In big win for defense industry, Obama rolls back limits on arms exports

...thousands of parts of military aircraft, such as propeller blades, brake pads and tires will be able to be sent to almost any country in the world, with minimal oversight... By Cora Currier  Published: October 14, 2013  Stars and Stripes As of October 15, 2013, thousands of parts of military aircraft, such as propeller blades, More

William Rivers Pitt: America on Fire

Spending on "defense" in America accounts for almost five percent of GDP, and that's just the stuff on the books. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were funded via supplemental spending bills outside the federal budget, and that tab has twelve zeroes on it (Read: more than $1,000,000,000,000 and counting). Then there is the Black More

[Video] What A Hug Can Do

[youtube=http://youtu.be/8XWaTt2GGow] From Organizing Notes, Bruce Gagnon, October 17, 2013 Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and More

Ken Tilsen, a champion of justice for all, dies at 85 | Star Tribune

Local attorney fought for civil and personal rights over a period of decades, was mentor to many. Article by: PAT PHEIFER  Star Tribune  Updated: September 2, 2013 - 10:23 PM Civil rights attorney Ken Tilsen waged a lifelong battle on behalf of the poor and the downtrodden. He defended American Indian Movement followers during the Wounded More

Ken Tilsen, a champion of justice for all, dies at 85 | Star Tribune

Local attorney fought for civil and personal rights over a period of decades, was mentor to many. Article by: PAT PHEIFER  Star Tribune  Updated: September 2, 2013 - 10:23 PM Civil rights attorney Ken Tilsen waged a lifelong battle on behalf of the poor and the downtrodden. He defended American Indian Movement followers during the Wounded More

[Video] Syria 2013: New song by David Rovics

We don't know who did it, but there has been a war crime So we'll bomb an Arab country one more time [youtube=http://youtu.be/c53AitvBdhM] Syria 2013 There's an uncivil war in Syria, one hundred thousand dead Millions of refugees without a roof over their heads Proxy armies flowing in to a country open wide You got More

Guantanamo> Hunger Strike Getting Harder

RESIST! CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PRISONS, GUANTANAMO BAY By Tarak Kauff  July 26th, 2013  www.popularresistance.org  July 26, Friday. 49 days into hunger strike. Days are getting harder. Yesterday was not a good day. I was upset and angry for a good part of the day – mostly at the enormous evil perpetrated since the beginning by this country.  Was reading about More

Guantanamo> Hunger Strike Getting Harder

RESIST! CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PRISONS, GUANTANAMO BAY By Tarak Kauff  July 26th, 2013  www.popularresistance.org  July 26, Friday. 49 days into hunger strike. Days are getting harder. Yesterday was not a good day. I was upset and angry for a good part of the day – mostly at the enormous evil perpetrated since the beginning by this country.  Was reading about More

Juan Cole> Top Ten American Steps Toward a Police State

The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance and by restrictions on the movements of citizens. Police states are on a spectrum, and unfortunately in the past decade the United States has moved toward police-stateness in small but More

Juan Cole> Top Ten American Steps Toward a Police State

The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance and by restrictions on the movements of citizens. Police states are on a spectrum, and unfortunately in the past decade the United States has moved toward police-stateness in small but More

Greg Palast> Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law

Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts by Greg Palast for Truthout  Tuesday, 25. June 2013  They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping More

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