Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists
Green Scare Continues by STEVE HORN Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska [1] show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) [2] tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska [3], labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges. Did you like this? Share it:
Awake and Take Back Your Republic! by WILLIAM O’CONNOR “I’ll let you have the $10,000 for three points. That’s only because I know you.” I’m listening to Tony yak, my Shylock. Yak, yak has earned the moniker. He never gives his mouth a rest. Yak’s giving me the loan at street price: $30 for every [...]
By Kevin Zeese [2], Margaret Flowers [3] When Edward Snowden [4] reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their [...]
Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
Surveillance and the Corporate State by ROB URIE With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’ While actual attacks have been spectacular—they were designed to garner attention, they are both rare and far less dangerous than opportunistic politicians [...]
The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
By Chris Hedges FORT MEADE, Md.—The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that [...]
Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
Whistleblowing in the Name of the Constitution by CHRISTOPHER H. PYLE Edward Snowden may go down inhistory as one of this nation’s most important whistleblowers. He is certainly one of the bravest. The 29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor has admitted to disclosing top secret documents about [...]
Camping Out: Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful”
From our archives— Camping Out: Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” Kurt Jacobsen [from New Politics, vol. 7, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 27, Summer 1999] KURT JACOBSEN is a research associate in political science at the University of Chicago and reviews films for the London Guardian. Prefatory note: As a movie buff I was baffled and [...]
Memorable quotes from Snowden interview
Free citizen Dennis Leahy, affiliated with Facebook’s group Edward Snowden Supporters, to which I also subscribe, is making the following material available. Share as widely as you can.—Sean Lenihan Here is a listing of 27 quotes, pulled from the Edward Snowden interview: #1 “The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting [...]
Murdoch and accomplice, Brooks, until recently CEO of Newscorp.
It’s been fascinating to watch from Australia as the News of the World scandal engulfs Britain.
Rupert Murdoch himself was, of course, originally one of ours, and those antipodean origins are often cited to explain his self-perception as an outsider in international media, a crass colonial pitting himself against the stuffy clubmen who once controlled London’s newspapers. Continue reading »
Obama and Congress now plan completing their financial coup d’etat, ending America’s social contract, leaving retirees, working households, and impoverished millions on their own sink or swim…Only revolutionary change, impeaching Obama, and routing bipartisan criminals can stop them. It’s high time public anger demanded it.
Two of the top charlatans destroying the future of the American people.
Short of finalizing details and assuring enough bipartisan support, it’s a done deal to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending while leaving outsized military budgets and generous handouts to corporate favorites in place.
At the same time, the timeline to accomplish it is undetermined. Political posturing may extend the August 2 deadline until fall or beyond. It’s how corrupted Washington always works, notably since the 1980s under both parties. Obama was elected to assure continuity and accomplish by rhetorical duplicity what Republicans on their own can’t do.
Notably after capitulating last December on tax cuts for America’s super-rich, he proposed deep budget cuts, affecting disease prevention, children’s and community healthcare, education, supplemental grants to poor women and children, community block grants for housing, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and other benefits for people most in need. Continue reading »
Patrick Martin, of the Socialist Equality Party, on the current deficit talks and what they really mean for the American people
GOP's Mitch McConnell: Obama's prominent partner in the deficit deception.
There was a revealing reaction from the White House Wednesday after the top Senate Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, proposed a procedural end run around the current impasse between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans over raising the federal debt ceiling. The proposal would allow Obama to raise the debt ceiling without the enactment of spending cuts, unless Congress overrode his veto, an unlikely prospect.
House Republicans denounced the proposal because it would mean the abandonment of their current effort to use the debt ceiling deadline to press for major cuts in social programs. Obama’s press secretary Jay Carney adopted essentially the same standpoint, saying that the administration was still committed to “seizing this unique opportunity to come to agreement on significant, balanced deficit reduction.” Continue reading »
July 15, 2011
The hypocritical clamor for Murdoch’s head all of a sudden reaches deafening proportions, especially among politicians who not too long ago were eager participants in the billionaire’s farandula of malicious reactionism and corruption.
Rebekah Brooks: Until recently CEO for Newscorp, and a protegé of Ruper Murdoch. Sleazy but far from anomalous in today's media executive culture.
‘The world is changing’, declared the Guardian in a ‘revolutionary week’. ‘This is our Berlin Wall moment’, tweeted Guardian columnist George Monbiot. ‘Our democracy is stronger’, proclaimed the Independent. For BBC political editor Nick Robinson, it was an ‘avalanche’ that was ‘still moving’. ‘Gravity’, he intoned, ‘cannot be defied for ever.’ Someone at this very moment may well be writing the script for ‘Avalanche!’, the next blockbuster movie from a major Hollywood studio (but probably not 20th Century Fox.) Continue reading »