Saturday, March 5, 2011

Why the possibility of an all out victory in Wisconsin frightens the union leaders.

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by Sean Throne from Indybay .  This is a very good argument for worker activists to keep union leaders from selling out once again.  Sinc...

Roundup: Protests Continue Across Muslim World

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by Jason Ditz from Antiwar .  Provides links to reports of protests all over North Africa and the Middle East.

DOD Passes the Buck Rather than Let Kucinich Visit Bradley Manning

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by emptywheel blog on FDL .  Apparently our US Representatives can't even visit Manning to find out about his abusive treatment.  T...

How to Build a Progressive Tea Party

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by Johann Hari from The Nation .  The article reports on a new way of organizing protests by using Twitter that is happening in the UK ag...

Eat the Rich

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by Tom Robbins from The Village Voice .  If you want a true picture of New York's current economic plight, take a look at a remarkable ...

Pakistan: Can America Get Away With Murder?

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by Shahid R. Siddiqi from Voltaire .  People are asking a lot of questions regarding this incident that is the source of widespread Pakist...

Haiti: Washington’s Cynical Campaign to Keep Aristide in South Africa

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by Glen Ford from Voltaire .  If diplomacy is a form of lying, then the United States’ efforts to delay indefinitely the return to Haiti of...

Republicans and Democrats Agree: Cut Aid to the Poor, Not Israel

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by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis . As Republicans and Democrats propose cuts in programs that actually benefit their increasingly impove...
Friday, March 4, 2011

The Collapse of the Old Oil Order

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by Michael T Klare from Asia Times Online .  After reviewing the history of oil production in the Middle East and its control by Western p...

U.S. Cables Detail Saudi royal Welfare Program

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by Simon Robinson from Reuters .  Well, the details about the "welfare" program that serves mostly the Saudi ruling families may...

I Smell a Rat

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by William Bowles from Strategic Culture Foundation .  The writer examines two key reports that have been widely disseminated in Western m...

Experiments in Democracy: Egypt, Tunisia and the US

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by Joseph Gainza from Toward Freedom .  Yes, I couldn't agree more--we have much to learn about democracy from those brave people in N...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Intifada beyond Palestine

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by Ismael Hossein-zadeh from OpEd News .  The author puts the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East in a much broader perspective ...

The "Budget Crisis" is the Product of a Tax Avoidance Scam By The Very Rich

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by Richard Clark from OpEd News .  ...a rather vicious cycle has been at work for years:   Reduced taxes on the rich leave them with ever m...

US invasion of Libya? [must read article and view videos]

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from RT (Russia Today) .  This piece provides excellent coverage from a variety of independent sources regarding the Libyan situation. Th...

The end of the end of history

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online .  ...one may even dream that the notion of fighting incompetent/corrupt/unjust governments in the n...

Egypt's new guiding lights

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Interview with Ibrahim Mounir from Asia Times Online .  (Mounir is a lawyer and prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood) I have seen li...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Open Letter To The World

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by anonymous from Anon News . The revolution has begun: We are questioning the old assumptions that we are made to consume not to create,...

Bahrain: Evolution or Revolution?

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by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen from Open Democracy . While Libya is receiving extensive, but not always accurate, coverage in US mainstream ...

The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan

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by William Blum from The Anti-Empire Report (Mar 1, 2011).  This is an important excerpt from this report which furnishes a powerful anti...