February 2012
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Jewish Columnist says he deeply regrets writing a... →
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“Vice president Spiro Agnew, as a part of a coordinated campaign to smear anti...”
– Bringing the War Home, the Weather Underground, the RAF, and Revolutionary Violence in the 60’s This is what democracy looks like (in a police state)
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“Then they’ll raise their hands, Sayin we’ll meet all your demands,...”
– Bob Dylan, “When the Ship Comes In”
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HIV+ Occupy Oakland Protesters Denied Meds in Jail →
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department in California has earned itself a reputation for heavy-handed responses to Occupy Oakland. Since Tuesday, allegations of abusive treatment by officers have escalated as arrestees detained during Saturday’s mass Occupy actions in Oakland were released after up to three-day stints in holding cells at the department’s Santa Rita Jail.
Salon has received three...
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Hundreds of students with J-1 travel visas...
PALMYRA, Pa. — Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.
The students, from countries including China, Nigeria, Romania and Ukraine, came to the...
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Transgender Taser victim fighting potential... →
A California transgender woman seen in a recent video being Tasered by police wants potential charges against her dropped.
Brooke Fantelli, owner of Fantelli Racing Products, claims that police Tased her in the stomach and genitalia after discovering that she is transgender.
The incident occurred Oct. 22, according to Fantelli’s attorney, Dana Douglas.
Douglas said that Fantelli went with...
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A very important look at curent goings on in... →
Dakar, Senegal - On February 1, mass protests swept Senegal in opposition to the perceived attempts of President Wade to engineer a constitutional coup that would allow him a third term in office. The Wade administration has responded by cracking down against protesters across the country. Police have allegedly fired on Senegalese citizens with live ammunition. The number of dead is unknown. In...
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Occupy All Streets: Bank Of America Sends Internal... →
occupyonline:
An internal email was sent out to all Bank of America Corp Field Services regarding the Dec. 6th National Day of Action to Occupy Our Homes. See the email below.
The email reads that this event “could impact our industry.” Well, yes, BAC, that is our hope. Thanks for…
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“Under a secular government, President Hosni Mubarak stole $60 billion from the...”
– http://www.workers.org/2011/world/egyptian_elections_1215/
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ACLU Sues U.S. for Information on Targeted Killing... →
Terrifying
solitaryforager:
Our government’s deliberate and premeditated killing of American terrorism suspects raises profound questions that ought to be the subject of public debate. Unfortunately the Obama administration has released very little information about the practice — its official position is that the targeted killing program is a state secret — and some of the information it has...
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“Crocodile: The country is on the verge of a famine, and the United Nation has...”
– Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
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'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order... →
solitaryforager:
In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice. Initial reports from sources suggested that an ABC News camera was also prevented from taping the hearing; ABC has since denied that they...
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Jazeera "Activate" programme on the DREAM act and... →
A real passion of mine, this film does a good job in a concise enough way that I could show it to my students.
January 2012
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“I wonder if he’s right, if this hatred of Jews is one of those atavistic urges...”
– Peter Godwin: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
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Number of arrested Occupiers reaches over 6,000...
occupyallstreets:
Source
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The State of the Union
Two best pieces of Analysis I have seen:
State of the Union: Will the US be Saved by its Military? (Mark LeVine, UC Irvine)
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/2012125102724360795.html
And the article that follows
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Militarism mixed with empty liberal rhetoric
State of the Union address 2012
President Obama during State of the...
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“The Republican Primary is the biggest compeitition of ignorance and idiocy that...”
– Fidel Castro, Wise Words
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Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard rushed to... →
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“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
– Mao (though I would have to say I would add DIRECT bloodshed, cause US policies sure cause a bit of death)
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This is a phenominally fucking important video: 13... →
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“The effort to take Iran’s 2.6 million barrels of oil per day off...”
– EU approves Iranian Oil Ban - Jazeera
So wait a moment. More profit for Western oil companies. Death and starvtion for the Iranian people (and profits for anyone foreign middlemen selling to them), and a ban on hard currency ownership for the Iranian Bank. Meaning greater western Imperialist...
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Email from Oakland Police Chief to Mayor re: 19%... →
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“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady! I am all the contrary of a...”
– Ernesto “Che” Guevara
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Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain, together at last →
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Carbon dioxide emissions show record jumpLatest... →
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