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William Rivers Pitt | Land of the Free, Unless You're a Woman
"....With Tuesday’s orders, the conservative majority has effectively endorsed the idea that religious objections to insurance that covers any form of preventative healthcare for women have merit." By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Friday, 04 July 2014 09:15 Rise Up Times Editor's Note: Across the world women are under attack. Women in America did not expect these attacks to More
William Rivers Pitt | Land of the Free, Unless You’re a Woman
"....With Tuesday’s orders, the conservative majority has effectively endorsed the idea that religious objections to insurance that covers any form of preventative healthcare for women have merit." By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Friday, 04 July 2014 09:15 Rise Up Times Editor's Note: Across the world women are under attack. Women in America did not expect these attacks to More
Cartoon: Iraq Reunion Tour by Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore's new hilarious animation features a hot summer "I Raq" concert, starring Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmed Chalabi, and more neocon war criminals parading all over the news discussing the crisis in Iraq. Read about Fiore's inspiration for "Neocon Reunion Tour" and watch the animation. To watch the animated cartoon, click here. By Mark Fiore More
Rivera Sun: FCC Internet Proposal — The Contemporary Pillage of the Commons
Act now to save the internet: Public comment period is open, and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler needs to hear from citizens. Learn more. By Rivera Sun Truthout.org Op-Ed 29 June 2014 Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speaks during an open meeting in Washington, Dec. 12, 2013. (Photo: Daniel Rosenbaum / The New York Times) Seething More
Ending Empire and the War Culture that Supports It are as Important as Confronting Wall Street.
This week, President Obama told congressional leaders that he did not need any authorization for the use of military force from Congress, but that he would keep congressional leadership informed of his actions. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.alternet.org June 22, 2014 PopularResistance.org For translations of this page go to PopularResistance.org. In the last week, there has More
Steve Russell: ALEC Threatening Indian Country
Beware of the Smart ALEC: The Lobbyists Threatening Indian Country Steve Russell ResistPrivatationofAmerica 16 February 2014 The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is God’s gift to corporate America, tying it directly to elected legislators and providing the vehicle for the interests of corporate persons to trump the interests of human persons What ALEC “exchanges” are model More
Michael Ratner: WikiLeaks editor remains unjustly holed up in Ecuadoran Embassy two years later.
Michael Ratner USAToday June 17, 2014 (Photo: David Paul Morris, Bloomberg) A whistle-blower living in exile in Russia. A publisher seeking the asylum he has already been granted while his sources are imprisoned. This isn't the cast of a summer blockbuster. It's a perfect storm of real-life cases that make it clear that constitutional More
Nafeez Ahmed: The Inclusive Capitalism Initiative is Trojan Horse to quell coming global revolt
. . . proposed ‘reforms’ offer ways to rehabilitate perceptions of powerful businesses and corporations, in order to head-off rising worker discontent and thus keep the system going, while continuing to maximise profits for the few at the expense of the planet. By Nafeez Ahmed The Guardian Wednesday, May 28, 2014 TheRawStory.com Yesterday’s [5/27/14] Conference on More
▶ Glenn Greenwald: No Place to Hide
In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald traces the discovery and extent of the massive surveillance apparatus constructed by the National Security Agency. [youtube=http://youtu.be/ApY7MVeoldo] Published on May 15, 2014 Audio-only version: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-... Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this More
Polychroniou interviews Giroux: The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left
The economic crisis is not matched by a crisis of ideas and many people have surrendered to a neoliberal ideology that limits their sense of agency by defining them primarily as consumers, subjects them to a pervasive culture of fear, blames them for problems that are not of their doing, and leads them to believe More
Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination
A White House lawyer seems determined to demolish our civil liberties. . . . in order to carry out violence and subversion abroad, or repression and violation of fundamental rights at home, state power has regularly sought to create the misimpression that it is terrorists that we are fighting, though there are other options: drug More