Occupied Territory – Romneyville – 08/16/12
Resistance at Romneyville; protest at the Republican National Convention. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.4MB) | Embed
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Graham Peebles — Incarcerated Inside Israel Palestinians Tortured And Isolated
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children. Currently there are, according to B’T selem “4,484 Palestinians …
Stephen Lendman — Crimes Against Humanity
Israel commits daily crimes against humanity. Intermittently, crimes or war are committed. For decades, Palestinians have been ruthlessly persecuted and denied justice. Dozens of incidents occur daily. Media scoundrels suppress or ignore them. On July 30, Israel placed 10 International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists in administrative detention uncharged. ISM resists …
Jim Hightower — Turning College Students into a Commodity After graduation, students’ incomes would be “attached” by financiers.
Let’s take a trip deep into the magic kingdom of “Laissez Fairyland” and prostrate ourselves before the infallible and inscrutable force known as the free market. While this awesome deity cannot be seen, the high priests of free-market fundamentalism insist that we mere mortals must simply have faith that its …
ROBERT HUNZIKER — The New Transnational Elite
The world’s epicenter of capitalism is the United States, and its reach/power/influence circumnavigates the globe. The elites of the capitalist class are no longer tied to territoriality or driven by national competition. “U.S. capitalism has expanded its reach by morphing into a Transnational Capitalist Class.” according to William Robinson …
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich — Sanctions: Diplomacy’s Weapon of Mass Murder
In 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski immediately killing 120,000 civilians. The final death toll of the horrendous bombings has been conservatively estimated at well over 200,000 men, women, and children. To this day, the world continues to be …
James Petras — The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition
One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the Executive Branch of government, the extraordinary growth of an entire panoply of repressive agencies, with hundreds of thousands of …
Natasha Lennard – After National Gathering, Is There Room for Insurrectionary Anarchism in #Occupy?
By Natasha Lennard, Truthout On a scorching afternoon recently in Philadelphia’s Franklin Square, where Occupy’s National Gathering participants had set up a daytime base, small circles of people – from gray-haired peace activists and Code Pink members clutching candy-colored parasols, to crust punks rolling cigarettes in the shade and many more – …
Japan’s largest anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo draws over 170,000
Despite the scorching heat on Monday, July 16th, more than 170,000 protesters marched through Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park to demand the government bring an end to Japan’s use of nuclear power. As anti-nuclear protests have been occurring nearly every week since the end of March, this easily marks the largest in …
Rebecca Burns – Occupy, Internet Freedom Groups Join Protests Against ‘NAFTA of the Pacific’
If the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) is signed at the end of this year, it may rewrite the rules of the global economy for the foreseeable future. That’s because the TPP, currently being negotiated between the U.S. and eight Pacific rim countries, will likely remain open for other countries …
ACTA Is DEAD After European Parliament Vote
Proof that when citizens band together, meaningful change is still possible: Today at 12:56 CET, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a 478 to 39 vote, the Parliament decided to reject ACTA once and for all. This …
The Burt Cohen Show – 07/03/12
American mainstream media has pretty much ignored the massive uprising which has overwhelmed Montreal. On May 22, there were 400,000 people in the streets, all in violation of a new law banning such protests. The spark was a sudden 75% increase in tuition for university. Guest on this show is …
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Tens of thousands protest Japan nuclear restart
TOKYO: Tens of thousands of people rallied outside the Japanese premier’s residence in Tokyo Friday, in what organisers said was one of the largest demonstrations held against the restart of nuclear reactors. The protesters, carrying placards which read “Rise up against the restart”and “The nuclear era is over” lined the …
Demonstrations against ACTA in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe | ACTA
Tomorrow, Saturday 9 June, there will be about 120 demonstrations against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Most of them take place in Europe, but there will also be demonstrations in Sendai (Japan), Montreal (QC, Canada) and New York (US). See this map, Stopp-ACTA and Access Now. ACTA is not dead, see EDRi: ACTA – the …
Chris Hedges – “This is the Future”
What was left of electoral politics in the United States gasped and sputtered to its extinction with the 2010 Supreme Court ruling known as Citizens United. At that point the game was over. Legalized bribery now defines the political process. The most retrograde elements of corporate capitalism, such as the …