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
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas February 14, 2012 Tom Dispatch Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what More
Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? By Rob Kall Posted: 02/ 8/2012 Huffington Post It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood. Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only More
From the Land Down Under Posted on January 19, 2012 by comehomeamerica George Ikner writes about GTMO from Australia You may wonder just how obvious it has become that Guantanamo is set to be the place where those against the idea of endless war to support the monopoly capitalist democracy in the US can be sent. As the capitalist elites set More
The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, JAN 8, 2012 5:18 AM CST salon.com (updated below – Update II – Update III [Mon.]) This Wednesday will mark the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo prison camp. In The New York Times, one of the camp’s former prisoners, Lakhdar More
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet The Four Occupations of Planet Earth How the Occupied Became the Occupiers Tom Engelhardt December 18, 2011 TomDispatch On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!” Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended to More
A few “pre-revolutionary” thoughts I had By Arundhati Roy (about the author) November 19, 2011 OpEdNews Text of a speech given by Arundhati Roy at the People’s University in Washington Square, NYC on November 16th, 2011. screen grab from video below Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know More
Afghans protest against long-term US pact More than 1,000 students demonstrate against decision to back agreement that would allow US troops to remain after 2014. Last Modified: 20 Nov 2011 17:41 Al Jazeera English The protesters blocked the road to the capital Kabul as they shouted 'Death to America! Death to Karzai!' [AFP] Hundreds of Afghan More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVyNk5S4SHg&w=560&h=315] November 21, 2011 Democracy Now While the United States, Britain and Canada are planning to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran's oil and petrochemical industry today, longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh questions the growing consensus on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. International pressure has been mounting on Iran since the More
Image: Julia La Roche for Business Insider Nov 03 11:00 PM Julia La Roche Business Insider The Occupy Wall Streeters turned their ire toward the "evil vampire squid" Goldman Sachs today. The Occupy Wall Streeters, joined by Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West and columnist Chris Hedges, convened at their Zuccotti Park headquarters for More
Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda By Meredith Aby WAMM Newsletter November 2011 Chicago will host the NATO/G8 summit from May 15-22, 2012. Simultaneously, the U.S.-financed 28-nation military alliance, NATO, is meeting with a summit of the G8 world powers, the main economic council of wealthy nations. The G8 includes the United Kingdom, France, More
