Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent and 2011 whistleblower recently returned from Moscow where she traveled with three other Americans to present Edward Snowden the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. She accompanied by, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former NSA executive Thomas Andrews Drake, Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, and Sarah Harrison More
Nelson Mandela’s Inspiration (Revised) By Richard Falk 9 DEC Global Justice in the 21st Century Editor's Note: Of interest because of Mandela's comments shifting the responsibility for violence from the oppressed to the oppressor. Not only in the case of Israel/Palestine. We have seen this double standard in the U.S. with Occupy, a basically nonviolent movement More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/jNpXUC391vc] Published on Dec 11, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - As the world focuses on Tuesday's historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela's memorial. In the words of More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/mMT36t6BADc] Published on Jun 13, 2013 Here is a 1990 video from my collections. I got this tape from ABC in a VHS in 1990, I recently transferred it to a DVD format so I can share with all. It is a 1990 Town Hall meeting with Nelson Mandela of South Africa anchored More
South Africa’s apartheid government had been brutally repressive for nearly five decades, and the country’s black majority was justifiably full of anger. Mandela led his people in channeling that anger—not suppressing it but using it in constructive ways. By Eugene Robinson Posted on Dec 6, 2013 Washington Post via Truthdig.com AP/Theana Calitz-Bilt, Pool “Our nation has lost More
As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over Aviva Shen Published: Sunday 8 December 2013 NationofChange.org . In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into More
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63EjNGGe3A&w=560&h=315] Published on Mar 6, 2013 The amazing evolutionary path of Presumption Of Innocence from year 1215 to 2013... and its even more amazing time warp back to Pre-13th century standards, explained by Mr. Chomsky in 12 minutes. This extract is from an interview shot on January 22, 2013, as part of a documentary project More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63EjNGGe3A&w=560&h=315] Published on Mar 6, 2013 The amazing evolutionary path of Presumption Of Innocence from year 1215 to 2013... and its even more amazing time warp back to Pre-13th century standards, explained by Mr. Chomsky in 12 minutes. This extract is from an interview shot on January 22, 2013, as part of a documentary project More
Anniversaries From “Unhistory” by: Noam Chomsky 6 February 2012 Truthout | Op-Ed Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, 1966. (Photo: Lt. Col. Cecil J. Poss, USAF) George Orwell coined the useful term More
WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Hope Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 5:28pm, July 31, 2011 TomDispatch.com If someone asked you, last July, to lay odds on the possibility that in 365 days, popular protests in the Middle More
