Category Archives: Other Current Issues
Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 – Gaza and the UN resolution
Some day, and it must be soon, the world will respond to the plea issued by the distinguished Gazan human rights lawyer Raji Sourani while the bombs were once again raining down on defenseless civilians in Gaza: “We demand justice and accountability. We dream of a normal life, in freedom and dignity.” Special Report | […]
Norman Solomon> How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
How to Build a Grassroots Power Base By Norman Solomon The Nation | Op-Ed Monday, 12 November 2012 via truthout.org Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary. September 17, 2012. (Photo: Sunset Parkerpix) Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for […]
An Election Protection Agenda for 2016
An Election Protection Agenda for 2016 “Winning all this will require the usual blood, sweat and tears of a long, hard national grassroots campaign. Since Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, we have made great strides in exposing the corrupt nature of an all-too-vulnerable electoral system.” By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press Monday, 12 November 2012 14:25| […]
After Three Shootings, America Needs Zero Tolerance on Guns
If we are going to take aim at anything, then let it be at America’s unhealthy obsession with guns and at the empty arguments against gun control, not at common sense. Not Senseless, Not Random: The Deadly Mix of Race, Guns & Madness 60 Mass Shootings Since Tucson Sanjay Sanghoee, Huffington Post Submitted by David […]
Walker Art Center> Cute Cats> I Can Haz a Film Fest?
Walker Art Center> Cute cats take over the world Too adorable! Everyone’s favorite viral obsession is about to become enshrined in museums and film festivals BY HELEN STUHR-ROMMEREIM, FULL STOP via Salon.com SATURDAY, JUL 21, 2012 Next month, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will be holding the Internet Cat Video Film Festival (ICVFF), presenting a near-universal but mostly private […]
Noam Chomsky: Suicidal Policies vs Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and Life!
We’re a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic “suicide” Chomsky says. But there are glimmers of possibility. America’s Economic Suicide Gloomy Economic Prospects Laura Flanders and Noam Chomsky, GRITtv<http://grittv.org> Submitted by David Culver Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and […]
Nygaard Notes #509: The Voter Empowerment Act
These are real problems, in contrast with the non-problem of “voter fraud” that is offered as justification for the unprecedented attack on voting rights that is underway in this country, and about which I have been reporting for the past several months. As Georgia Congressman John Lewis pointed out recently, “Since the beginning of last […]
Why Won’t They Listen?
‘The Righteous Mind’ ~ Jonathan Haidt A psychologist argues that people base decisions on moral intuition, not reason George Monbiot | Right’s Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by Too-Polite Left Reviewed by William Saletan, New York (NY) Times Submitted by David Culver You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand […]
Lakota Indians Block ‘Keystone XL Pipeline’ Trucks in Six-Hour Standoff
The XL Pipeline trucks are refusing to turn around claiming they have corporate rights that supersedes any other laws. –KILI, a Pine Ridge Rez radio station Special Report | The Keystone Pipeline Revolt Jorge Rivas, ColorLines Submitted by David Culver According to the Rapid City (SD) Journal “several dozens” of American Indians were part of […]
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