February, 2012
Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’ in Kansas City
Corporatocracy: Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’ Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 19 February, 2012, 23:30 Republican presidential candidate US Representative Ron Paul (Reuters / Brian Snyder) TRENDS: US Election 2012 TAGS: Arms, Election, Military, Crisis, Politics, Budget, History, USA, Katerina Azarova, Government Spending, Economy Republican presidential [...]
Walmart’s Low Prices Bear a High Cost for America
For untold millions, Walmart is not simply a place to shop, but the place. Considering that the quintessential big-box retailer claims to, and often does, offer just about every conventional item necessary for the family at an affordable price, this should be none too surprising. However, at what cost does this convenience come, and in [...]
Occupied Reports From The Front Lines
#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines by Jennifer Sacks on Feb 13, 2012 • 12:42 pm 4 Comments YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Merrill Garbus of the tUnE-yArDs occupying Columbus Circle after playing Lincoln Center’s Allen Room on February 9. Photo: Chris La Putt This week in Occupy, Wisconsin marked a year of [...]
U.S. media takes the lead on Iran
In this April 8, 2008, photo released by the Iranian President’s Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. (Credit: AP Photo/Iranian Presidents office, File) (updated below) Many have compared the coordinated propaganda campaign now being disseminated about The Iranian Threat to that which preceded [...]
Ethical questions revealed surround a lucrative KCPS construction project
Serious ethical questions surround a lucrative Kansas City Public Schools construction project. Investigation of the estimated $32 million project discovers that businessman who acted as a District adviser early in the process eventually founded his own company and won the contract. [Source]
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto Corn Fields
Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) [...]
The Bronx Convulses With Anger Over Police
Ramarley Graham’s family leads a march to the 47th Precinct. Photo: DNAinfo/David Torres On Feb. 6, two days after the 13th anniversary of the murder of Amadou Diallo, an emotional march responded to two new incidents of police violence that have rocked the Bronx. The New York Police Department’s brutal beating of Jatiek Reed and [...]
A Movement and the Hostile Media
Every progressive movement in U.S. history was portrayed negatively by mainstream media at the time it was happening. So it’s no surprise that today’s media portray the Occupy Wall Street movement in the same light. During the Montgomery bus boycott, mainstream media outlets interviewed black folks who were against it and talked about how the [...]
Allied Gov’t Sold-out Global Public Health for sake of profit.
Dear Occupy, The medical establishment will have you believe that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is some sort of mysterious illness, but it’s no mystery to me; CFS/ME leads to HIV-Negative AIDS, idiopathic CD lympocytopena (ICL), a clinical diagnosis that I possess. How can the AIDS establishment continue with a stale “it’s caused by HIV” [...]
Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
by Bill Quigley Bringing corporations down to controllable size is a gargantuan task, but an absolute necessity if there is to be any hope for democracy. “Corporations have worked the courts mercilessly since 1819 to take a wide variety of constitutional rights that were designed to cover only people.” In one 30-year period, “African Americans [...]
Occupied Reports from the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Mitt Romney got mic-checked, Davos was #occupied, the President co-opted Occupy language in his #SOTU address and Occupy Oakland’s attempt to transform an abandoned building into a community center ended with 400 arrests and sparked coast-to-coast solidarity marches. #On Saturday, January 28, Occupy Oakland commenced with “Move-In Day,” an attempt to establish [...]
US Drones Targeting Rescuers and Mourners of Previous Drone Attacks
On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in [...]
Police tase peaceful occupier at McPherson Square
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsuGvyoE21Y Sunday morning, U.S. Park Police restrained a participant in the occupation of McPherson Square who was behaving non-violently, fired taser darts into his back, and continuously tased him while he lay face down and handcuffed. This comes just one day before Park Police say they will begin arrests of individuals currently maintaining the 24-hour [...]
Occupy DC got Raided
At around 5:40 am, the peaceful demonstrators of Occupy D.C., were greeted by helmeted, swarms of U.S. Park Police, dressed in full riot gear–despite the very apparent lack of any riot– some on horseback, others wearing unnecessary hazmat suits. Members of the U.S. Park Police immediately began erecting metal barricades around the perimeter and cordoning [...]
Josh Fox – Director of Gasland – Arrested at Fracking Hearing
Maker of Oscar-nominated documentary ejected when Republicans object to him trying to film meeting [Read Story]