Out of the bunkers, into the streets

8 November 2012The Yes Men

Yesmen

For those of you who contributed last week to The Yes Men are Revolting Kickstarter campaignthank you! You were a beacon of hope in an otherwise weird, rough week. Superstorm Sandy knocked out our power, locked us out of our offices in lower Manhattan, and reduced us to hauling water up 19 floors to Andy’s dark apartment so we could attend to our rapidly failing hygiene. (#revolting #TMI)

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Black Agenda Report November 7, 2012: Victory! — Black America's Lost Moral Compass — Hurricane Sandy & the Failed State

8 November 2012Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

Victory! – for the Non-Resistance

 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The More Effective Evil has trounced those Republicans with evil intentions. Folks who never made a single demand of the corporate, war mongering Democrat think they are some kind of victors. “The non-resisters have won a non-victory against an unimpressive enemy,” while Obama plots new atrocities.

ICH November 7, 2012: Gulf States: British Arms Deals – Quick Death, Fast Profits

7 November 2012 — Information Clearing House


To Humiliate and Degrade

Impressions of Gaza

By Noam Chomsky

Where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32968.htm

 

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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 7 November 2012: Settlers ‘uproot 100 trees, spray racist graffiti’ in Nablus

7 November 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Four Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians during invasions targeting different parts of the occupied West Bank. The army invaded several areas in the districts of Hebron, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ramallah and Tulkarem. …

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The Tremor in the Communist Party of China By Ahmet Devrim

8 November 2012The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 725

The Chinese <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Communist Party (<strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>CCP) is holding a new congress, the 18th, due to start on November 8. The <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>CCP is at the helm of the single-party system of the People’s Republic. The nine-member Politbureau Standing Committee (PSC) acts as the supreme body that rules over this vast country with a population of 1.3 billion souls. The secretary general of the party, ranking number one in the PSC, automatically becomes the president of the country and the number three member the premier.

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