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Glenn Greenwald: UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA’s view of drone opponents as ‘threats’ and ‘adversaries’

A top secret NSA document provides context for yesterday's abusive detention of Baraa Shiban • Read the excerpts of the drone document here Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Wednesday 25 September 2013 13.17 EDT A well-known and highly respected Yemeni anti-drone activist was detained yesterday by UK officials under that country's "anti-terrorism" law at Gatwick Airport, where he had traveled to speak More

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Glenn Greenwald: UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries'

A top secret NSA document provides context for yesterday's abusive detention of Baraa Shiban • Read the excerpts of the drone document here Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Wednesday 25 September 2013 13.17 EDT A well-known and highly respected Yemeni anti-drone activist was detained yesterday by UK officials under that country's "anti-terrorism" law at Gatwick Airport, where he had traveled to speak More

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William Boardman: Weapons of Mass Destruction Wanted?

Vermont city to consider protecting neighbors from Air Force F-35 attack A F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (photo: unknown) By William Boardman 22 September 13 ReaderSupportedNews.org ith Vermont's highest elected officials still deep in Defense Dept. denial over the disaster that is the Air Force's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a local city council threatens to More

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Timothy Karr: Verizon’s Plan to Break the Internet

Verizon has big plans for the Internet. And if that doesn't worry you, it should. by Timothy Karr Published on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Save The Internet. Posted on CommonDreams.org The company is trying to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order, which prevents Internet service providers from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content. More

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Timothy Karr: Verizon's Plan to Break the Internet

Verizon has big plans for the Internet. And if that doesn't worry you, it should. by Timothy Karr Published on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Save The Internet. Posted on CommonDreams.org The company is trying to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order, which prevents Internet service providers from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content. More

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▶ [Video] Ed Asner Breaks the Set on 9/11 Truth, the Hollywood Left, and Syria Intervention

[youtube=http://youtu.be/Pp-rAswo4Xg] Published on Sep 13, 2013 Abby Martin talks to legendary actor and activist, Ed Asner, discussing 9/11 questions, US intervention in Syria, the declining role of Hollywood's anti-war left and his charity work with his organization Autism Speaks. breakingtheset Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS More

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Photos: CODEPINK Peace Insurrection encampment outside Congress

CODEPINK activists and allies set up a camp known as the ‘Peace Insurrection’ outside of Congress...See more TCHallMedia September 13, 2013 on Flickr CODEPINK activists and allies set up a camp known as the ‘Peace Insurrection’ outside of Congress at the corners of Independence and New Jersey avenues, calling for no military intervention in Syria. More

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Popular Resistance Newsletter – In The Midst Of A Transformational Moment

NEWSLETTER DEMOCRACY, EDUCATION, FINANCE AND THE ECONOMY, SYRIA, WARS AND MILITARISM By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org September 13th, 2013 In the last two weeks we witnessed the rise of the American people against a war in Syria. People pushed a cross-partisan coalition in Congress that created a lop-sided majority so large Obama knew he would lose a vote. This right-left coalition stopped a More

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Chris Hedges> Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition

“Obama used [Martin Luther] King’s Bible during his inauguration, but under the National Defense Authorization Act King would be detained without due process. By Chris Hedges Posted on Sep 9, 2013 truthdig.com Princeton University professor Cornel West, left, hugs a protester while marching with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York. AP/Bebeto Matthews More

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Chris Hedges> Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition

“Obama used [Martin Luther] King’s Bible during his inauguration, but under the National Defense Authorization Act King would be detained without due process. By Chris Hedges Posted on Sep 9, 2013 truthdig.com Princeton University professor Cornel West, left, hugs a protester while marching with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York. AP/Bebeto Matthews More

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Emmanuel Ortiz: Before I Start This Poem

"A time has come when silence is betrayal. That time is now." MLK Before I Start This Poem by Emmanuel Ortiz Before I start this poem, I'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honour of those who died in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon last September 11th. More

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[Video] Noam Chomsky: Chomsky: 9/11 and Syria and Instead of “Illegal” Syria Threat, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban Worldwide

Part I [youtube=http://youtu.be/T0HWMUIr9Yo] Part 2 [youtube=http://youtu.be/tDiLHuWHbBQ] democracynow Published on Sep 11, 2013 Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, weighs in on today’s 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks and how the civil war in Syria appears destined to permanently break the country apart. "[9/11] was very significant, a major terrorist act, More

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