Robert Fisk | We are not living in a ‘post-truth’ world, we are living the lies of others
But justice is not on the menu. This is a word which few politicians, statesmen, even journalists, any longer use.
Mapping Reveals Rising Use of Social Media Monitoring Tools by Cities Nationwide
The technology can be used to monitor political and social justice movements, posing risks to First Amendment-protected activity.
Henry A. Giroux: Hope in a time of permanent war
Giroux: Democratic hope is a subversive, defiant practice that makes power visible and interrogates and resists those events, social relations, and ideas that pose a threat to democracy.
Wired: 2014 Kinda Sucked: A Look at Our Slow Descent Into Dystopia
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most dystopian image of them all...read to the end for the MOA #blacklivesmatterminneapolis protest to see the image and story.
Why conservatives prefer propaganda to reality: Amanda Marcotte, Alternet
A new Pew study on America's media consumption offers a window into the right's collective mindset AMANDA MARCOTTE, ALTERNET Salon.com October 24, 2014 This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Pew Research set out to find what’s behind what it considers the increasing political polarization of the United States; why the country is moving away from political moderation and More
Tom Tomorrow, The Modern World: Do your part
By Tom Tomorrow for Comics DailyKos.com October 6, 2014 Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace).
Henry A. Giroux; ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism—Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
Surely, fighting "the inhuman" does not justify the indiscriminate killing of Syrian civilians by drones and high-tech fighter jets, among other dastardly crimes? The human and inhuman too often bleed into each other, destroying this wretched, unreflective rhetoric. This is a dangerous binary because it closes down questions of history, politics, power, justice and the More
How To Use Your Smartphone in a Protest
Practical tips, rights, and appsBy Erin Kennedy www.thedialoguechronicle.com from PopularResistance.org August 27, 2014Consider this scenario:Hundreds of people gathering at town square in the morning have become thousands by the afternoon. The chanting from the protesters is only drowned out by the growl of police tanks rolling up a residential street. No Justice! No Peace! No More
Common Dreams: The Double Identity of an “Anti-Semitic” Commenter
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel Pouring Poison into the Internet: A special investigative report By Lance Tapley Common Dreams August 20, 2014 Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors More
Common Dreams: The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter
Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel Pouring Poison into the Internet: A special investigative report By Lance Tapley Common Dreams August 20, 2014 Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors More
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, #YesAllWomen Changes the Story
It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net More
Zeese and Flowers: People-Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers AlterNet February 7, 2014 CenterforMediaJustice.org Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/1000 Words In the last week, there were two major examples of how people-powered media can educate and More