Category Archives: Politics
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 […]
MADDOW: Fair Game to DISCLOSE NAMES of Republicans WHO LIED to ABC News – Democratic Underground
After taking her viewers through the whole, long, ugly mess with ABC’s big “scoop” on the Benghazi emails and the how the story pretty much fizzled out by the end of the week with the discovery that Republicans were responsible for doctoring the supposed quotes from the emails that they published, Rachel Maddow had given […]
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 […]
Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent | Alternet
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior […]
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 […]
Assata Shakur was convicted of murder. Is she a terrorist? – The Washington Post
Today, there are more than 100 academic definitions of terrorism, said Steve Chermak, a professor at Michigan State University who helps to operate a database of extremist crime. His database goes back only to the 1990s, but if it went back further it would include Shakur based on its definition of terrorism, which asks only […]
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 […]
Revolutionary in Exile Added to FBI Terrorist ListMuhammad Speaks | Muhammad Speaks
Assata Shakur, a former Black activist who has been in Cuba for 40 years has become the 1st woman on the FBI’s Terrorist List. This marks her to be kidnapped or killed, said former Black Panther Activist, Angela Davis. “A $2 million bounty has been put on her head, so that anyone can go to […]
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 […]
