US Outrage Over Syria Veto at UN Rife With Hypocrisy
Stephen Zunes
Official Washington has been rife with condemnation at the decision by the governments of Russia and China to veto an otherwise unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the ongoing repression in Syria and calling for a halt to violence on all… Continue reading
Profit Driven Prison Industrial Complex – The Economics of Incarceration in the USA
Nile Bowie
For anyone paying attention, there is no shortage of issues that fundamentally
From Washington this looks like Syria‘s ‘Benghazi moment’. But not from here
Robert Fisk
Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions
February 07, 2012 “The Independent‘ – President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for… Continue reading
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America’s Crops
Anna Lekas Miller
Occupy comes out to support a lawsuit that hopes to turn the tables on corporate farming behemoth Monsanto.
Monsanto, if you will, is the 1 percent of Big Agriculture–the scourge of small farmers… Continue reading
The CIA conducted a large scale covert action campaign… Continue reading
Syria: Report of the Arab League Observer Mission
Neil Godfrey
As a follow up to my earlier post Syria: what we are not being told here is an English translation of the report of the Arab League Observer Mission to Syria. Of particular interest are the statements made in it about the way… Continue reading
Stop the War protests against Iran and Syria intervention: 28 January 2012
On 28 January 2012 at the United States Embassy in London, Stop the War held a rally to launch the Don’t Attack Iran campaign. Among the speakers (videos below) were Tony Benn, Kate Hudson, John Rees, Roger Lloyd Pack, Andrew Murray, John
OccupiedAir
OccupiedAir is an independent news channel supporting the Occupy movement across the United States.We provide live coverage of protest events from #OWS actions in New York City to OccupyCongress in D.C. to the Upcoming Nato / G8 Summit taking place in Chicago this Spring. We are dedicated to unbiased, objective reporting… Continue reading
US WikiLeaks Soldier Manning Court-Martialed
The Voice of America (VOA)
The U.S. Army has ordered a court-martial for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged with passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.
A military spokeswoman said Friday the Army approved a recommendation that Private First Class Bradley Manning stand trial. A date for the trial… Continue reading
Say No to War
Stephen Lendman
Wolfgang Borchert: German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life.
Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released him. His Wehrmacht conscription suspended his young theatrical career… Continue reading
Declaration of Social Movements Assembly Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that