Monthly Archives: January 2012
Sen. Franken and Conservatives Unite to Fight Indefinite Detention
Sen. Franken and Conservatives Unite to Fight Indefinite Detention By Joe Picard and Jeremy Herb, The Hill 28 January 12 RSN trange bedfellows on Capitol Hill, ranging from Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.), are joining forces to change controversial detainee language that was signed into law by President Obama last […]
Noam Chomsky> Remembering Howard Zinn
Noam Chomsky was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. (photo: Ben Rusk/flickr) Remembering Howard Zinn By Noam Chomsky, Al Jazeera via RSN 27 January 12 Editor’s note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position […]
Tom Engelhardt> Tomgram> Iran Through the Looking Glass
Tomgram: Iran Through the Looking Glass By Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2012 Tom Dispatch Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian […]
Anne Winkler Morey Blog> Observations in Las Cruces and El Paso/Juarez
WAMM members Anne and David Winkler-Morey have been biking the country since June of 2011. They have shared their observations during this trip on a blog. All the entries over the months are interesting, but this perspective, one we don’t often get, on immigration and workers rights in Texas and New Mexico, along with conditions […]
One response to Responses to Kevin Zeese> Chris Hedges Examines the Strategy of Occupy Washington DC
Reblogged from WAMMToday: One response to Responses to Kevin Zeese> Chris Hedges Examines the Strategy of Occupy Washington DC Kevin Zeese January 31, 2012 I agree that opposition to war and empire need to continue to be near the top of the agenda of the Occupy Movement. The Freedom Plaza occupation has been aggressive on that protesting […]
Video> How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat> A Conversation with Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges
How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat A Conversation With Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig Monday 30 January 2012 TruthOut Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig, Yes! Magazine | Interview and Video Protesters against Citizens United demonstrate outside the Sacramento Capitol, California, January 21, 2012. (Photo: Public Citizen) “We’ve undergone a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion. And it’s […]
Opposing NATO in Chicago May 19, 2012
Why Go to Opposing NATO in Chicago May 19, 2012? Uploaded by ChicagoClout on Jan 29, 2012 Many people are going to oppose NATO Summit in Chicago May 19, 2012. We made series of TV shows that will explain why folks are protesting the NATO G8 Summit. Occupy Chicago and others will attend the march that will leave […]
Video> Covert Drone War> Analysis: New rules in play as CIA drones return to Pakistan skies
Covert Drone War Analysis: New rules in play as CIA drones return to Pakistan skies January 10th, 2012 | by Chris Woods | Published in Covert Drone War, Views from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Drone War in Numbers Total reported killed: 2,380 – 3,007 Civilians reported killed: 391 – 780 Children reported killed: 175 Total reported injured: 1,174-1,261 Total strikes: 311 Obama […]
Tomgram: Christian Parenti, Big Storms Require Big Government
Tomgram: Christian Parenti, Big Storms Require Big Government Posted by Christian Parenti at 9:11am, January 26, 2012 TomDispatch At some basic level, climate change shouldn’t be hard to grasp. Fossil-fuel burning — the essence of our civilization since the industrial revolution — dumps prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. As it happens, 2010 was […]
Christian Parenti> Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government
Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government A Secret History of Free Enterprise and the Government That Made It Possible By Christian Parenti TomDispatch Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half […]
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