News :: Globalization
Kucinich Announces New 911 Truth Effort
11 Sep 2008
(Updated)
by
ex
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 10, 2008) -- On the day before the observance of 9/11, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who has led Impeachment efforts in Congress over the past two years, will announce a new effort toward establishing a process of national truth and reconciliation.
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Criticism of Consumerism and Criticism of Capitalism
11 Sep 2008
by
Chris Methmann
With the striking climate change, the "western lifestyle" has come into crisis. Our consumption is more environmentally-friendly but we simultaneously consume more and more so the environment is hardly relieved. Necessary social framing conditions are faded out.
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After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action
11 Sep 2008
by
primate against ICE
please read, forward widely, discuss with others, and ACT!
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LOCAL Interview :: Baltimore MD
Free Mix Radio: Marshall "Eddie" Conway: An Interview with a Political Prisoner
10 Sep 2008
by
The Funkinest Journalist (republished from DC IMC)
Wednesday September 3, 2008, along with attorney Thomas Ruffin, we
paid a visit to the Jessup Correctional Facility where we
interviewed former member of the Black Panther Party and current
political prisoner Marshall "Eddie" Conway. We heard his story,
history of the BPP, the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)
and discussed the continuing struggle for human rights.
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News :: Latin America
Corrupción en el círculo intimo del Obispo
10 Sep 2008
by
Luis Agüero Wagner
En Paraguay muchos jueces son incorruptibles a la manera de la humorada de Bertold Brecht: nadie puede inducirlos a hacer justicia, menos aún si deben hacerla con el entorno de Fernando Lugo.
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Russia Demonization
10 Sep 2008
by
Werner Pirker
This demonization will not succeed. With its resolute response, Russia has gained respect as a central world political actor. Except for US neocons and French "new philosophers," no one apportions blame one-sidedly to Moscow.
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News :: International Relations : Media : Middle East : Peace : Protest Activity
911: Main Man, An Army General, Goes Scot Free
10 Sep 2008
(Updated)
by
Ahmar Mustikhan
Mehmud Ahmed, an army general from Punjab--Pakistan's largest rovince that produces more pro-pan Islamist jihad generals than any other place on earth--, was in the U.S. having breakfast on that morning after bankrolling the money to the hijackers.
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News :: Education : Elections & Legislation : Environment : Gender and Sexuality : Right Wing
CODDLING OF PALIN IS FALSE FEMINISM, DISGUISED SEXISM, AND RIGHT-WING ANTI-WORKING-WOMEN THATCHERISM
09 Sep 2008
by
Ruth Rubinstein
The call of so-called feminists to coddle Palin is really disguised sexism and based on a medieval, male-chauvinist mentality that women are weak and fragile and should be protected. We don’t need an American Margaret Thatcher, an icon and poster child for right-wing policies that harm poor and middle-class working women, the majority of women. It’s time to expose Palin for what she really is.
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