Tag Archives: Globalization/Empire
LEAH BOLGER> Living Under Drones: A First-Person Report from the Peace Delegation to Pakistan
LEAH BOLGER> Living Under Drones: A First-Person Report from the Peace Delegation to Pakistan Leah Bolger, current board member and previous national president of Veterans for Peace, will speak at the WAMM Annual Meeting, March 23, 2013 on “Living Under Drones.” Leah is a member of the Peace Caravan that went to Pakistan in October 2012 […]
ACLU Liberty Watch> American Pie
The Preamble The Constitution and the Campaign Trail: A Weekly Update www.ACLULibertyWatch.org July 3, 2012 AMERICAN PIE While President Obama is picnicking at Camp David and Mitt Romney is busy competing in his family Olympiad, ACLU Liberty Watch is hard at work defending the Constitution. We’re sorry to report thatA an apple pie was pulled […]
Noam Chomsky> Somebody Else’s Atrocities
Somebody Else’s Atrocities by Noam Chomsky Published: Monday 4 June 2012 Nation of Change In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us – whoever “us” is. In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, […]
How the Media Is Taking Us Toward War With Iran
Media lies and the onset of war. Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget. Robert Parry | Slip-Sliding to War with Iran davidswanson, War Is a Crime .org Submitted by David Culver Media lies and the onset of war. More (video)… Related: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. […]
American Spring> National Occupation of Washington DC (NOW DC) | October 2011
National Occupation of Washington DC (NOW DC)> March 30, 2012 Join together in Washington, DC for an Occupied American Spring By Kevin Zeese – Posted on 09 November 2011 “We the People” are calling Occupations from across the country to join together for an American Spring in Washington, DC. The National Occupation of Washington DC […]
Deal With It: They Died in Vain, by Ray McGovern
Deal With It They Died in Vain By Ray McGovern Counterpunch August 8, 2011 Thanks to Coleen Rowley for recommending this article. Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as “heroes” the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission […]
A Secret War in 120 Countries The Pentagon’s New Power Elite
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military Posted by Nick Turse at 6:21pm, August 3, 2011. tomdispatch.com In “Getting bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker report on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, here’s the money sentence, according to Noah Shachtman of Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog: “The Abbottabad raid was not DEVGRU’s maiden venture into Pakistan, […]
The price of war for Minnesotans
The price of war for Minnesotans Article by: JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER and BILL HILTY Updated: July 25, 2011 – 7:02 PM Star Tribune.com Budget gap could have been easily closed with the money we send away. MinnesotaASAP@gmail.com U.S. soldiers in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Photo: David Goldman, Associated Press Citizens in Minnesota are being encouraged to see scarcity […]
Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism? by Ralph Nader
Counterpunch Weekend Edition July 22 / 24, 2011 If They’re Not Loyal to Us, Why Should We be Loyal to Them? Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism? By RALPH NADER The fireworks and celebrations that mark Independence Day are over. But the need for a national conversation on corporate patriotism has never been more […]
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