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Counterspin Radio> Pardiss Kebriaei on Terror Speech, Bob McChesney on Digital Disconnect
Link: http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin053113.mp3 or Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Did Barack Obama’s National Defense University speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? That depended on who was doing the listening. For most corporate media, Obama made a sharp turn, speaking of more limited drone killing policies, and discussing the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. […]
Amy Goodman> President Obama Uses a Sledgehammer Against Dissent
From Jeremy Hammond to Bradley Manning and the AP, Obama’s ‘assault on journalism’ is a threat to our democracy by Amy Goodman Published on Friday, May 31, 2013 The Guardian/UK One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. Although these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who […]
Tomgram> Noam Chomsky> Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Eve of Destruction Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:02am, June 4, 2013 TomDispatch.com It didn’t take long. In the immediate aftermath of the dropping of the “victory weapon,” the atomic bomb, on two Japanese cities in August 1945, American fears and fantasies ran wild. Almost immediately, Americans began to reconceive themselves as potential victims […]
Glenn Greenwald> How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
On the eve of a new leak, widely trumpeted Pentagon accusations about the whistleblowing site have proven false Editor’s Note: This article from 2010 is still relevant today as the propaganda machine is in full operation. Thanks to Coleen Rowley for calling it to WAMMToday’s attention. BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, OCT 17, 2010 Salon.com **ADDS THAT AUTHORITIES […]
Idle No More and Defenders of the Land Call for Sovereignty Summer
Idle No More May 31st, 2013 via PopularResistance.org CALL TO ACTION A campaign of coordinated non-violent direct actions to promote Indigenous rights and environmental protection in alliance with non-Indigenous supporters. A declaration, jointly released with Defenders of the Land in March 2013, where a network of Indigenous communities, leaders, and activists involved in high-profile struggles […]
Ajamu Baraka> Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”
The normalization of war as a contemporary expression of the West’s responsibility to bring liberal democracy and capitalist freedom to the non-White hordes, and the fact that most of the people being killed in the process of “being saved” by the West are non-European, is a graphic confirmation of the White supremacist assumptions of humanitarian […]
Polly Mann> Messages Made Manifest
By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter May 2013 In my article in the March/April issue of the WAMM newsletter I overlooked one category of reasons why women might join the military, and an important one at that – they may truly believe that they can help spread democracy and bring freedom to other nations. That’s because people […]
Chris Hedges> ‘We Steal Secrets’: State Agitprop
The persecution of Manning and Assange is not an isolated act. It is part of a terrifying assault against our most important civil liberties and a free press. Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges Posted on Jun 2, 2013 Truthdig.com Alex Gibney’s new film, “We Steal Secrets,” is about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. It dutifully peddles the […]
Glenn Greenwald> Drone attacks continue, the FBI killed an unarmed witness, and Obama aides cash in
A video informally titled “the care and feeding of a young imperial bureaucrat” viscerally conveys the rot that is Washington Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 June 2013 11.05 EDT (updated below) The combination of extensive travel and being quite consumed with a story I’m working on has prevented me from writing for the last couple of days. […]
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