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What Better Time for a New Social Movement?
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the WorldBy Stephen Lendman / April 23, 2008 Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason – soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around … Continue reading
Renters Getting Kicked by Housing Crisis, Too
Let’s recall what this really means: we are bailing the banks out while average Americans suffer the consequences of a corrupt financial system. We get kicked out of our homes, lose deposits, have to find new places to live, but … Continue reading
Edward Herman on the Imperial New World Order
Principles of the Imperial New World OrderBy Edward S. Herman and David Peterson / April 21, 2008 We have to recognize that in the Imperial New World Order (INWO), with the Soviet Union gone, and an aggressive and highly militarized … Continue reading
SDS Olympia Fights Back Against the Police State
SDS Group Banned After Ruckus at Dead Prez Concert: Clampdown at Evergreen By Ron Jacobs / April 21, 2008 A police car was overturned during a ruckus with local and campus police following a hiphop concert by the group Dead … Continue reading
Another Leftist Government for Latin America
Lugo RallyParaguay Changes: Elections End 60 Years of Right Wing RuleBy Michael Fox / April 21, 2008 Paraguay VotesAsuncion, Paraguay – Even before last night’s official results were announced, Lugo supporters were in the streets celebrating what many called a … Continue reading
We Think the BushCo Lie Is Bigger Than That
Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar AnalystsApril 21, 2008 The Sunday Times’ article detailing the massive, secret coordinated campaign by the Pentagon and all the leading television news channels to sell and defend the administration’s Iraq policy is a critical piece of … Continue reading
When Will BushCo Quit Being Such Total Morons?
Juan Cole characterises it perfectly: “Rice has her ‘bring ’em on moment’ in Iraq, talking trash to the Mahdi Army and calling Muqtada al-Sadr a ‘coward.’ Muqtada al-Sadr eluded Saddam Hussein for 4 years after Saddam killed his father and … Continue reading
BushCo Strikes Again: The Iraq Lie
It is no wonder the American public has no clue what is really happening in Iraq (or Afghanistan). Systematically, the Bush administration has been feeding you a lie about how well the surge is going, how calm it is in … Continue reading
The On-Going Battle Over What Seattle Will Be
There was an article in the Seattle Times last October about the transformation of the area around south Lake Union. I was visiting for a little big city culture, and I could see from the hotel window all the cranes … Continue reading
Media Mediocrity: "Who the Fuck Cares?"
Media Shit Storms and Heartland RealityBy Joe Bageant There seems to be no end to the media mediocrity we must suffer in this country. Now we have the Obama Guns, God and Bitterness shit storm, with the shit pouring forth … Continue reading
The Ever-Expanding Private Security Empire
FBI Abuse of “National Security Letters” — New Revelationsby Tom Burghardt / April 19, 2008 When biochemist Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar was released from custody in Cairo in 2005, no one could have be more relieved than the vacationing former … Continue reading
