June 2012
34 posts
2 tags
May 2012
46 posts
3 tags
2 tags
Blatant Corruption Uncovered as EU Blocks France’s... →
americawakiewakie:
Just after France legislators and officials moved to ban Monsanto’s genetically modified strain of GMO maize over environmental and health concerns, the European Union has decided to step in and re-secure Monsanto’s presence in the country — against the very will of the nation itself. This should come as no surprise when considering the fact that the United States ambassador...
3 tags
1 tag
Manning lawyers charge Army with withholding... →
sinidentidades:
Breanna [Bradley] Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the biggest leak of state secrets in US history, is being denied a fair trial because the army is withholding from them crucial information that might prove their innocence or reduce their sentence, their defence team is arguing.
With Manning’s court-martial approaching in September, their legal team has released...
2 tags
Watchtranslatingtheprintempserable:
An Open Letter to the Mainstream English Media:
Thank you; you are a little late to the party, and you are still missing the mark a lot of the time, but in the past few days, you have published some not entirely terrible articles and op-eds about what’s happening in Quebec right now. Welcome to our movement.
Some of you have even started mentioning that when...
1 tag
2 tags
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter - George Washington | #Quebec #Bill78
— Anonymous Operations (@Anon_Central) May 26, 2012
4 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
Who will drones target? Who in the US will decide?... →
theamericanbear:
John Brennan will:
White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in choosing which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure for both military and CIA targets.
The effort concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones within one small team at the White House.
The process, which is about a...
2 tags
2 tags
Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 Is Nothing... →
The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who are now charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. While the impression that appears in the media is one of remnants of the Occupy movement verging toward violence, the driving forces behind these plots are the very agencies...
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
“Here is the historical truth: at this late stage of capitalism, the financial...”
– Make the Choice: Wall Street or Society (via azspot)
2 tags
1 tag
One million dead in Iraq →
anticapitalist:
This is old but needs to be posted
OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America’s war.
That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people’s immediate reaction is, “That can’t be right,” because the United States couldn’t do that. Or because crimes on that scale don’t still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn’t rescued.
...
3 tags
How Safe is Our Food? More and more countries are... →
americawakiewakie:
More and more countries are banning imports of American food products for safety reasons.
Last week, Indonesia became the first country to halt imports of US beef following the discovery of an American dairy cow infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The disease is fatal to cows and can cause a deadly brain disease in people who eat tainted beef.
...
2 tags
“Poverty is not simply having no money — it is isolation, vulnerability,...”
– Megan Lee (via sociolab) poverty = violence. (via dead-dog-fred)
1 tag
susie-c:
Daniel Cardozo, Albany resident, on the...
1 tag
1 tag
Robert Reich: A Question of Timing: What America... →
robertreich:
Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders.
Referring to his own electoral woes, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote Monday in an article in the conservative Daily Telegraph: “When people think about the economy they don’t see it through the dry numbers of the deficit figures, trade balances or inflation forecasts — but instead...
3 tags
Hypocrisy: The Federal Government and #Marijuana |... →
anonymissexpress:
May 5, 2012
[…] In 2001, a patent on Cannabinoids (the psychoactive component of marijuana), was granted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They received it on the basis of the chemical’s antioxidant + neuroprotective properties, as well as the treatment potential for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
At least to me, those properties appear...
3 tags
1 tag
The Revolt Against the NDAA Hits Congress | Adam... →
The revolt against the NDAA has brought together organizations and activists that disagree on almost every other issue—tea party activists, the states’ rights Tenth Amendment Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Occupy Wall Street protesters. The NDAA is “waking people up to the idea that the federal government shouldn’t have this kind of power,” says Michael Boldin, the director of...
1 tag
1 tag
AlterNet-Occupy Wall Street: May Day Multimedia... →
alternetows:
Last night, AlterNet reporters Sarah Seltzer and Joshua Holland talked about the actions in NYC and the Bay Area, respectively, on The Big Picture With Thom Hartman:
How about some more pictures of the day? Here are all the albums from AlterNet staffers in New York and DC!
… more
1 tag
Watchsusie-c:
In November, after I was arrested while reporting on the General Strike in Oakland, Alameda County sheriffs and a nurse who didn’t identify herself made me pee into a cup. This was in an open cell, as other sheriffs, nurses and inmates walked by. I tried to do it quickly. I wanted to get it over with. I wanted to cooperate.
But I also wanted to know why I was being forced to take a...
