Plutonomy and the Precariat> On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained More
Plutonomy and the Precariat> On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained More
Noam Chomsky> Occupy Points to a “Different Way of Living” Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:11 By John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus | Book Review truthout Noam Chomsky. (Photo: Jean-Baptiste LABRUNE / Flickr) Noam Chomsky is uniquely skilled to provide context to the Occupy movement and encourage its growth into new stages of energetic initiatives. More
Noam Chomsky> Occupy Points to a “Different Way of Living” Thursday, 26 April 2012 14:11 By John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus | Book Review truthout Noam Chomsky. (Photo: Jean-Baptiste LABRUNE / Flickr) Noam Chomsky is uniquely skilled to provide context to the Occupy movement and encourage its growth into new stages of energetic initiatives. More
What the Laws of War Allow> Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes — Or the Poverty of International Law? By Chase Madar April 15, 2012 TomDispatch Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war — that corpus of regulations More
Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran By Juan Cole April 12, 2012 TomDispatch It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm More
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US Plans for Nuclear Drones ‘On Hold’… For Now ‘Political realities’ hamstring attempt to bring ‘flying nuclear power plants’ to the skies Common Dreams staff Monday, April 2, 2012 Common Dreams American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the More
Belgium> 500 activists close NATO [Editor's Note: Below are articles from DeWereldMorgen and Le Monde and links to other articles. Note the translation is literal via Google Translate, and therefore a bit rough.] by Keltoum Belorf 1 april 2012 http://w ww.dewereldmorgen.be/ Today, about 500 peace activists from more than ten European countries are taking part More
America Afghanistan and American imperialism By Glenn Greenwald March 21, 2012 OpEdNews This article cross-posted from The Guardian Staff sergeant Robert Bales, left, is accused of shooting dead 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children. Photograph: Ryan Hallock/AFP/Getty Images US army staff sergeant Robert Bales is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, More
Protesters to march on May 20 opening of NATO summit in Chicago By Staff | March 15, 2012 FightBack!News Press conference announcing NATO summit protest moved to May 20 (Photo: Nerissa Allegretti) Chicago, IL - A press conference was held here today, March 15, to announce a change of plans for anti NATO/G8 marchers. Joe More
Reclaiming the Commons> Taking Human Lessons in the Era of H.R. 347, Corporatism and Perpetual War Thursday 15 March 2012 Phil Rockstroh Nation of Change “While Republicans desire to set clocks back to the Bronze Age — Democrats now run on Republican Standard Time, as collectively, the nation’s citizenry continues to roll over and More
