by Jorge Rivas Oakland Police shot and seriously injured Tony Jones, 24, late Sunday. Jones’ mother says he is a cousin of Oscar Grant, whose murder by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year’s Day, 2009, sparked a movement… Read More ›
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Rick Santorum Supporter Says Women Should Keep Their Legs Closed for Birth Control
The comment made by Foster Friess is not simply the case of one man making a chauvinist comment. Rather, it reveals anti-choice campaigners for their inherent patriarchy and misogyny, implying that women should have no right over their own reproduction… Read More ›
Niger won’t extradite Saadi Gadhafi
NIAMEY, Libya, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Officials in Niger said Saturday they will not return Saadi Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, to Libya because he might be killed there. Marou Amadou, a government spokesman, said Niger would… Read More ›
From Pelican Bay: CDCR to offset prison population cut by putting more men in solitary
Three letters from core hunger strike organizers: Todd Ashker, Mutope Duguma (James Crawford), Arturo Castellanos by Todd Ashker Written Jan. 22, postmarked Jan. 27, 2012 – As soon as I first heard during our face to face meeting with former… Read More ›
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by… Read More ›
Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
By Shaun Waterman Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier… Read More ›
US-Funded Textbooks Teach Afghan Children Whitewashed History
The curriculum in Afghan schools intentionally excludes four decades of war in an effort to “bring people together” by John Glaser Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war in an almost… Read More ›
Cuba Embargo Turns 50
by PETER ORSI HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing “The Twist.” The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. The world is… Read More ›
Feeling death at our heels: An update from the frontlines of the struggle
from the NCTT Corcoran SHU “Death is impossible for us to fathom; it is so immense, so frightening that we will do almost anything to keep from thinking about it. Society is organized to make death invisible, to keep it… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: An Opinon About the Opinion-Makers
Jill Pletcher and Mary Magnuson (two of my favorite FB people) were speculating as to what might be my opinion of Chris Hedges. I think Hedges makes a valuable contribution. He goes over issues and topics that some of us… Read More ›
Koch Brothers Front Group Hosts Sham Occupy Debate
A seemingly normal Occupy event in Bellevue, Nebraska, has taken a bizarre turn. It’s recently come to light that the supposed host organization, Occupy Omaha, had nothing to do with it. The event, slated for Feb. 4 at Bellevue University’s… Read More ›
Occupy Omaha Disowns Americans for Prosperity Debate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Occupy Omaha Disowns Americans for Prosperity Debate Omaha, Nebraska – February 2, 2012 – On Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, Bellevue University is hosting an event advertised as a debate between Occupy Omaha and Americans for Prosperity. Occupy… Read More ›
Romney: ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor’
All political candidates — just like all non-politicians — make verbal gaffes. On Monday, for example, Republicans jumped on President Obama for saying the word “interesting” when a woman asked him a question about her unemployed husband. (In that exchange,… Read More ›
The Rise of Rand Paul and the Mainstreaming of the Racist Right
Just what is this Rand Paul phenomenon anyways? Shortly after taking on the Republican political establishment– and winning– in the Kentucky Senate primary, Paul has Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats all wondering if he’s the real deal or not. For starters,… Read More ›
Christie Finds Himself on Short End With Civil-Rights Remark
By Terrence Dopp Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Representative John Lewis, a veteran of the U.S. civil-rights movement, joined New Jersey Democrats criticizing Governor Chris Christie after he said blacks in the 1960s would have preferred referendums on desegregation — a… Read More ›
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