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[Video] Gil Scott-Heron – Work For Peace

Work for Peace  ribeye Uploaded on Apr 19, 2009 Gil Scott-Heron My music video of a timeless song with picture’s i lifted off flickr Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to […]

NLG> Court rules peace activists can sue the U.S. military for infiltration

Court rules peace activists can sue the U.S. military for infiltration By davidswanson - Posted on 18 December 2012 warisacrime.org   National Lawyers Guild December 18, 2012 Nathan Tempey, Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org (212) 679-5100, ext. 15 New York Guild lawyer hails historic decision In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Guild lawyer’s challenge […]

Bill Moyers Video Interview> Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election

Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012 If we’ve learned anything from the 2012 race, it’s that American politics have gotten way out of our control. Our guest Tom Engelhardt says that, like our sodas and our military, our elections have become “supersized.” In this web-exclusive interview, filmed before Hurricane Sandy […]

David Swanson> Drowning on Wall Street and Ending World War II

Drowning on Wall Street and Ending World War II  The Marshall Plan was a plan for domination — smarter and more skillful domination than some other attempts — but still domination.  U.S. capitalist control was the highest purpose.  By David Swanson (about the author)     OpEdNews Op Eds 10/30/2012  Imagine if George W. Bush had stood on the smoking ruins […]

William Astore> Huffington Post> Are Drones Keeping Us in a Losing Cause Longer?

Are Drones Keeping Us in a Losing Cause Longer? William Astore  Posted: 09/26/2012 11:22 am Huffington Post There’s little question that unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are helping to save the lives of U.S. and NATO troops in places like Afghanistan while aiding in the killing of terrorist suspects in regions largely inaccessible to ground troops. But the […]

Chris Hedges> Criminalizing Dissent

Criminalizing Dissent Photo by CTJ71081 (CC-BY) By Chris Hedges   Posted on Aug 13, 2012    truthdig.com I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest last Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense […]

Predator drones to start operations over North Dakota

Predator drones to start operations over North Dakota Published: 27 July, 2012, 22:03   RT   The FAA has authorized the use of remote-controlled Predator drones in the airspace above nearly 10,000 acres in North Dakota. As of this fall, unmanned military aircraft will use lasers to aim at ground targets from nearly 2 miles above […]

Chris Hedges> The Perversion of Scholarship

The Perversion of Scholarship By Chris Hedges    Jul 30, 2012    truthdig.com Illustration by Mr. Fish Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics, creativity and ideas—are shouted down […]

Mother Jones> Understanding a New Era of PTSD> What PTSD means for soldiers in a time of shadow wars.

Understanding a New Era of PTSD> What PTSD means for soldiers in a time of shadow wars. —By Nan Levinson | Thu Jun. 28, 2012    Mother Jones This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The U.S. Army/Flickr “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of a Marine, a woman […]

Video> Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders

Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders Published: 31 May, 2012   Edited: 01 June, 2012   RT A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network shows people watching the mass burial on May 26, 2012 of more than 100 victims killed in the central Syrian city […]

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