Bill talks to RoseAnn DeMoro, who heads the largest registered nurses union in the country, and will lead a Chicago march protesting economic inequality on May 18. DeMoro is championing the Robin Hood Tax, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like stocks and bonds.
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com
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The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead — because victory won’t come quickly — it could prove a significant moment in American history.
The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it’s an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning point in American history. For centuries, since the country began, it had been a developing society, and not always in very pretty ways. That’s another story, but the general progress was toward wealth, industrialization, development, and hope. There was a pretty constant expectation that it was going to go on like this. That was true even in very dark times. Read more…
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By Debra Sweet
The world upside down is the natural reality of a gargantuan system based on lies.
Rahm Emanuel: a ruthless enforcer for Clinton and now Obama, currently filling the post of Mayor of Chicago.
The most heavily armed empire in world history occupies and has destroyed whole countries, has a system of indefinite detention and torture for Muslims in place, and is expanding secret military operations across the region. But the biggest danger to peace is some hundreds or thousands of people protesting the Chicago meeting of the NATO military alliance next week? Read more…
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Summary of False Flag Operations and False Flag Terrorism
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades and ultimately killed in 1978. It has since been known that the Red Brigades were deeply infiltrated and manipulated by Western intelligence services as a tool to manufacture chaos and terror in Italian society.
“False flag terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it:
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy’s strategy of tension.
The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy’s flag was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a “false flag” attack. Read more…
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Saboteur
An interview with a domestic insurgent
“The real crazies are those who go along with this system and think they’re sane.”
From the book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
I FIRST MET THE MAN WE’LL CALL TRUCKER in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam War. Our demo was going to start on the Berkeley campus and continue with a march down Telegraph Avenue. This was shortly after the National Guard and police had murdered six demonstrators at Kent State and Jackson State, so the mood was extremely tense. The Berkeley city government had denied us a permit to march and called in police reinforcements from Oakland. The Oakland cops had a reputation for brutality (based on their treatment of the black population), and we were expecting an ugly and possibly violent confrontation. Out of fear, many people decided not to march, but others of us argued that marching was now more important than ever. We needed to defy the government’s attempts to scare us into silence. Read more…
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