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(Video) Cornel West: Obama's Response to Trayvon Martin Case Belies Failure to Challenge "New Jim Crow"

[youtube=http://youtu.be/zCO4BxUMpD0]  democracynow Published on Jul 22, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - For a response to President Obama's comments on the acquittal of George Zimmerman and racism in the United States, we're joined by Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous books. On Obama's remarks comparing himself to Trayvon Martin, West says: "Will that identification More

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(Video) Cornel West: Obama’s Response to Trayvon Martin Case Belies Failure to Challenge “New Jim Crow”

[youtube=http://youtu.be/zCO4BxUMpD0]  democracynow Published on Jul 22, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - For a response to President Obama's comments on the acquittal of George Zimmerman and racism in the United States, we're joined by Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of numerous books. On Obama's remarks comparing himself to Trayvon Martin, West says: "Will that identification More

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(Video) Live from the Bradley Manning Trial with Alexa O'Brien

[youtube=http://youtu.be/drbOp7fGXn4]  ForbiddenKnowledgeTV· Published on Jul 13, 2013 Alexa O'Brien is a crowd-funded independent journalist who has taken it upon herself to be the unofficial court stenographer of the Bradley Manning trial. Her website has become a valuable resource for those seeking to know more about the proceedings of this trial. Although the Fort Meade hearings are More

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(Video) Live from the Bradley Manning Trial with Alexa O’Brien

[youtube=http://youtu.be/drbOp7fGXn4]  ForbiddenKnowledgeTV· Published on Jul 13, 2013 Alexa O'Brien is a crowd-funded independent journalist who has taken it upon herself to be the unofficial court stenographer of the Bradley Manning trial. Her website has become a valuable resource for those seeking to know more about the proceedings of this trial. Although the Fort Meade hearings are More

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Glenn Greenwald> This Week in Press Freedoms and Privacy Rights

The travesty calling itself "the Bradley Manning court-martial", the kangaroo tribunal calling itself "the FISA court", and the emptiness of what the Obama DOJ calls "your constitutional rights". By Glenn Greenwald.  Published on Saturday, July 20, 2013 by the Guardian/UK. A military judge this week refused to dismiss the most serious charge against Bradley Manning. (Patrick Semansky/AP) I'm More

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Glenn Greenwald> This Week in Press Freedoms and Privacy Rights

The travesty calling itself "the Bradley Manning court-martial", the kangaroo tribunal calling itself "the FISA court", and the emptiness of what the Obama DOJ calls "your constitutional rights". By Glenn Greenwald.  Published on Saturday, July 20, 2013 by the Guardian/UK. A military judge this week refused to dismiss the most serious charge against Bradley Manning. (Patrick Semansky/AP) I'm More

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(Video) Is truth the enemy?

http://youtu.be/57WMNCK977E Editor's Note:  I am not sure that I agree with the premise presented by the videomaker that the "Snowden thing" was planned deliberately as a distraction from Bradley Manning.  However, it is true that Snowden's revealing of NSA spying as a fact and the extent of the spying has proved somewhat of a distraction More

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David Swanson> Bradley Manning Wins Peace Prize

A petition supporting Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize has gathered 88,000 signatures, many of them with comments, and is aiming for 100,000 before delivering it to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.  Anyone can sign and add their comments at ManningNobel.orgDavid Swanson  July 19, 2013  TheRealNews.comBy David Swanson. This article was first published on War is More

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David Swanson> Bradley Manning Wins Peace Prize

A petition supporting Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize has gathered 88,000 signatures, many of them with comments, and is aiming for 100,000 before delivering it to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.  Anyone can sign and add their comments at ManningNobel.orgDavid Swanson  July 19, 2013  TheRealNews.comBy David Swanson. This article was first published on War is More

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Rebecca Solnit> Prometheus Among the Cannibals

I fear you may pay, if not with your death, with your life—with a life that can have no conventional outcome anytime soon, if ever. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped,” you told us, and they are trying to stop you instead. By Rebecca Solnit  Posted on Jul 18, 2013  TomDispatch.com via Truthdig.net castigated_fish (CC BY-SA More

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Rebecca Solnit> Prometheus Among the Cannibals

I fear you may pay, if not with your death, with your life—with a life that can have no conventional outcome anytime soon, if ever. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped,” you told us, and they are trying to stop you instead. By Rebecca Solnit  Posted on Jul 18, 2013  TomDispatch.com via Truthdig.net castigated_fish (CC BY-SA More

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Popular Resistance Newsletter> MIA: Rule of Law

Democracy movements are growing globally and taking hold within the US. More communities are embracing organization from the ground up that is based on community and human rights. By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese July 12th, 2013  www.popularresistance This week, several rulings on high profile, and not so high profile but also important, cases are expected.  We More

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