liberty - Worldwide Protests (tags)
The worldwide outrage of the incidents leading up to the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel and the major media blitz since yesterday.
Excerpt: Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11 (tags)
A penetrating overview of the Legend of 9/11. Going back over a decade, Kupferberg uses mostly mainstream sources to build a compelling argument that the events leading up to, and arising from, the September 11 attack were part of a covert global operation, the seams of which may be detected by a plethora of contradictions, coincidences, and curiously timed set-ups.
I realize that the big story of the day is that the Siegfried and Roy act is on indefinite hold, but I thought I'd chance a few words about the erection. I mean, election. Sorry, I've got Schwarzenegger on the brain---but not in the way you might think. Sex is not the problem here. It's certainly not Arnold's problem, as he obviously has enjoyed lots and lots of sex with lots and lots of women, and probably still does. Collie-fawnia, heah I come! The Sperminator!
Why wasn't Davis investigated too? (tags)
Davis should have been investigated for his violent assaults on women.
Can you believe this? The gang that promised to restore honesty and integrity to the White House is, once again, going to "slime" the opposition for shedding light on the corruption which has bloomed and flourished under George W. Bush.
Discovery May Spur 20 Times Cheaper Solar Power (tags)
The French-Italian company expects cheaper organic materials such as plastics to bring down the price of producing energy. Over a typical 20-year life span of a solar cell, a single produced watt should cost as little as $0.20, compared with the current $4.
Kudos to LA Times, Schwarzenegger lies Again, and Another Victim's Story (tags)
The Los Angeles Times did its job in sparkling fashion with its investigation of Arnold the Groping Liar published this week. Schwarzenegger's campaign is trying to say Gov. Gray Davis was behind the story, but that's not the case. Here is part of the story of another of those victims that I told a Times reporter about several weeks ago, but they did not have time to confirm the account.
More women accuse Governor Groper of sexual battery (tags)
Meanwhile, a new accusation surfaced from Escobar, a 41-year-old Los Angeles wife and mother and a waitress at a restaurant in the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. In an interview with The Times, she said Schwarzenegger had threatened to assault her when she was a teenager in the late 1970s.
Kleptocratic States of America (tags)
"Cronyism is an important factor in the Iraqi debacle. It's not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be. The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: By treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq's recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Job Losses at Level of Great Depression (tags)
Job Losses at Level of Great Depression Contradict President Bush's Wishful Predictions
Job Losses At Great Depression Level (tags)
The wonders of Bushonomics on display for all. His Father may have been George Herbert Hoover Bush - does this make the current Bush Calvin Coolidge?
FBI searches computers at Caltech library in SUV arson probe (tags)
FBI agents seeking a self-proclaimed arsonist searched computers at the California Institute of Technology for clues into fires set at four Southern California car dealerships.
Man Claims Role in SUV Firebombings, Says Josh Connole is Innocent (tags)
Man Claims Role in SUV Firebombings A self-described member of the Earth Liberation Front says he took part in Hummer vandalism
El imperio capitalista y el estado nación: ¿Un nuevo imperialismo norteamericano? (tags)
Antes de la última guerra en Irak, cualquiera que acusara a los Estados Unidos de imperialismo era probable que se encontrara con la objeción de que los EE.UU. no ocupa ningún territorio colonial en ningún lugar del mundo. Ahora que es muy visible en Irak, todo parece haber cambiado de la noche a la mañana.
AIDS doomsayers have fallen on hard times. (tags)
AIDS doomsayers have fallen on hard times. Just six years ago, the nation's top health official, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, declared that after the epidemic there might not be "any Americans left."
Transgenders: LA Times Still Doesn’t Get It. (tags)
Times "Readers Representative" defends use of male pronoun-refences to dead trans woman, states meeting with queer rights group would be unproductive.
British Rats Flee Sinking Baghdad Ship (tags)
The British embassy compound in Baghdad has been evacuated following a "credible threat" of attack. Foreign Office sources told The Times British diplomats, security guards and contract workers had been moved under heavy guard to the coalition provisional authority (CPA) headquarters in the city. Thousands of US troops are guarding the CPA compound, the newspaper reports
What happened to DIOGENES? (tags)
Very Curious
I. Wallerstein: La Debilidad Norteamericana y la lucha por la Hegemonía (tags)
Articulo destacado en Panorama Internacional.
Anti-war nuns go to prison. You go, gerrrrs! (tags)
DENVER - Calling them "dangerously irresponsible," a federal judge sentenced three nuns to at least 2 1/2 years in prison Friday for vandalizing a nuclear missile silo during an anti-war protest last fall.
Computer voting is open to easy fraud, experts say (tags)
The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday.
SCHA-LA pickets the LA Times for their coverage of the Supreme Court sodomy ruling, and their biased coverage of queers and transgendered people overall.
L.A. Times Cartoonist investigated by the Secret Service (tags)
L.A. Times Cartoonist Michael Ramirez is no Lalo Alcaraz, he's a deeply conservative fellow that fully supports Bush and the war on Iraq. Ramirez created a cartoon that supports Bush and portrays him as a victim being politically murdered for his attacking Iraq. Now Ramirez is being investigated by the Secret Service for his drawing!
The time has come to hold the media responsible for the lies they have told on behalf of the criminal Bush administration!
A Tampa pirate radio activist says an FCC proposal favoring media conglomerates can be detrimental to us
New York Times Reporter Judith Miller Accused of “Hijacking” Military Unit in Iraq (tags)
Three months into their occupation of Iraq, US military forces have failed to find any evidence of the supposed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that Washington claimed as the principal justification for invading the country. It is no longer possible to conceal the fact that the Bush administration lied to the American people to promote an unprovoked war of aggression.
Ann Coulters Crummy New Screed (Character Assassination) (tags)
In short, Ann Coulter has once again revealed herself as one of the most destructive forces in American politics, repeatedly making outrageously irrational arguments and demonstrably false claims. "Treason" is the culmination of a dismaying trend toward factually misleading and inflammatory books from pundits such as Michael Moore, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. These authors may delight partisans and make their publishers rich, but their work impoverishes our political discourse.
Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops (tags)
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign: "Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR WAR.
I can't believe the amount of transphobia I read on this site.
‘ Science Fictions is about scientists behaving very, very badly. Crewdson’s research is thorough, his writing brisk.’ — Edmonton Journa
Picket Line at LA Times (tags)
July 8th: PICKET LINE AT THE LA TIMES IN RESPONSE TO 6/27 HEADLINE LINKING OVERTURN OF SODOMY LAW WITH "MOLESTATION"
Anthrax suspect caught? (tags)
Steven Hatfill, who has been described as a “person of interest” in the investigation into a series of anthrax mail attacks in 2001, worked as recently as last year on a top-secret Defense Department project in which a mobile germ lab...
[Addendum, Oct. 7, 4 p.m. ET: Osama Bin Laden essentially claimed credit for the Sept. 11 attacks in a statement recorded before Sunday's strikes on Afghanistan. "America was hit by God in one of its softest spots," he said. "If it continues with this policy [against Iraq and the PLO], the sons of Islam will not stop their struggle."]
Our government controlled press - CIA Origins (tags)
The Sulzberger family and the New York Times lean left-liberal Democrat and are usually anathema to Republicans. But as Rockwell has oft pointed out, "neoconservatives" are really big government tax and squander interventionist welfare-warfare statists.
Almost two months after the president said major combat in Iraq had ended, U.S. troops are still being killed and the White House's plans are in disarray.
The Myth of McCarthyism (tags)
Broken Clock Leftist fifth column trash love that word "McCarthyism", almost as much as their other buzzwords. You know like racist, fascist, homophobe, xenophobe, ad nauseam...
Fight Terrorism: Enforce Immigration Laws. NOW! (tags)
Remember this report by Clinton-appointee Glenn Fine the next time a liberal tells you a Democrat president would have done as good a job as Bush in fighting the war on terrorism.
PayPal is not your buddy. It is another corrupt Corporate Suck-up. Please do not use PayPal.
America's most admired woman writes about America's least admired woman (again).
Media Parrots: Handout Photos Don't Tell the Whole Story (tags)
Manufacture News is a fact of life in America of the 21st Century. How often is the image you see one that was crafted to tug at your heart strings or provoke a specific emotional response? Media used as a tool of manipulation can take an honest image and use it to create a false message.
They Say "Tomato," We Say "What's Going On?" (tags)
"Post-War" Iraq Situation Has Funny Tone To It
Bad Iraq data from start to finish (tags)
Ever since the tragedy of Sept. 11, the Bush administration has relied on selective and distorted intelligence data to make the case for invading Iraq. But the truth will out, and the White House is now scrambling to explain away its mendacity.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Black Caucus and Asian Pacific Congress called the FCC's rules "a blow to diversity" undermining regulations "intended to promote minority participation, and preserve multiple media voices and opinions"
A Personal Chronicle of a Season of ‘Better to Laugh than Cry” Antiwar Activism. (tags)
Here is one NY-RTS' memories of the recent past- a memory of the particular groups anti-war activism.-- To be published on-line in the Journal of Aesthetics and protest. (print issue #2 to be released in late June, early July)
A minority view: the problem with liberals (tags)
The problem lies in the inherent mind-set of any organization as liberal as The Times. For minorities, this produces what I call paternalistic condescension: paternalistic because the liberal feels that only he knows what is good for the minorities, since the minorities cannot take care of themselves; and condescension because he feels good by lowering himself to help those he feels are below him.
Afghanistan, Irag and Depleted Uranium (tags)
Depleted Uranium and War
In mid-April the New York Times tried to take the edge off a poll showing that, even as US troops were entering Baghdad, a majority of Americans remained opposed to the policy of pre-emptive war that Bush invoked in attacking Iraq.
All the News That’s Fit To Print … and Then There’s the US Government (tags)
"Well, our special WMD search teams just returned home because they couldn’t find squat. And we won’t allow the UN inspectors back in, just in case they make us look bad for not finding squat. Making us look bad is apparently worse than proving we were right about the stockpiles. Note: truth has no place in this syllogism. "
At the paper of record, it seems, ideology trumps truth.
Radical spy plan nearly sneaks in under the radar (tags)
According to published reports of a private Senate Intelligence Committee meeting on May 1, when Democrats were alerted to the measure expanding this authority to the CIA and the military they objected and it was pulled from the bill.
They're Corrupt Cause You Don't Vote! (tags)
In all the years I've been working political campaigns in Canada and the United States I can't tell you how many times I've heard the expression "Why should I vote, they're all corrupt". When I hear that statement and I must've heard it a million times (there, I said how many times), it always reminds me of the chicken and egg theory and which came first. Did politicians become corrupt because you elected them or did they become corrupt because you didn't?
The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia (tags)
Now that the United States has completed a so-called humanitarian intervention in Iraq, I believe it is very informative to look back at the previous one in Yugoslavia. A brilliant analysis by noted author and political scientist Michael Parenti.
Finally, an independent film with realism
UCLA Bruin Today/Israael (tags)
power of the press, re-writing a letter to the editor-but close
In the sudden aftermath of the war, folks might find the following uplifting. It's taken from a longer talk given by Steven Miller, a high school teacher, at a LRNA forum in San Francisco on April 18.
Ending The Good Times - Exporting America’s High-Wage Jobs (tags)
The growing ability of U.S. employers to substitute cheaper foreign labor for U.S. labor is putting pressure on U.S. wages and salaries. On April 26 the New York Times reported that the real earnings of those in the top ten percent fell 1.4% over the last year. The real weekly pay for the median worker fell 1.5 percent.
stop the dirty air war at home, 300 Sept 11s is enough (tags)
Public pressure needed to stop energy companies from killing thousands more people.
A Couple of Ethnic Syndicalists Discuss paranoia: Humor (tags)
The federal government has placed a temporary > restraining order on Irwin > Schiff from selling his book, "The Federal Mafia" and > from lecturing. > Please go to his sitw, www.PayNoIncomeTax.com, for > more info. This must not > be tolerated whatsoever.
Pictures from American prison in Iraq (tags)
the pictures say enough about american arrogancy on the nude body of an iraq prisoner an american or american friend wrote in arab: "Ali Baba thief"
What, No Smoking Gun? The Media and the Specter of WMD (tags)
Extra, extra: Evidence is emerging that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq may never provide a compelling justification for the war.
Did the New York Times just change the rules of journalism? (tags)
Journalistic bombshells all (pardon the pun). But one-third of the way into Miller's story come these two paragraphs about the sourcing deal behind the scoop that she struck with Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, the U.S. military team searching for WMD in Iraq. Raising more questions about her relationship to MET Alpha than she answers, Miller writes:
War with Syria planned if Bush re-election in doubt. (tags)
"If Bush's re-election in 18 months should be endangered by the poor economic situation, his advisers could consider a new confrontation useful to get the voters back behind the commander-in-chief in the White House,"..
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" (tags)
Laurent Van der Stockt, a photographer working for the Gamma agency and under contract for the New York Times Magazine, followed the advance of the 3/4 Marines (3rd battalion, 4th regiment) for three weeks, up to the taking of Baghdad on April 9. He was accompanied by New York Times Magazine editor, Peter Maas.
The Spoils of War: Winners and Losers (tags)
Bill O'Reilly assesses the winners and losers from the Iraq war
The Anti-Defamation Leaue Of B'nai B'rith Facts Versus Its Smears And Lies (tags)
But what I complain of about the League is this. No matter how favourably I have handled Israel in the past, the slightest criticism brings down a garbage-can of attacks in its newsletter.
Proof U.S. Media Staged Statue Event in Iraq (tags)
This article provides absolute proof that the U.S. Military and the U.S. media conspired to fake an event in Iraq and broadcast it around the world. There were NO large crowds of Iraqis around when U.S. marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
Nine Theses on Moving the Peace Movement Forward (tags)
[Editor: John Gershman, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) Editor's Note: This piece was commissioned under the auspices of the Project Against the Present Danger. Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org]
U.S. Occupation forces Tortures Iraqi University Professors (tags)
12 Apr 2003 Iraqi scientists accused U.S. forces of torturing professors by poking their eyes out, and breaking limbs carried out by U.S. occupation forces also occupation forces are encouraging looting of universities to the extent of transporting looters to the universities and scientific institutions.
RW: Now That the War Is Going On... (tags)
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Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (tags)
From the book "Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability"
Publicizing the condom to the four winds is, for the most part, the bravura of a puritan who is trying to prove to the world that he is not a puritan. To concentrate on the mechanical aspects of the sex act to the exclusion of the emotional and psychological aspects (which the condom campaign ignores) is the essence of Puritanism. The only difference between the new and the old is that whereas the traditional puritans were alleged to believe that sex was something to be isolated and repressed, neo-puritans accept sex as something to be isolated and exercised.
The Viet Cong Admiration Society Retreats (tags)
Peter Arnett's history of sedition
L.A. Times Admits Photoshopping War Photo (tags)
L.A. Times Admits Photoshopping War Photos
The Peace Movement is Being Hijacked by the Liberals? (tags)
In today's New York Times Kate Zernike and Dean E. Murphy in their article are claiming that the "most influential antiwar coalitions have shifted away from large-scale disruptive tactics"
From "Plain Sailing" to "Where the Hell Are We?" to "Up the Creek (tags)
Barely into its second week Operation Easy Sailing is in big trouble. One simple way of measuring just how big is by adding up all the time you hear the phrases “all according to Plan”, and the “Our strategy is sound”.
Guide TO Living in Dangerous Times: WARNING! (tags)
The end of modern world is quite near: You can smell the death, anticipation of evil or its demise … and know that the JUDGEMENT IS nigh unto…All US soldiers, defense contractors and most of icitizens are considered war criminals and subject to arrest or aggre
More Civilian Casualties (tags)
US Hands off Sadam!!!
Has anyone noticed the hush....
Not sure if this is true but reads like it.
3/24 Westwood Protest for Colombia (tags)
March to protest U.S. military aid to Colombia/oil wars.
CNN gets a dose of itself (tags)
Here’s an excerpt from an interview by CNN’s Aaron Brown yesterday. He is talking to Hafez Al-Miraz, the chief Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera.
Hey anyone remember Inglewood? (tags)
Finnally independant people can hear my story.
Art photo and article. The LA Times online story about the protest is totally inaccurate! I describe my experience.
SHUT DOWN THE CORPORATE MEDIA! (tags)
The U.S. corporate media is effectively the dis-information arm of the U.S. military.
NEOCONS GO WILD OVER SPREAD OF CLEAN BREAK EXPOSE. (tags)
With allegations of ``conflict of interest,'' and possible ``blackmail'' of U.S. allies in Saudi Arabia hitting Richard Perle, the head of the chickenhawk-loaded Defense Policy Board, the neo-conservative hatchetmen in the press are trying to stop the exposes about ``Clean Break,'' the 1996 policy paper that Perle wrote for Benjamin Netanyahu, that mapped out war against Iraq, Syria, and Iran, and abrogating the Oslo Accords.
Why Americans Tune in to Canada (tags)
My e-mail inbox overfloweth with missives from our neighbours to the south as, I expect, those of many of my Star colleagues do. Many Americans seem pathetically grateful for offshore, online sources for news and views of the world. Not that the Canadian media are perfect. We make our mistakes. We have our biases. But here, at least, there's a vigorous and wide-ranging debate on the looming war. So who can blame skeptical Americans for resorting to Canadians when their "most trusted" and "most watched'' media are marching in lockstep to the drums of war?
Interview with Sabah Khodada, Who Worked at Salman Pak (tags)
Sabah Khodada was a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992. He worked at what he describes as a highly secret terrorist training camp at Salman Pak (see Khodada‘s hand-drawn map of the camp), an area south of Baghdad. In this translated interview, conducted in association with The New York Times on Oct. 14, 2001, Khodada describes what went on at Salman Pak, including details on training hijackers. He emigrated to the U.S. in May 2001
Global Women's Strike Organizers to Confront LA Times Editors (tags)
Reprint of a PRESS ADVISORY from March 10, 2003
More UN shennanigans
First They Came For Jose Padilla (tags)
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The WMDs Are Thiiiiiiiis Biiiiiiiiiiig (tags)
Fitting to the fish story Mr. Bush laid out in his news conference this week timed for consumption just before Hans Blix reports to the UN the York Times published a photograph on the front page of Mr. Bush at the podium posed with his hands spread apart as if he were describing the size of the fish.
TRUST OR HUSTLE: The Bush Record (tags)
“What you’ve got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle.” - Republican pundit Kevin Philips.1
Covert Operations Against Political Targets (tags)
Could the Los Angeles Times be in bed with corrupt County employees?
Call to Converge on Times Sq, 2/15, 3pm (tags)
WHAT: Post Rally Convergence at Times Square WHEN: Saturday, February 15, 3pm WHERE: Times Square, New York City
'Will of Allah' Pre-Empts Iraq Invasion (tags)
The strain of not having a Democrat in the Oval Office to create foreign policy disasters on his own is driving liberals to fevered fantasies of America's defeat someplace in the world.
Eminent scientists seriously doubt the still-unproven HIV=AIDS hypothesis (tags)
Dr. Donald Abrams: Prof. of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital: "I have a large population of HIV+ patients who have chosen not to take any anti-viral drugs. They've watched all of their friends go on the anti-viral bandwagon and die."
AMERICA WILL USE SHUTTLE ACCIDENT TO WHIP UP WAR NATIONALISM (tags)
Watch for the Shuttle accident to be cynically manipulated to whip up a phony "national unity" in the service of America's genocidial war against Iraq.
Where they have no military (tags)
In Costa Rica where they abolished the military over 1/2 century ago, Ticos(short for Costarricenses) "chill out" after Dubya's state of the Union speech.
Write LAT on Mandela censorship (tags)
The Los Angeles Times willfully failed to make any mention of Nelson Mandela's criticism of GWB and Tony Blair. Write them at letters@latimes.com
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/31/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and Cuba.
Today's London Times: Poll: Only 26% Of Britons For War (tags)
Poll results conducted by the London Times (1/25/03) "only 26% said Mr Blair had convinced them that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is sufficiently dangerous to justify military action"
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/24/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Germany, Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, and Cuba.
A look at who reads what. And what that says about them.
Venezuela in the News: Fraud and the Totalitarian Bias (tags)
The Washington Times | January 22, 2003
A Call for Peace on Nixon's Doorstep (tags)
The Los Angeles Times reports that 800 people attended the anti-war protest at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California
LA-Times on the Civ. Dis. arrests (tags)
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Tracking down underreported stories
NO WAR - New York Times Ad (tags)
TopangaPeaceAlliance list-serve announcement. Pass it on.
LA Times Poll: Most Unconvinced on Iraq War (tags)
Most Unconvinced on Iraq War Two-thirds believe Bush has failed to make the case an attack would be justified. Many think weapons are there, but they want proof.
SADDAM & RUMSFELD PARTNERSHIP OF USING CHEMICAL WEAPON (tags)
In 03,1984, with the Iran-Iraq war growing more brutal by the day, Rumsfeld was in Baghdad for meetings With Saddam Hussain. On the day of his visit, March 24th, UPI reported from the UN “Mustard gas laced with a nerve agent has been used on Iranian soldiers of war between Iran and Iraq, a team of U.N. experts has concluded...
feds withhold crucial wtc evidence (tags)
by chris bollyn
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION, #'S WILL BE IN NY TIMES ! (tags)
HELP US get some attention about the anti-war movement in the media by signing this petition, please!! web link http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
Beauty Pagents Can Be Murder (tags)
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
These people are victims too. (tags)
Hate crimes have rendered some murders meaningless.
ACTIVIST ALERT: Information Awareness Office / 20 seconds to nail NY Times (tags)
HIDING THE *FACT* THAT ALL THIS STUFF WAS PLANNED BEFORE 9-11 re. Information Awareness Office; NY Times missed the this fact.
Introducing the Information Awareness Office (tags)
YOU ARE A SUSPECT: regarding the current homeland security act.
did CIA fake terror bombings i philippines? (tags)
remember lavon affair in 1954? Has US done something similar here?
Seeping up from the depths...
How much did they pay you for your vote?
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/1/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Russia, Cuba, Germany, Netherlands, China.
The New York Times shares what's really important.
Who do you believe the NY Times or the NY Times? (tags)
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE THE NEW YORK TIMES OR THE NEW YORK TIMES?: AS THE NATION'S PAPER OF RECORD CHANGES ITS STORY ON THIS WEEKEND'S ANTI-WAR PROTESTS, WE LOOK AT HOW THE TIMES AND NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO HAVE MINIMIZED THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Is Big Oil Lubricating War
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/25/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Russia, and Cuba.
So. Central Green Lt. Gov. Candidate Donna Warren Silenced by LA Times Poll!! Write them! (tags)
This is not a democracy!!
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/18/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Cuba.
Mass Psychosis Strikes Nation - Congress feared effected (tags)
Weimar Syndrome was first detected here in the U.S. in the winter of 2000 when it was discovered that a growing number of citizens were under the mistaken impression that a little known governor from the state of Texas was actually the president of the United States
The West as Arrogant, Greedy and Self-Absorbed: Jean Chretien (tags)
"I believe the West is too rich in relation to the poor world. We are inevitably regarded as arrogant, self-absorbed, greedy and boundless. For me, September 11 was a chance to realize this more strongly.".Jean Chretien is the Canadian premier.
It's mind-blowing that LA Times wouldn't let guv candidate in building (tags)
I spent part of Monday at a local high school, telling a group of aspiring writers that journalism, at its best, serves a noble purpose. The press can be a voice for the little guy. Unfortunately, that's not always the case, as the Los Angeles Times reminded us this week. The Times, which sponsored a Monday debate between Gov. Gray Davis and Republican challenger Bill Simon, turned away the man most polls show running third: Green Party candidate Peter Camejo.
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Online Petition: US CITIZENS OPPOSE WAR ON IRAQ (tags)
US citizens oppose war on Iraq
Village Voice Media Takes Over LA Market (tags)
A memo from Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman's regarding the "the opportunity arose to consolidate and strengthen our position in LA" and a deal that "was just too attractive to pass up."
LA TIMES on ILWU with short update (tags)
Below is yesterday's LA times on ILWU possible lockout by the bosses. NYT reports today the lockout is averted
Daniel Pearl and The Paymaster of 9/11 (tags)
It was supposed to be the key chain of evidence linking the September 11 hijackers to Osama bin Laden - a wire transfer of $100,000 to lead hijacker Mohamed Atta. Yet less than five months later, the man initially fingered as the paymaster of 9/11 would be sitting in a Pakistani jail, accused of a wholly different crime - the murder of Daniel Pearl.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/30/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and Cuba.
Ashcroft wants American Concentration Camps (tags)
A commentary in Wednesday's L.A. Times addressed Ashcroft's previously undisclosed desire to set up concentration camps. Surely the man is more of a threat to American liberty than the al qaeda ever was.
Finacial Times: US bankruptcies, and who received contributions (tags)
The Financial Times has an incredible series breaking down the 25 largest recent bankruptcies in America and showing how rich the corporate execs got in the process – a total of $3.3 billion
10,000 times cancer risks from natural chemicals in our foods. (tags)
From the book "Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumpth of High Yield Farming" by Dennis T. Avery 2000.
The Saddam in Rumsfeld’s Closet (tags)
“Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.” —Donald Rumsfeld
LA TIMES EVACUATED AFTER THREAT (tags)
LA TIME EVACUATED AFTER THREAT/SUSPECT WITH BACKPACK SAID TO CONTAIN "EXPLOSIVES"
What's So Bad About Israel? (tags)
Israel has pioneered the science of making life unlivable with as little violence as possible. The Palestinians are not merely provoked into reacting; they have no rational choice but to react. If they didn't, things would just get worse faster, with no hope of relief. Israel is an innovator in the search for a squeaky-clean sadism.
Love, Anarchy, and other affairs (tags)
Actress needs help booking shows for her one women play. love, anarchy, and other affairs
Why is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afghanistan? (tags)
This major story, however, has received virtually no coverage in US newspapers or on network or cable television. Aside from stories on some alternative Internet publications, and a June 16 article on Salon.com, the story has been essentially blacked out in the US. A search for news about the documentary in the major dailies—including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald —turned up empty. Web sites for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News and CNN have likewise carried nothing on the film.
Eva Georgia and KPFK: See today's LA TImes! (tags)
See June 7 LA Times Calendar section, F21, for a long story entitled "A KPFK Pledge to Listen to the Listeners"
There are times in our lives when we must stand up for certain issues, rights or just pass on information that we believe is crucial. For me, this is one of those times.
Topless bars and massage parlors are operating illegally in Centreville, Ill., says Mayor Frankie Seaberry. The mayor has also discovered that the sales tax from one of the adult-entertainment businesses in the town hasn't been paid to the city in years. Another topless bar owner was ordered by the feds to sell the business, after being convicted of obstruction of justice. But after serving his prison sentence, he continues to operate the club. Meanwhile, the Riverfront Times, which like LA New Times is owned by New Times Inc. of Phoenix, rakes in a fortune in advertising revenue by promoting these questionable enterprises.
blackout?
Colombia archbishop murdered by state (tags)
Colombian narco-fascism has seen little success against the FARC except its constant use of defamation through the corporate media. Like the murder of Father Romero in El Salvador, the ruling class strikes once again showing its true face of cowardice and manipulation.
Links to OC Register, LA Times, and AP stories on the Taco Bell Demo (tags)
Here are some links to some of the corporate media coverage of the March 11 March and Rally at Taco Bell Headquarters. Note that the Orange County Register estimated the crowd at 1,500. It should also be noted that both NPR news and CNN headline news included repotrs on the demo, as well as a brief synopsis of the Coalition of Immakolee Workers' (CIW) reasons for calling a boycott of Taco Bell.
LA Police Resistance to Respectful Language towards Transgenders (tags)
A December 15 Los Angeles Times article quotes LA Police as being resistant to use "she" pronoun when adressing male-to-female trnasgenders, and to department directive to conduct survey of racial profiling stops.
Wall St. and the Drug Trade (tags)
In times of peace it is wonderful to know yourself, but in times of fascist takeover it is better to know the enemy.
If anyone has the ear of Abu Amar (Arafat), here is a suggestion. Right now, he should simply get close to Jerusalem and march, unarmed to pray at the Dome of the Rock.
Bush - Enron Connections Exposed (tags)
Bush - Enron Connections Exposed
Rights in The Real World By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (NY Times) (tags)
Date: December 2, 2001 Rights in The Real World By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Attorney General John Ashcroft is not completely crazy in his impulse to adopt unprecedented, draconian measures and military courts to deal with suspected terrorists. Source: The New York Times Section: Opinion
Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups (NY Times) (tags)
Date: December 1, 2001 Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political organizations. Source: The New York Times Section: National
Dillinger Gang-S11 poster< art project2> (tags)
This is Texas Tom Holmes poster in reponse to s11
Desktop Theatre online vigil<3rd screenshot> (tags)
This is the third screenshot of an online vigil against war that took place at several virtual communities. In these online communities, people at home chose a character (avatar) and wonder through virtual landscapes interacting with other avatars.
Desktop Theatre online vigil <2nd Screenshot> (tags)
At various times, these women were participating: karla ptacek, vicki smith & paolo grippa, helen varley Jamieson, adriene Jenik, Ann Snitow, Connie Samaras, Lisa Brenneis. To participate, each woman logged into the virtual community with a cartoon image of a woman in mourning as their avatar (representative) and wandered through the virtual landscape.
Desktop Theater online vigil <2nd Screenshot> (tags)
This is the second scren shot of an online vigil against war that took place at several virtual communities. In these online communities, people at home chose a character (avatar) and wonder through virtual landscapes interacting with other avatars.
Desktop Theater-Women In Black On-line protest (tags)
The following performance stills were taken from a series of "vigils" performed in the public chat space/application "The Palace" specifically in "Mt. Olympus" and "FireBirdz Forest". We performed it three times on 9/15/01 and then a few more times after that. Some of the women are in New York, and some in New Zealand & Italy. We walked a silent vigil across rooms with people in them.
Rumsfeld & Tribune/LA Times History--Part II (tags)
Ex-Tribune Company Director Rumsfeld is now Bush's "Secretary of War." Tribune/LA Times pro-war propaganda media conglomerate has played an anti-democratic and anti-humanistic historical role.
Rumsfeld & Tribune/LA Times History--Part I (tags)
Rumsfeld sat on Tribune media conglomerate board and Tribune's LA Times subsidiary has a history of being a pro-war propaganda instrument
Force the NY Times to publish the 2000 Florida Recount (tags)
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The only piece of real evidence. Who were the masterminds? (tags)
Is it important to Americans to know the truth? Or will we be satisfied with just getting the head of Ben ladin, and suffering the same fate again sometime in the future?
The Shortwave Report 9/28/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files (broadcast quality 13.6MB) streaming/quick 3.4MB. Times and freqs for listening at home. Radio Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and Cuba. Free to rebroadcast
The Shortwave Report 9/21/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.6MB) and quick or streaming (3.4MB) Netherlands, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Cuba.
The Shortwave Report 9/14/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Broadcast and streaming files. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Russia, Cuba.
Los Angeles Times on Tuesday (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) (tags)
This is the front page of the extra edition of the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Los Angeles Times (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) (tags)
This is the front page of the extra edition of the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Financial Times: Capitalism's Children Strike Back... (tags)
The Financial Times UK is running a week-long series on the movement.It can be found here: http://www.ft.com/countercap The author James Harding is also hosting a discussion group, titled 'Do the Anti-Globalisation Activists Have a Point?' All contributions are welcome...
Letter to the editor, LA Times (tags)
Corrects disinformation in today's newspaper
ALERT! Free Speech On-line Threatened (tags)
The corporations are so afraid of the Internet, last bastion of free speech in the era of their neo-fascist "New World Order", they are determined to take it away from us. See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-072601netarch.story-"Taming the Wild, Wild Web" L.A. Times 7/26/01.
Salk Institute on HIGH SERCURITY ALERT for BioDev/Bio2001 (tags)
Increased Institute Security June 24-27 Must have Salk ID at all times to enter re: Security measures planned at the Institute during the Bio 2001 Conference
All The Facts That Fit: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 1] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalls some of that lost history.
All The Facts That Fit: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 2] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalled several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots. Part Two criticizes other elements of Tom Friedman's column.
All The Facts That Fit: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 3] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor. Part Three criticizes Paul Krugman's column, with particular emphasis on challenging his claim that suffering under neoliberal capitalism can't be helped.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 1] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalls some of that lost history.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 2] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalled several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots. Part Two criticizes other elements of Tom Friedman's column.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 3] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor. Part Three criticizes Paul Krugman's column, with particular emphasis on challenging his claim that suffering under neoliberal capitalism can't be helped.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 1] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalls some of that lost history.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 2] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalled several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots. Part Two criticizes other elements of Tom Friedman's column.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 3] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor. Part Three criticizes Paul Krugman's column, with particular emphasis on challenging his claim that suffering under neoliberal capitalism can't be helped.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 2] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalled several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots. Part Two criticizes other elements of Tom Friedman's column.
All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 1] (tags)
Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies. Part One of this article recalls some of that lost history.
The Shortwave Report 5/11/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review (13.6mb) of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. FREE TO REBROADCAST, please notify . Radio Netherlands, China, Germany, Cuba. Times and frequencies for listening at home.
Protester shot 9 times by LBPD - for real (tags)
Pacifist Long Beach May Day protester shows the wounds he suffered after being shot nine times by the LBPD. One bullet passed all the way through his hand. (N.B. In a previous attempt to post this photo, I indicated he was shot by the LAPD. I apologize to LA's finest as I'm sure they would never resort to police brutality.)
Student shot 9 times on May Day (tags)
UC San Diego student reveals the wounds he suffered after being shot 9 times with rubber bullets during the Long Beach May Day rally.
Civility & Double Standards (Corporate Media & Bush Lies Re: FTAA, etc.) (tags)
It seems like just yesterday when the national news media was quick to accuse leading politicians of lying. But "George W. Bush has changed that, with journalists now won to the "civility" that Bush vowed to bring to Washington. Take how The New York Times delicately stepped around the apparent contradictions in Bush's words at the Quebec free-trade summit...."
New York Times on FBI internet surveillance (tags)
New York Times on FBI surveillance of the web
The Shortwave Report 2/9/01 Listen to the world! (tags)
30 minutes of news and opinion pieces recorded from a shortwave radio. New show every 2 weeks. (13.6mb) This edition features Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Spain, China Radio Int, and the Voice of Russia. Free to rebroadcast, please notify. Also times and frequencies for listening on your own. LISTEN GLOBALLY!
Austria: a year after the FPO crept to power, who benefitted ? (tags)
In Austria, the regime of Haider's laughably named "Freedom" party may serve as an example of what to expect from a corporate state.
WTO Protesters In Seattle Will March To Newspaper Pickets N30, 2000 (tags)
WTO Anniversary Protesters In Seattle Say They Will March TO Picket Lines On N30, 2000
SantaMonica Flouridation Vote/info & educational material (tags)
The vote in city council is postponed until November 28. There is still time to get this information out. Get copies of the Mirror and give them to everyone you know in Santa Monica. Send this notice out to your list.
Flag Burning Hurts the Cause (tags)
Flag burning = media suicide. Check today's Times. Why give the oligarchy more opportunities to demonize a whole movement?
NY Times and LA Times coverage of the conflict in the Occupied Territories (tags)
Observations made while reading through NY Times and LA Times articles covering the conflict in the Occupied Territories.
THE END OF DR. LAURA'S TV CAREER? (tags)
The following press release from StopDrLaura.com cites the halt of production and other signs that Dr. Laura’s TV show will soon be gone once and for all.
L.A. Times' Coverage of the MTA strike (tags)
A letter adressing the LA times' one-sided coverage of the current MTA strike.
A Different Perspective -Earl Ofari Hutchinson Our Times Crenshaw 9/15/00 (tags)
"The loss of Our Times is not a time to mourn. It's a time for those who care deeply about issues in our community and want to be kept informed about them to redouble their support of those local black and Latino newspapers, public access media shows, and radio outlets that will continue to provide our community with critical news, information and voices."
Our Times, Your times, Hard times (tags)
Robert Scheer's farewll column in Our Times, Santa Monica. Referred to by Karen Pomer in her open letter.
LA Times turns it's back on local coverage (tags)
The L.A. Times has just ceased publication of Our Times sections covering neighborhood news in 14 Southland communities -- an all-too-typical example of how corporate media fail to serve real community needs. Activist and radio producer Karen Pomer is circulating the following open letter to the staff of Our Times Santa Monica, which IMC-LA is proud to reproduce.
Federal judge rules that LAPD can be sued as a "criminal enterprise" (tags)
On Monday, in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a federal district ct. judge ruled that the LAPD's Rampart Division can be sued under federal "RICO" law as a "criminal enterprise". Among other things, this extends the statute of limitations for civil rights actions against the city by ten times -- raising it from 1 year (normal) to ten years (RICO). It also triples the city's civil liability, since RICO allows for triple damages.
17 years on Manhattan Cable TV, The Jon Hammond Show is a music and travel soft news program. The show is legendary and has universal appeal. Tune in on MNN!
LA Times Article re: LAPD Undercover OPeratives (tags)
What if LAPD undercover "scouts" masterminded the throwing incident Monday night?
LAPD Provacateurs [LA Times 08-18-00] (tags)
The LA Times reports that in almost every major group of arrests this week, there just happened to be an undercover police presence. They were always there when events turned "violent" or "chaotic."
More Corporate Media articles (tags)
Multiple articles from NYtimes, LAtimes, and excite also the daily photo gallery from LAtimes.com
NY Times' Message: "We Are Clueless." (tags)
An article in today's Times lumps all protesters in the "Neo-Woodstock-twenty-something-male-partier" category.
KUCI Subversity Web-cast on Protests (tags)
Web-cast of weekly alternative radio show focusing on this week's police crackdown with highlights on Sunday's Mumia March in Los Angeles
Multiple articles at the LA Times website
TARGET: Corporate Media (tags)
The corp. media will betray us in L.A as they are currently doing w/ Philly and have grossly done w/ Seattle. How many times can we allow this? They are the reason fascists get elected. They kill us. Literally. The NY times right now is virtually ignoring the Philly protests, and making Bush look dynamic and smart. Are we wasting time? FUCK THIS SHIT. Are we in it to win it or what? Reclaiming democracy means reclaiming it from the private interests that have almost total control over information flow in our country. Target the corporate media, in addition to subverting them.
Opinion: LAPD HOLDS ACTIVISTS FOR QUESTIONING (tags)
Activists charged with trespassing, held for political questioning by LAPD
Kozmo.com Fires Seattle Employees for Refusing to Sign Waivers (tags)
Seattle -- An estimated 20 Kozmo.com employees were fired yesterday for refusing to sign paperwork that would have allowed the company to perform background checks on their personal lives.