Tag Archives: Arab Spring
Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate
Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate Democrats and Republicans alike embrace torture and assassination policies that are an attack on 800 years of civil rights law. December 13, 2012 | CIVIL LIBERTIES AlterNet.org Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives / By Eric Bailey, Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky and Eric Bailey of Torture Magazine discuss America’s human rights record under President Obama, and the military […]
Sarah Martin> The Syria Situation
The Syria Situation by Sarah Martin, Women Against Military Madness Speech delivered in Minneapolis on International Human Rights Day December 8, 2012 Make no mistake about it. The U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) powers, along with their proxies Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are deeply responsible for the human rights disaster in Syria […]
Chomsky: America Acts Like It Owns the World, While Endangering the Planet from Nuclear War and Climate Change
Chomsky: America Acts Like It Owns the World, While Endangering the Planet from Nuclear War and Climate Change Inability to face the truth about ourselves in this country is all too common a feature across American society. By Noam Chomsky October 26, 2012 Democracy Now via AlterNet.org Note: In a recent speech, Professor Chomsky examined topics largely ignored […]
Russ Baker> The Hijacking of Arab Spring, and the Media’s Complicity
The Hijacking of Arab Spring, and the Media’s Complicity By Russ Baker (about the author) June 26, 2012 opednews.com This article cross-posted from WhoWhatWhy For those versed in the black arts of propaganda, the hijacking of Arab Spring must be a beauteous thing to behold. First came evidently spontaneous uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Then some […]
Danny Schechter> Are You “Spring Trained” For May Day?
Are You “Spring Trained” For May Day? By Danny Schechter 23 APRIL 2012 The Real News Our Own Stand Your Ground Message, 1894 …Let the winds lift your banners from far lands With a message of strife and of hope: Raise the Maypole aloft with its garlands That gathers your cause in […]
David Remnick> An Existential Threat Within Israel Threatens Its Democracy
Threatened by David Remnick March 12, 2012 Edition The New Yorker Posted March 5, 2012 on WAMMToday Democracy is never fully achieved. At best, it’s an ambition, a state of becoming. In America, it took generations for blacks, women, and gays and lesbians to win the rights of citizenship—rights that, in many instances, […]
How Empires Fall (Including the American One)> An Interview with Jonathan Schell
An Interview With Jonathan Schell How Empires Fall (Including the American One) by ANDY KROLL March 1, 2012 Tom Dispatch When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse. Americans were at war — and […]
Rolling Stone> Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism By MICHAEL HASTINGS January 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET Rolling Stone Assange poses for a portrait at his undisclosed location in the English countryside. Max […]
Robin Morgan> Occupying the Occupy Movement
Occupying the Occupy Movement Robin Morgan January 3, 2012 Women’s Media Center An Occupy movement for 2012 could gain strength and staying-power with strategies suggested by an emerging feminist critique. Mexico city collective, from Occuprint.org As women of the Arab Spring are rediscovering, being participants, even leaders, of the uprisings hasn’t led to women’s […]
Tomgram> Tom Engelhardt> Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? | TomDispatch
Tomgram> Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? Tom Engelhardt December 13, 2011 Tom Dispatch Of all American military training programs around the world, the most publicized in recent years has been the one building up a local security force to replace U.S. (and NATO) troops as they ever […]
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