March 2012
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Living in the Shadow of an Atom Cloud: The Search...
Brussels, 24 February 2012 – The nuclear accident at Fukushima, Japan, has once again shown risks of atomic programmes whether for war or peace. A year after the accident, more than 150,000 have had to flee their homes because of radiation contamination. Fukushima has reawakened international attention and created awareness on the devastating risks last raised by the Chernobyl incident of 1986.
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First casaulty of the Wikileaks disclosure: The...
Dear loyal Stratfor partners and clients,
It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.
Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of...
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Five Banks Account For 96% Of The $250 Trillion In... →
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News to Me: Hackers Attack Ontario Police Site →
n-morgan:
OTTAWA, Feb. 26 (UPI) — The hacker group Anonymous says it hacked into the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Web site and obtained personal information on the group’s members.
Hackers opposed to Canada’s proposed Internet surveillance bill say they accessed logins and passwords Friday…
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Washington Post: What ‘left’ and ‘right’ really...
Posted by Ezra Klein at 10:57 AM ET, 02/24/2012
Perhaps my biggest frustration with the U.S. news media (and yes, I am a card-carrying member) is that we permit the two parties to decide what is “left” and what is “right.” The way it works, roughly, is that anything Democrats support becomes “left,” and everything Republicans support becomes “right.” But that makes “left” and...
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Fight Back! News: Antiwar Coalition conference...
By Staff
Stamford, CT - Over 500 people gathered here, March 23-25, for a conference of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). The conference brought together activists from up and down the East Coast and from across the country.
Pete Shell, one of the conference organizers said, “We advanced the organizing for the mass mobilization on NATO and the G8 in Chicago on May 20.” The opening...
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Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.
—The Editors
By Albert Einstein
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for...
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The Individual Mandate Isn't the Problem: Wall...
Editor’s note: I don’t agree with all of this article but it does bring up a good point. RootsAction by the way opposes this mandate (http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5757&Email=demosoc@activist.com)
By Rosemary Gibson
If the individual mandate cost $25 a month, would the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be debated in the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Debate on the Volcker Rule (from the Congressional...
In January 2010, President Barack Obama gave his full support to common-sense restrictions on proprietary trading and fund investing, which he coined the ‘‘Volcker Rule.’’ The ‘‘Volcker Rule,’’ which Senator LEVIN and I drafted and have championed in the Senate, and which is embodied in section 619, embraces the spirit of the Glass-Steagall Act’s separation of ‘‘commercial’’ from ‘‘investment’’...
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Occupy the SEC is a group of concerned citizens,... →
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Peace Isn't Treason by Melvina Reynolds
Chorus: Peace isn’t treason, Peace is good reason, Peace is Heaven’s will; “Peace on earth!” is what He said, And I believe it still.
Is our country then so weak That it can only thrive By bombing peasant villages And burning babes alive, Burning babes alive?
(Chorus)
Rich we are in everything, Rich and strong and proud, For our kings, the GNP, For our sons,...
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Remarks of Illinois State Senator Barack Obama...
Note: These remarks are very telling considering Obama is a very prowar president who is continuing the permanent war economy. Some parts are bolded I thought were important.
October 2, 2002 Chicago, Illinois
Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all...
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Occupy Atlanta Claims Partial Victory in AT&T...
Editor’s note: This article details some victories of the Occupy Movement in Atlanta, Georgia.
By Gloria Tatum, Senior Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (March 26, 2012)
(APN) ATLANTA — Today, Monday, March 26, 2012, Occupy Atlanta, Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 3204, and Atlanta Jobs with Justice announced a historic victory in preventing over 250 layoffs...
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“In 1949 the United States held three-Quarters of the world’s gold; by 1960 it...”
– From Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire by Michael Hudson back cover (http://michael-hudson.com./books/super-imperialism-the-economic-strategy-of-american-empire/)
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New world order? (Commentary by Arnaud de...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) — Is China now emerging as banker to the rest of the world?
The United States owes China $1.3 trillion — out of a total U.S. public debt load of $14.1 trillion. And the United States also owes almost $1 trillion to Japan.
So clearly, 17 EU nations that share the euro currency couldn’t turn to the United States to help bail them out of their...
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Obama Picks Sides on Keystone XL: TransCanada...
Editor Sez: Why does this news totally fail to surprise us? Obama’s problem is that he’s running out of vital issues he can put his treacherous stamp on. Meanwhile countless Obots fiercely defend their “right” to support their man in November.
By Mijin Cha, Demos.org
A lesson in how not to reduce gas prices: the White House is backing TransCanada’s bid to build the southern portion of the...
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Fulfill: US has to live up to promise to...
One of the measures of a nation is how well it keeps its promises. Does it follow its own laws? Does it live up to the treaties and agreements it makes? If it espouses fairness and equality, does it strive to ensure it meets those standards?
In these areas, the United States usually performs well, and much better than many other countries. However, when it comes to delivering on its promises to...
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“The military’s first feature-length film wants to make Americans forget...”
– That film is called the “Act of Valor.” It seems very jingoistic.
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As U.S. officials seek to head off an Israeli... →
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“The 45-page report, “In Heavy Waters: Iran’s Nuclear Program, the...”
– Despite War Drums, Experts Insist Iran Nuclear Deal Possible
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Iran continues to enrich uranium at low levels,... →
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The Public Record: APA Up To Old Tricks With New...
Last month, members of the American Psychological Association announced a “new APA members-initiated Task Force to reconcile policies related to psychologists’ involvement in national security settings.” The movement for a new task force to ostensibly replace the 2005 task force on “Psychological Ethics and National Security” (PENS), which in the midst of the controversies surrounding use of...
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Indiana court reversed order to identify anonymous...
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision ordering The Indianapolis Star to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter who was sued for defamation for comments made on the newspaper’s website.
In the ruling, the court said it weighed the First Amendment rights of the anonymous commenter versus the possible harm caused by the allegedly derogatory statements the...
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The latest offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street... →
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Fight Back! News: Midwest Occupy conference builds...
St. Louis, MO - From March 15 -18, over 100 organizers from the Midwest Occupy movement met here to discuss future plans and actions.
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13 people were arrested on the first day trying to occupy Compton Hill Reservoir Park. Police armed with batons attacked the Occupiers, causing several injuries. Protesters were initially threatened with felony charges, which were later dropped. Then on March...
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“Questions are mounting over the state of California’s prison system following...”
– Democracy Now! explains a California prison riot.
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“Truck drivers in the Puget Sound shut down ports for two weeks—and begin to...”
– The spirit of the 1850s has been revived! Back then there were general strikes across the country, especially in the year 1857. Also that year, 15,000 people marched in front of Wall Street shouting “We want jobs!”
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Two years after the infamous ruling, support... →
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“Take part in a nonviolent civil disobedience/civil resistance action, play a...”
– A word of advise from Nuclear Resister.
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Women at Entergy Headquarters: If you love me,...
From Nuclear Resister:
Lending heart to the campaign to end nuclear power forever, the nine women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group brought a Shut It Down Valentine on Monday to the headquarters of Entergy Corporation, which operates the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.
Each wearing a Shut It Down Valentine for Entergy, the death-masked women processed for about twenty minutes in...
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“One hundred and fifty people gathered at an Ash Wednesday event organised by Pax...”
– The Nuclear Resister. Those subs must be eliminated!
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Haze of Capitalism: Since the validity of positive... →
hazeofcapitalism:
Since the validity of positive law has been called into question, capital punishment has provoked more criticism than all others. However superficial the arguments may in most cases have been, their motives were and are rooted in principle. The opponents of these critics felt, perhaps without…
Interesting perspective on several topics.
Socialism - The economic philosophy that everyone...
baseballlibertarian:
But hey, at least we are all equal.
I don’t think that’s socialism. Equality is part of socialism and so is worker-owned production. But, that’s just traditional socialism. There is fake socialism as well (what was practiced in the Soviet Union that is called “socialist” but is really tyrannical).
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“People are organizing to protest in front of Apple stores timed to coincide with...”
– Campaign for America’s Future (http://caf.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=icSfBkJegIhHI%2FfR5pnnm1RKi5OcW5x3)
The IRS Is Coming! Are Medical Marijuana... →
weedporndaily:
The Internal Revenue Service is threatening to turn back the clock on medical marijuana. But now a national alliance of industry leaders, patients and elected officials is fighting back with a new project aimed at education and policy change.
The 280E Reform effort says it plans to bring an end to the current IRS campaign to close medical cannabis dispensaries.
The IRS campaign...
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In These Times: Rule of Law or Rule of President?:...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ittlist/entry/12890/rule_of_law_or_rule_of_president_reclaiming_congressional_war_powers_is_hea/
On March 7, anti-war Congressman Walter Jones (R- N.C.) introduced a bill declaring that executive use of offensive military force not explicitly authorized by Congress constitutes an impeachable offense under the Constitution of the United States.
The bill, H. Con. Res....
“I’ll tell you what: I don’t criticize Lysander (Spooner). His point is very well...”
– Ron Paul (via a-petro-manifesto)
Can I read into this that he’s furtively admitting that he’s actually a market anarchist? (via statehate)
Yes, it is pretty evident Paul is a market anarchist.
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Millions of young people may have a much harder... →
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AlterNet:Strip-Searching Kids? 6 Shocking Ways Our...
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Too many of America’s public schools have become pipelines to incarceration. Instances of nonviolent youth treated like criminals — strip-searched or shackled for the most minor infractions — shed...
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“American parents now face social circumstances that undermine the foundations of...”
– By Ron Taffel / Psychotherapy Networker. This seems as part of an interesting phenomenon in the American experience…
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ANSWER: Emergency actions across the U.S. demand:...
Demonstrators are taking to the streets in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco this week to demand: “End the Afghanistan war now!”
Outrage has been growing across the country in response to the senseless massacre of 16 Afghan civilians this past Sunday. The massacre is only the latest atrocity in the decade-long criminal occupation of Afghanistan. The only way to end war crimes is...
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Instances of non-violent youth treated like... →
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Concerned about... →
