Tag Archives: Human Rights
Kathy Manley> I Was One of the Radicals at the Mosque
In Defense of Radicalism by KATHY MANLEY WEEKEND EDITION MAY 3-5, 2013 Counterpunch.org After the Boston Marathon bombing some media outlets have suggested that the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) was an incubator of radicalism because the Tsarnaev brothers occasionally worshipped there, and because they had permitted “radicals” who “defended terrorism suspects” to speak […]
Bill Moyers: “Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial.”
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Taking notes 17: The good intentions that pave the road to war
“The obsession with ‘genocide’ as the primary humanitarian issue in the world today relativizes war. It reverses the final judgment of the Nuremberg Trials that: ‘War is essentially an evil thing.’” by Diana Johnstone April 2, 2013 PhilosophyforChange.org Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping […]
Anti-Drone Protests at the NY Air National Guard Base at Hancock Field
Click the photo for the video> About 250 activists took part in an Anti-Drone Protest, outside the NY Air National Guard Base on East Malloy Road on Sunday April 28, 2013. The protest started in front of the Thompson Road entrance to the base. After several speeches, the protestors marched down East Malloy Road to […]
Norman Solomon> Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet
Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet “We have a profound, far-reaching fight on our hands, at a crossroads leading toward democracy or corporate monopoly.” By Norman Solomon March 27, 2013 NormanSolomon.com If your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel […]
Dahr Jamil> Living with No Future: Iraq, 10 Years Later
Living with No Future Iraq, 10 Years Later “[Iraq's] social fabric has been all but shredded by nearly a decade of brutal occupation by the U.S. military and now by the rule of an Iraqi government rife with sectarian infighting.” By Dahr Jamail March 26, 2013 TomDispatch.com Click here to read Nick Turse’s introduction to Jamil’s article. […]
As Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike, Gitmo Attorney on “Psychological Trauma of Indefinite Detention”
As Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike, Gitmo Attorney on “Psychological Trauma of Indefinite Detention” Published on Mar 13, 2013 Watch the full interview with Kristine Huskey on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/iS0Ip. More than 100 detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike sparked by deteriorating conditions. […]
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 […]
Liza Burr> The Purposeful Creation of Islamophobia
“Islamophobia has a much longer history in Europe than in the U.S., but there is now ample evidence that Islamophobia is a flourishing industry in this country.” By Liza Burr WorldwideWAMM.org November 2012 What is Islamophobia? Fifteen years ago, in 1997, the Runnymede Trust, a British think tank, identified eight components of Islamophobia. By this […]
Kathy Kelly: Obama’s Afghan Plan Displays “A Hawkish President Who Likes to Appear Dovish”
Published on Feb 13, 2013 To watch the full interview with Kathy Kelly on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/hGkru. As President Obama announces plans to withdraw another 34,000 troops from Afghanistan, longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly says his plan will still sadle Afghans with “ongoing war.” Kelly, the co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, has just returned from […]
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