Women's rights were to be strengthened and a Western-style form of government was to be implanted. In fact, according to the U.S.'s own statements, the hijackers of those planes that flew into the World Trade Center towers were primarily Saudis. The docile oil country of Saudi Arabia was never attacked.
The American Court of Human Rights (tags)
LET THIS REVOLUTION ESCALATE
Help Wanted: How You Can Act Locally To Stymie Trump’s Agenda (tags)
Right now, local police forces almost uniformly have the unchecked ability to decide, in secret, when and under what terms they acquire and use surveillance technologies. Because local police have a hard time turning down offers to buy them free equipment, they are likely to continue to pursue these federal grants, even if they contain surveillance data sharing requirements. The only way to prevent the police from accepting these offers is to change the law. That is what the Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) effort is all about.
Israel's War on Refugees (tags)
Israel
US-Installed Ukrainian-Style "Democracy" (tags)
Ukraine
Nemtsov Wanted Color Revolution Change in Russia (tags)
Russia
Capture of Philippine fugitive general Jovito Palparan hailed as victory for Aquino (tags)
Philippine security forces yesterday captured a fugitive former army general wanted over the kidnapping of two students, fulfilling a promise by President Benigno Aquino to bring high-profile criminal suspects to justice.
Iran's 35th Islamic Revolution Anniversary (tags)
Iran
Israel
Longstanding US/Iranian Relations (tags)
Iran
Why Was Syria Attacked? (tags)
Syria
Russia Grants Snowden One-Year Asylum (tags)
Snowden
America Honors Its Worst (tags)
police state
Whenever we face the aftermath of a tragedy, for those of us not directly affected, among the many reactions we many manifest, if we have any maturity at all, will typically be on some level, to feel compassion for the victims, a sense of anger at the perpetrators (when there are any) and shock on some level. There of course are other emotions, but those typically are among whatever group we may feel. We may even feel deflated when things do not turn out the way we had hoped, in terms of the outcome for victims or the perpetrators not getting the punishment we may feel they deserve. There is no doubt, we felt many things this past week during the Russian youth's Boston Terrorist Attacks, and the afore listed feelings were no doubt among them for most of us.
Wanted Poster John Bahner
Chavez: Visionary Leader Extraordinaire (tags)
Chavez
crime
Aaron Swartz: Suicide or Murder? (tags)
murder
Israel's War on Palestine (tags)
Gaza
Nobel Hypocrisy Wins Again (tags)
sham
When Everyday Russians Knew the Communists Were Failing (tags)
Growing up my parents kept people from all different ethnicities, races, religions, backgrounds, etc as friends. They tried not to discriminate, as they didn't want others to discriminate against them or their children. They had friends from Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, South America and of course America. They allowed people into their home from different backgrounds and were allowed into the homes of others. On the street we lived we were the first non-all white family; my mom being British, my dad being from India and our neighborhood predominantly Sicilian.
In the quest to not seem as if a person has suffered a loss the there can be no end to the lengths certain people's egos will go. It happens in all areas of life and when highly competitive people lose, it can be as though they have suffered the death of someone close to them. For those that care only about the competition, such as many athletes, it's probably just as much if not more about the work they put in to achieve a win only to suffer a loss. For people in other situations sometimes it is all about image and the thought of being humiliated, embarrassed and looking bad. There are even those that feel everything is about their image for them losses can send people to extremes with desperation written all over their actions.
Activists Discuss Debt Debate, Wonder How We Let Right Control It (tags)
Congressmember Bob Filner, San Diego labor leader Lorena Gonzalez and three other speakers appeared as part of a panel convened by Activist San Diego for their regular meeting August 15. The ostensible purpose was to discuss the recent debate in Washington over raising the nation's debt ceiling, but it soon turned into a discussion of how the Right managed to take over the debate, frame it the way they wanted and get virtually everything they wanted -- including promises of large cuts in government spending that will only worsen the economy and risk not only a double-dip recession but an outright depression. Filner talked not only about President Obama's willingness to concede the domestic agenda to the Republicans but his and the Democrats' Congressional leaders utter unwillingness to end the unaffordable wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
More Myth than Massacre at Srebrenica (tags)
anti-war
Natalie Portman?s $600 Carton of Eggs: The Black Swan and The Chicken (tags)
I am an animal rights advocate like Natalie Portman; and recently heard of the vegan actress? dilemma: she wanted to consume eggs during her pregnancy. Portman is a compassionate soul, so I wanted to help her with a compassionate alternative.
Joshua Napier: Singer, Songwriter, Queer Activist Brings Passion to His Music (tags)
The first thing you’ll notice when you hear Joshua Napier sing is the sheer emotion and passion he projects with his music. Napier sings with an edgy intensity that makes you identify with him and his songs. What’s more, though he’s a political activist and writes topical songs, he has the knack of the best activist songwriters of combining the personal with the political and creating pieces that reflect his beliefs instead of hitting you over the head with them. Napier is equally passionate off-stage. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised by a single mother, he was out as Gay in high school. One of the reasons he came to San Diego was to find an activist community with which he could work. Active as the membership chair of the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (S.A.M.E.), he recently left that group’s board to join the board of Activist San Diego (ASD) because he wanted to work with a group that isn’t just focused on Queer issues. Catch him wherever you can — at fundraisers, coffeehouse gigs or the “Redfest” event of politically aware music he’s planning for this summer.
LULA AND THE SAD RESTART OF BRAZIL (tags)
Brazil that the USA created with the coup d'état of 1964 continues alive and assets.
FBI Sting Entraps Another Victim (tags)
another likely victim of US injustice
"Ttopia can become Reality on the Internet!" (tags)
"We wanted to create an optimistic vision of the Internet without veiling the dangers and weaknesses of the system. Everything possible that happens today appeared utopian a few years ago. Our virtual country survived a dark period of its history and changed.."
USA POLICE STATE music video (tags)
Rocker Scott X and his band expose the oppression and corruption of the U.S. Police State that hang over the head of every U.S. citizen in the new release LIBERTY WANTED.
Sirhan Sirhan: in His Own Words (tags)
Sirhan was framed to be used as a patsie
WANTED: Minuteman Chris Simcox is Fugitive From The Law in Arizona (tags)
Minuteman Chris Simcox is on the run from the law in Arizona; judge orders him to turn in his guns; wife accuses him of threatening to kill her. Bounty hunter firm is pursuing Simcox along border.
Tzipi Livni (ex Israeli foreign Minister) cancels visit to London (tags)
For fear of being arrested as a war criminal
Two men and a woman are wanted in connection with the kidnapping of Briant Rodriguez (tags)
Mexican police and American law enforcement are searching border cities in Mexico and seem confident they will found them.
Our Common Enemy: The Press (tags)
From the view of the rulers, the task of the media is to give a false impression about reality. It protects the governing elite from the people so the people do not really know what the elite actually does.. The freedom of the press is the freedom of 200 rich men.
The Blogging Revolution (tags)
Blogging gives a voice to citizens around the world, but why do their views often go unheard in the west? And is the web really a force for radical change?
Russia Never Wanted a War (tags)
The planners of the crisis in Georgia clearly wanted to make sure that Russia would be blamed for worsening the situation.
WaBun-Inini: A true American hero : praises Robert Mugabe (tags)
another enlightened supporter of Robert Mugabe in the face of neocolonial attacks on Zimbabwe
It's make-or-break for Pinoy vets' bill (tags)
World War II veteran Guillermo Rumingan had a teleconference with other veterans and their supporters and plotted what could be the last chapter of a historic run to push the Filipino Veterans’ Equity Bill. From Hawaii to California to Washington State to Virginia, they weighed their options that seemed to thin with each passing hour. After a triumphant 96-1 Senate vote to pass S-1315, which contained provisions for Filipino veterans’ equity, the bill is now stalled in the House of Representatives. Although the 110th Congress is scheduled to hold sessions until the last week of September, veterans activists are looking at the week beginning August 4 as the last window to realize an over 60-year-old dream. If nothing happens by then, all the historic gains achieved this year will come to naught. They had an appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week, but she was not available and only one of her staff members faced the veterans led by Eric Lachica, executive director of the Virginia-based American Coalition of Filipino Veterans. "She wanted 290 sure votes for S-1315," Rumingan told ABS-CBN’s Balitang America.
Obama's Accuser and the Surreal Scene at the NPC (tags)
The fur was flying fast and furiously at the National Press Club on June 18, 2008. Larry Sinclair was in town--the bete noire of U.S. Sen. Barrack Obama (D-IL). After making an opening statement, the media ripped into Sinclair, challenging just about every aspect of his anti-Obama yarn. It wasn’t a good day for the accuser. He was also arrested after his spiel by the DC cops and turned over to two Federal Marshals on an outstanding Delaware warrant.
Sandy Lareau: Informing and Entertaining the Modern Witch (tags)
This May 1 — Beltane in the Pagan holiday calendar — will see the debut of Modern Witch, a quarterly magazine aimed at witches, wiccans and Pagans. In this interview from the May 2008 Zenger's Newsmagazine, publisher Sandy Lareau tells her Wiccan coming-out story and talks about her plans for the magazine and the commitment her community has for protecting the environment.
WANTED REPLACEMENT CEO TO MANAGE PENNIBANCTRUST UNDER IRS EMBEZZLEMENT AUDIT (tags)
Wanted, top CEO to manage Pennibanctrust see Google, Former CEO compromised
Fugitive Laurean took bus from Juarez to Guadalajara (tags)
Mexico has a longstanding record of refusing to extradite suspects to the United States if they face a possible death sentence upon conviction.
CODEPINK's "Most Wanted" Campaign Targets Luis Posada Carriles for Terrorism (tags)
Call for Notorious Terrorist to be put on FBI Most Wanted List and Arrested
"Not Roses--Peaches" SoPas and Highland Park do it again at the Parade! (tags)
A small band of South Pasadena and Highland Park Activists Show Humorous ImPEACH banner to parade spectators along the whole length of the Rose Parade route .
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A Profile in Courage, Honor and Hope (tags)
The story of anti-fascist freedom fighters.
Local Marine, Rogelio Ramirez, Killed in Iraq (tags)
On Sunday, U.S. Marine Pfc. Rogelio Ramirez was killed in Iraq. The 21-year-old Ramirez left behind his immediate family, a girlfriend who is three months' pregnant with his child, and plans to buy a home, raise a family and get into real estate after returning home to Pasadena from his stint in the Marines, his relatives said.
If the Arabs want to get peace they will have to cut off the AIPAC from Ccongress and the White House in the US.A long, if not impossible job.
Biking to beat breast cancer: Five friends on a mission to Mexico (tags)
Giuen Media
To run World Bank
Interview with a war resister (tags)
Darrell Anderson received a purple heart after being wounded in Iraq, and has since been one of the wars harshest critics. He currently lives in Portland Oregon and continues to speak out against US war crimes committed in Iraq Q: What led you to join the military? A: Basically, I wanted money for education. I wanted a future. At the time I joined, it was a month before the war had started. So, I was ready to go to war, and I had actually joined because I wanted to see combat and wanted to go to war. I believed that If I died for my country, I’d be a hero, and I believed all the propaganda that they feed the youth of the country about war.
Sorry, it was all a big mistake (tags)
and our country boys are dead.
Local Soldier, Nicholas P. Steinbacher, Killed in Iraq (tags)
On Sunday a Crescenta Valley family received the news that their son, Nick Steinbacher, serving in Iraq, had been killed during a night patrol on Dec. 10. He had just celebrated his 22nd birthday on Dec. 8. Copyright © 2006 La Cañada Valley Sun
Local Soldier, Jang H. Kim, Killed in Iraq (tags)
Jang H. Kim – a member of the Army's 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division – died Monday from injuries suffered when a homemade bomb exploded near his vehicle during a combat operation in Baghdad.
Local Soldier, Kenny F. Stanton Jr., Killed in Iraq (tags)
A Hemet High School graduate who was a budding journalist and a youth leader at his church has become the latest Inland serviceman -- and the third from his school -- to be killed in the war in Iraq.
Art of War : E -Vote for Tyranny (tags)
E -Vote for Tyranny
FBI "has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" (tags)
Why does the FBI's "Most Wanted" poster for Osama/Usama Bin Laden NOT mention 9/11? According to the FBI, it's because "the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." Might this explain why General Myers said "the goal has never been to get Bin Laden" and why Bush doesn't "spend that much time on" Bin Laden? No hard evidence--yet thousands of lives and hundreds of billions can be spent on "war"?
Jason Morrow, a Local Marine Killed in Iraq, Remembered (tags)
Cpl. Jason Morrow proposed to his wife last year at home plate in Angel Stadium. He later threw out the first pitch at a playoff game. Now the ballclub comes to terms with his death in Iraq.
Local Marine, Salvador Guerrero, Killed in Iraq (tags)
Marine Lance Cpl. Salvador Guerrero, 21, died in combat in Al Anbar province, Iraq, June 9, 2006.
FBI says, “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11” (tags)
Fancy that: the chief subject, the cause of 2 vicious wars, hundreds of thousands massacred...and FBI says: it doesnt have hard evidence he was involved! Please post this to your local newspapers
The Fall of the House of Bush (tags)
Hubris, meaning pride or arrogance, is a very human flaw. Bush wanted a war with Iraq more than he wanted to catch Osama and thought he could manipulate the American people into confusing the two and supporting a war under false pretenses.
MacLaren Hall and The Lost Orphans (tags)
Survivors of MacLaren Hall describe horror. “Children with burnt skin, black eyes, arms in slings and legs in casts, were familiar sights.” We are the survivors of Mac Hall, this is our story...
“We are Human Beings” Enrique Morones on the New Movement to Defend Immigrants (tags)
An interview with Enrique Morones, bane of the Minutemen, Border Angel and member of the Buenas Noches Brigade.
Local Soldier Killed in Iraq (tags)
Sgt. Jonathan Tessar, 36, a Green Beret who always wanted to be a soldier was killed Monday when an bomb detonated near a Humvee carrying the Simi Valley native and three other soldiers near Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
Impeachment Then and Now: Clinton, Bush and the Polls (tags)
Impeaching Bush may seem far-fetched but among the public, it’s a lot more popular an idea than the impeachment of Clinton was only days before the House impeached him.
Wanted for Mass Murder: The Bush Regime (tags)
Printable 'Wanted' poster
Sammia Gonzalez is wanted by by the police for practicing medicine without a license.
US Using Thought Reading Tech on Citizens
Bush tries to make cheap political capital out of the Shiavo tragedy, but fails to act.
Reporters Without Shame (tags)
This article from Sept. 2004 details how the founder of Reporters Without Borders, Robert Menard, was paying Cubans to write negative stories about their country -- and making a profit for himself.
Three Women: Thoughts on Transformations, International Women's Day 2005 (tags)
The following article was written for International Women's Day. It was posted on the L.A. Writers Collective new blog, and also appears on the latest issue of the Revolutionary Worker
Pizza, Ice Cream, and the First Amendment (Not Necessarily in That Order) (tags)
I got lucky the other day. (No, I’m not talking about that kind of lucky. What do you think I am, a “family values” Republican at convention?)
In America’s Industrial Heartland Can’t Pay Won’t Pay Campaign takes Off (tags)
Anger at corporations and their politicians finds concrete expression in North West Indiana
Local Soldier, Killed in Iraq, Laid to Rest (tags)
Gloria Salazar, middle, mother of Las Vegas Marine Cpl. William I. Salazar, is consoled by family member Sammy Acosta, left
a short story...cause it's too obviou.s it's all to oobvious and democracy in the united States would be like, well Ghandi said something about western "civilization"....so herein for your sunday evening is a simple short story. yeah, it is about current events. if you read it and weep i did it right. Dedicated this sad October sunday to the late activist kathleen Chang. --bongo
Art of War : The Metal Heart (tags)
The Metal Heart
Local Soldier Killed in Iraq (tags)
Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez, 22, was one of four Marines from Camp Pendleton who died Saturday during fighting in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
“Any nation that protects its citizens from their own folly will eventually become a nation of fools.”
Wanted information : Rabinder Singh living in USA (tags)
Wanted information : Rabinder Singh living in USA REWARD --- %500,000
Our Myopic Beeblebrox: Plausible Selective Memories (tags)
Pabst Blue Ribbon, ketchup, a Black Panther in Cuba, myopia, Pat Brown and Sci-Fi classics: an eclectic and selective obituary of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States of America.
UGSOA President Jim Vissar Lies to Its Members! (tags)
Why does our UGSOA President have to lie?
Getting to know Senator Kerry (tags)
Kerry had battled the Viet Cong, the Nixon White House, and the extremes of the antiwar movement.
NEWSFLASH! Text of Bush's Aug., 6, 2001 Intel Brief (tags)
Text of Bush's Aug., 6, 2001 Intel Brief , as transcribed by the Associated Press
A history of the close collaboration of fascists of different nationalities when faced with the common threat of socialism.
Former PLO terrorist a most unlikely Zionist (tags)
"The world does not see the truth about what's happening in the West Bank," Shoebat told the Star in an interview yesterday afternoon. "My purpose is to tell the West that they aren't getting the real picture, that what they're seeing is propaganda. I know the truth because I was there, I was part of it. And the truth is, we wanted to kill Jews long before the occupation. I wanted to kill Jews."
Petulance grows in cancerous amounts
Bush Toady Tom Daschle Shows HIs True Colors: YELLOW & GREEN! (tags)
"Leading Democrats" Tom Daschle announced he plans to vote FOR the infamous Bush-Cheney energy bill - the biggest corporate giveaway in US history. Is it any wonder the public is chronically disgusted and enraged by the untrustworthiness and spinelessness of the Democratic party???
House Panel Approves Bush $87B Iraq Plan (tags)
The bottomless money pit called Iraq received an additional 87 billion dollars to fight the war... No WMD's , No Hussein and no terrorist connections... Within a few years the national deficit should read more that 500 billion. HOPE YA LIKE IT..CUZ YOUR PAYING FOR IT!!
A history of the colloboration of German and American capitalists in World War 2 to not only profit from war, but spread fascism as well.
SHERMAN AUSTIN SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN FEDERAL PRISON (tags)
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LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (tags)
A GOOD READ ON JULY 4...
Ya Basta Caravan in the Middle East Communication (tags)
An official communication from the Ya Basta caravan in the Middle East
Just wanted to check in.
Peoples Most Wanted Playing Deck ( Pic ) (tags)
From The Peoples Most Wanted Playing Deck.
In bombed neighborhoods, everyone 'wants to kill Americans' (tags)
"There was no military here to put the bombs on us. So, I imagine, they wanted to kill us," said Abdel Majid, 43, who is afraid to let his children play in the yard.
Today is proof positive . . . (tags)
Today is proof positive that today's anti-war activists are moral idiots.
YellowTimes.org shut down again for showing POW pictures (tags)
The well known alternative publication YellowTimes.org was censored by its hosting company for showing pictures of U.S. POWs and civilian Iraqi casualties in Iraq.
As a disability activist I decided to get arrested at the Westwood Federal Building demonstration on March 19 along with 33 others. This is the story of that arrest.
911 Conspiracy? The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation finally connects the dots (tags)
CBC AIRS PROOF THAT BUSH ADMIN HAWKS WANTED 911 TO HAPPEN!!!!! This was just on the CBC's National News (10:00 -11:00PM EST and 11:00PM-12:00AM EST): "They [the New American Century, a ultra right-wing think tank made up of top Bush admin. officials] wanted the U.S. as a global "constabulary" – their word – unburdened by the United Nations or world opinion, preventing any challenge to U.S. dominance. But, they wrote a year before Sept. 11, such aspirations are unlikely to be realized without "A CATASTROPHIC AND CATALYZING EVENT....LIKE A NEW PEARL HARBOUR."
Bike Block NYC recap F-15 (tags)
NYC protest news
Fortune Magazine: After Sadam (tags)
"A prolonged, expensive, American-led occupation is also plausible, one that could turn U.S. troops into sitting ducks for Islamic terrorists, a la Lebanon in the 1980s."
Inside The Mind Of A Black Man Being Denied Justice (tags)
On March 22, 2001, a simple traffic stop by two LAPD officers escalated into a high-speed police pursuit after Raynell Carmichael was mistakenly presumed to be a murder suspect. This pursuit amounted to nothing more than a "police manhunt for a murder suspect" who in fact was no murder suspect at all. The vehicle he was driving was properly registered to his wife, yet according to LAPD spokespersons during the televised pursuit and later in the news, Carmichael was said to be driving a vehicle that was stolen and associated with a murder suspect.
Thank you from the OCRC to everyone that came out this past Saturday in Orange County (tags)
ocrc@mail.com
Osama Bin Laden's Romance With Kola Boof (tags)
Sudanese author Kola Boof, who faces death by fatwa, has admitted to a brief love affair with Osama Bin Laden in Morrocco in 1996.
John Trudell: Excellent Demystification of US Preparations for Future Wars At Home & Away (tags)
This emerging figure of well-deserved respect goes along way towards demystifying what few, even Chomsky, have in helping individual people understand the *War Games* played upon all of us systematically, and it's about time we started to understand, just like so many indigenous peoples of the world understand.
An open letter to my fellow American Jews (tags)
American Jews must come to terms with our/Israeli faults before peace can exist.
I don't know if this really belongs here, but this is the beginning of a short story I'm writing and I was wondering if any of you LA heads could critique it for me. I wonder if it's bad enough to get banned, heh heh. All good art should be banned at least once.
Artists wanted for Infoshop Benefit (tags)
Artists and performers wanted for a benefit show for the Long Beach Infoshop.
Bush Texans, bullies at G8 (tags)
Ottawa says Bush 'Texans' tried to bully G8 host > 'In your face with a boxing glove'
Israeli Terror in Al Ama'ari Camp (tags)
I wanted to get this story out earlier but didn't have a chance...horror in Al Amari on June 39.
When will the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List CEO's and the Financial Machines (tags)
sorry, i'm pissed.
Wanted: Unions With Balls (tags)
Wanted: Unions With Balls
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-UNCLE SAM (tags)
From South Africa Indymedia- a "wanted" poster of Uncle Sam
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about GMOs, But Had No One to Ask (tags)
If you have questions about what you're eating, read "Biotech: The Basics."
I wanted to hear the opinion of anybody that saw the report here in Los Angeles on channel 9 on how the polls stand now.
UK indymedia comment on Fuel Tax Protest (tags)
Mayday UK comment on Fuel Tax Protests. http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=265
Fwd:PhillyIMC what about the non activists? (tags)
Excerpt "Without hesitation, he said that he did not feel that demonstrations accomplish anything and that politicians, who make the decisions, respond to whoever gives them the most money. He further contended that the demonstrators had no business blocking traffic, that if they wanted to demonstrate, they should do it in a place where the demonstration would not disrupt peoples’ lives. "
D2K Press Conference to Reclaim Pershing Square (tags)
D2K Holds a press conference Today to show the media who the protesters really are and to celebrate the ACLU's legal victory in regaining first ammendment rights for the DNC protests