Welcome to the Asylum Also published as “The Implosion of Capitalism” By Chris Hedges 30 April 2012 Truthdig | Op-Ed Picking through scraps in a Kolkata, India waste dump. (Photo: Sterneck) When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, More
May Day Minneapolis in Video and Picture Here are just a few of the many videos and photos from May Day in Minneapolis. Click here to watch the KSTP video Monday night in preparation for May Day. MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) Channel 5 OccupyMN protestors are expecting more people to turn out in support of the movement 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
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, How You Subsidize the Energy Giants to Wreck the Planet Posted by Bill McKibben at 9:20am, April 5, 2012. Just in case you’re running for national office, here are a few basic stats to orient you when you hit Washington (thanks to the invaluable Open Secrets website of the Center for Responsive Politics). In 2011, the More
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park By Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams March 26, 2012 October2011 Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – More
The corporate media crisis: Everything old is new again By Robert Jensen 03 April 2012 MWC News These days there’s one political point on which one can usually get consensus: Mainstream journalists are failing. In common parlance, most everyone ‘hates the media.’ But there is little agreement on why journalism might be inadequate to the task More
Radio Show, BP settlement 03/06/12 The Shannyn Moore Show – Greg Palast talks about the BP settlement 00:31:12 Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Greg Palast’s Book Vulture’s Picnic Texas and Tokyo By mid-May 2010, with his presidency floating face down in the Gulf, Barack Obama had yet another crisis to deal with. Obama still had More
Wikileaks emails indicate Stratfor discovered Israel already destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities By Andrew Jones February 27, 2012 Raw Story Growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear facilities may prove to be all for naught. Officials from the global intelligence company Stratfor allegedly discussed that Israel may have already destroyed the Iranian nuclear facility, according to More
