Category Archives: Fascism
AFP: Guatemala: la condamnation de l’ex-dictateur Rios Montt pour génocide annulée
Mais, lundi en fin de journée, Martin Guzman, porte-parole de la Cour constitutionnelle, a annoncé que “le jugement (était) annulé” à la suite d’un recours des avocats de M. Rios Montt pour vice de procédure. La décision annule toutes les étapes après l’interruption provisoire du procès le 19 avril pour vice de procédure, ainsi que […]
Rush Limbaugh Opens 2012 With More Race-Baiting Attacks | Research | Media Matters for America
Consistent with his long history of race-baiting attacks, Rush Limbaugh has used his first programs of 2012 to levy a series of racial attacks on President Obama. In the last week, he has claimed that President Obama’s “plan” is “payback” against the “white Europeans” who “illegitimately founded” the United States, said that the Obamas think […]
Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex? | VICE United States
You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In this age of privatization, of course, it’s also not surprising that many of the detention centers are not actually operated by the […]
First Nations prepared to fight Harper government, Enbridge in international court | The Vancouver Observer
“Traditionally, non-indigenous folks would see chiefs standing out in front, but what the people didn’t know was that those chiefs took their directions from the women.” Now, with the Enbridge hearings taking place in BC and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence entering her third week without food in Ontario, Goodwin said the struggles of First Nations […]
Intense video challenges Catalan and Spanish collaboration with the Israeli occupation | Mondoweiss
This year, the Palestine solidarity movement in Catalonia, formed by the platform “Amb Palestina al Cor”, “BDS Catalunya”, “Plataforma: Aturem la Guerra”, “Rumb a Gaza” and “Dones en Rebel·lia”, denounce the role that Israel plays in the dessign, research, implementation and global sale of different security and repression systems. We have proves that Catalonia and […]
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
AP, Tea Party, Bloomberg Clients All Being Monitored Just Like You
It’s quaint how people still manage to get outraged about surveillance. You are being monitored, right now, just like everybody else with a phone or a computer or a bank account or a pressure cooker, because Total Information Awareness is real. ‘Welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether […]
The Maya Genocide Trial of Rios Montt : The New Yorker
Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a lyrically beautiful region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward […]
Rick Perry, Fox News and Religious Right Activists Jump on Fabricated Case of Christian Persecution | Right Wing Watch
Todd Starnes of Fox News has dedicated himself to finding cases of Christians facing persecution. Starnes recently reported that the military is deliberately blocking access to a Baptist website and may court-martial Christian soldiers, and alleged that a school in New York is forcing girls to kiss one another. However, these three incidents were all […]
The Angry Arab News Service — Israel’s dirty hands in…Nigeria
“The Jonathan administration secretly, and in open violation of lawful contracting procedures, has awarded an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, with headquarters in Haifa, a $40million contract to help it spy on citizens’ computers and Internet communications under the guise of intelligence gathering and national security. Elbit announced the contract award Wednesday in a global press […]
