Killer Drones in the Empire State
No longer will the pilots who steer drones and fire missiles while staring at computer screens be confined to remote areas like the Nevada desert.
NY Demonstrators Say #No2Netanyahu While DC Protesters Rally To #ShutDownAIPAC
“One of the issues we aim to raise awareness about is Israel’s impunity against international law through its unconditional support from the United States,” Hani Ghazi, the New York-area Israeli Apartheid Week(IAW) coordinator, told MintPress News before speaking at the rally. “Netanyahu’s speech perpetuates that complicity.
John Steppling: Hollywood, the Police and the Poor
Urban spaces are racialized. In spite of the gentrification processes displacing the racialized poor and working classes, it has become very difficult to negate the continued disenfranchisement, incarceration, and killing of black and brown bodies. By John Steppling Truthout | Film Review December 21, 2014 (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In fact, gentrification processes likely exacerbated the economic More
Josh Stearns> Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record
Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record by Josh Stearns, May 29, 2012 MediaShift This month, federal agencies and local officials sent two powerful but conflicting messages to the American public about our right to record. On May 14, the Justice Department submitted a letter to the Baltimore Police Department providing in-depth guidance on More
Josh Stearns> Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record
Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record by Josh Stearns, May 29, 2012 MediaShift This month, federal agencies and local officials sent two powerful but conflicting messages to the American public about our right to record. On May 14, the Justice Department submitted a letter to the Baltimore Police Department providing in-depth guidance on More
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America> Shale-Shocked Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America Posted by Ellen Cantarow January 22, 2012 Tom Dispatch They say you can’t keep a good man down, but the “good” part of that equation is often negotiable. If you thought you had seen the last of the then-disgraced Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, you know what I More
Those Who Say Occupy Wall Street Movement Should Go To Washington Don’t Get It
Those Who Say Occupy Wall Street Movement Should Go To Washington Don’t Get It By Rob Kall (about the author) October 10, 2011 at 08:43:02 opednews.com Herman Cain says Occupy Wall Street protests should go to the White House. Willy Geist on Morning Joe says “I’m glad to see it’s moving to Washington,” referring to the More