With a billion users, Facebook is far and away the largest player in the world of corporate social media, so all these criticisms apply to Facebook. But many also apply to Twitter, Pinterest and their little brothers as well. Bruce A. Dixon BAR.com June 17, 2014 by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For More
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
Assange on his two years of asylum | MSNBC. NOW MSNBC Alex Wagner June 19, 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/MWRiyXXvaZs] Julian Assange discusses his time spent in embassy asylum, and the efforts being made by some organizations to have charges against him dropped. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times More
Assange on his two years of asylum | MSNBC. NOW MSNBC Alex Wagner June 19, 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/MWRiyXXvaZs] Julian Assange discusses his time spent in embassy asylum, and the efforts being made by some organizations to have charges against him dropped. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times More
"According to a search of the Nexis news database, Manning's op-ed received scant coverage. . . . In the abstract, journalists often profess a great deal of admiration for whistleblowers, and value the service such individuals provide to the news media. " By Peter Hart FAIR BLOG June 18, 2014 US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning wrote a remarkable More
They Can’t Represent Us by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini is a fiery indictment of electoral politics and a riveting defense of real democracy. By Jerome Roos ROARMAG.org June 16, 2014 Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini (2014), They Can’t Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with a foreword by David Harvey). London and New York: Verso. A More
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Exclusive: The Sunni extremist offensive into central Iraq appears to have stalled, but the political battle rages in Washington where neocons see an opening to pressure President Obama into recommitting the U.S. military in support of neocon goals in the Middle East, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry ConsortiumNews.com June 15, 2014 As President Barack Obama ponders More
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
On Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky speaks to the media at a friend’s house in Amman, Jordan, in 2010. AP/Nader Daoud CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Noam Chomsky, whom I interviewed last Thursday at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has influenced intellectuals in the United States and abroad in incalculable ways. His explications of empire, mass propaganda, the More
Don’t Walk Away from War It’s Not the American Way By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com June 10, 2014 The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began. That’s more More
Above: No Drone New England MIT protest drone By Greg Mitchell, www.thenation.com PopularResistance.org June 1st, 2014 This week Secretary of State John Kerry, a drone war enthusiast, was rightly mocked for telling Edward Snowden to “man up” and return to the US. But it was easy criticism when the implications of death-by-drone deserve a deeper dive. And More
