[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/hrI9gseOCwI.html width="480" height="302"] Minneapolis, MN, June 30, 2011. A group of dedicated peace activists rallied in front of Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to plead for the Senator’s help in voting down war appropriations and in bringing all troops home now from Afghanistan and Iraq. “The economy is in the can, US out of Afghanistan” More
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America’s Crippling Jobs Crisis (see article below after the Tomgram) Posted by Andy Kroll at 10:17am, July 5, 2011 TomDispatch.com Tomgram: Re Andy Kroll, The 60-Year Unemployment Scandal Americans care about them more than any other issue, so every poll tells More
Calling the Star Tribune to account: obvious bias in the headlines in Sunday's paper Dear Ms. Barnes: I was appalled to open the Star Tribune Sunday morning and read the biased headline about the shutdown: “Will the embattled governor stick to his principles or seek compromise”? The reality is that the governor has compromised several times. He was More
Our Afghan War: Immoral, Ilegal, Ineffective... and It Costs Too Much by Leah Bolger Published on Monday, July 4, 2011 CommonDreams.org The Afghanistan War. War itself is inherently immoral, but especially so when the fight is not between two state-sponsored militaries, but rather between a military superpower and a third-world country with 70% of More
People and Power: The Indignants Why Spain's young people took to the streets in protest at the economic crisis gripping their country. [And were joined by Spanish citizens of all ages and backgrounds.] Posted on english.aljazeera.net Demonstrations, marches, rallies. For months now hundreds of thousands of Europeans have been expressing their anger at government imposed austerity measures. Recently More
WikiLeaks: The motives of Bradley Manning Monday, July 4, 2011 Salon.com BY GLENN GREENWALD In New York Magazine, Steven Fishman has a lengthy profile of Bradley Manning that purports to shed new light on the accused WikiLeaks leaker. The only aspect of Fishman's article that's meaningfully new is a series of chat logs and other online communicationsManning More
Sabotaging Freedom Flotilla II Two of the foreign ships experienced similar forms of sabotage, creating allegations of Israeli responsibility. Richard Falk Last Modified: 02 Jul 2011 13:54 AlJazeera.net The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom Flotilla II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong More
SUN JUL 03, 2011 AT 06:50 AM PDT by Matt Wuerker for Comics All in favor...
Million Dollar Metaphors By Polly Mann One of the reasons that I subscribe to the British “Guardian Weekly” is that it covers a lot of news that the U.S.mainstream media does not. For example in its June 17th edition is an account of a project of the Intelligence Research Projects Activity, IARPA, into which the More
Message in a Bottle Posted by Kathy Kelly yesterday on her Facebook page. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXyR2_H0jXE&w=425&h=349]
Auntie, I Simply Can’t Imagine It! Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To Gaza, Aboard The Audacity of Hope June 20, 2011 alicewalkergarden.com/blog Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: What else would I do? I am in my sixty-seventh year, having lived More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LPyZhvGNg] Editorial note: This video is an excellent example about how the media can be manipulated to promote one viewpoint or another. All our electronic sources can easily be manipulated faked or edited for slant or downright lies, as this video shows. Not only the manipulation of videos, but the use of Twitter is More
