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Race, Class and Crisis: What New Possibilities for the U.S. Left? – with Adolph Reed
The economic crisis that started in U.S. housing markets in 2007 quickly swept across the world market. A long period of stagnation and austerity now seems to be the order of the day. While all working class people have felt the impact of the crisis on their lives and work, the crisis has also been… Continue reading
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‘Redneck’: Tea Party just a Spectacle By Joe Bageant
More than 43 million people are living below the poverty line, but who are these people? For some reason, in this country, there’s always been an assumption that the poor, or the underclass, are the non-white people that live in this country, and the fact that there has always been a white underclass has become… Continue reading
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New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones
16 September, 2010 — The Real News Network Jordan Flaherty: Thousands of people are not able to return to New Orleans. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4456756 New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones, posted with vodpod Bio Jordan Flaherty is a New Orleans-based journalist and works with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story… Continue reading
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Doug Henwood: Austerity in the face of weakness Pt.3 – Wages and the Crisis
28 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Henwood: Aside from a period of four or five years in the late 1990s, real wages have been either flat or down for most of the last 3, 3.5 decades. That’s not good http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4326056 WAGES AND THE CRISIS, posted with vodpod Bio Doug Henwood is the founder… Continue reading
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SENIOR LAWYER SAYS “BEWARE OF COMING POLICE STATE”
Clayton Ruby defends Charlie Veitch, second person charged under Public Works Protection Act Continue reading
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Ben Werschkul and Tom Zeller, Jr., “The Fight for a Mountaintop”
“Someday coal’s gonna run out. And we’re going to have to have jobs, we’re going to have to have energy, when that happens. So, why not start now?” — Lorelei Scarbro, Coal River Mountain Wind Project Continue reading
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Japan urges ban on nukes 65 years after Nagasaki bombing
[“src”:”http://rt.com/s/swf/player.swf?file=http://rt.com/v/2010-08-15/589744_atomic-legacy.flv&image=http://rt.com/s/obj/2010-08-09/peace-memorial-park_afp.jpg&controlbar=over&skin=http://rt.com/s/swf/skin/stylish1.swf&streamer=lighttpd”,”allowfullscreen”:”true”] The Japanese city of Nagasaki has remembered those killed by the second atom bomb dropped by the US in 1945. A minute of silence was observed on Monday to commemorate the moment when the bomb wiped out most of the city. Tens of thousands of people were incinerated instantly as the bomb nicknamed ‘Fat… Continue reading
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Is My Neighbor Latino?
15 August, 2010 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4236693 Continue reading
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Taras DYACHENKO Hiroshima and Modernity
If the nuclear bombings – which, moreover, mostly targeted the civilian population – did not play the key role in winning the war, what could be the objective behind them? A. Vert, a British journalist who lived in the USSR in the 1940s answered the question clearly over three decades ago: Washington meant to intimidate… Continue reading
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October Surprise Cover-up Unravels By Robert Parry
Not to belabor a point, but some die-hard defenders of the October Surprise cover-up continue to insist that there is real evidence debunking the now overwhelming case that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign interfered with President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks’ Revelations and their Substance By Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India)
The posting of about 92000 reports, allegedly classified, covering a period of January 2004 to December 2009 spanning parts of the two US administrations and their activities related to Afghanistan and Pakistan by the WikiLeaks website have almost created a huge stir in both policy and media circles. While the sections of the US establishment… Continue reading
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On Wikileaks (III): “We’d like his cooperation…” By Arthur Silber
1 August, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Within the next few days, I will publish a detailed analysis of the criticisms of Wikileaks and the latest release of Afghanistan documents offered, not by conservative/rightwing bastards like Varadarajan (discussed in the last section of this article), but by what we might call the “radical left.”… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II) By Arthur Silber
29 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Life and Death in the Obedience Culture I have sometimes described America today as an “obedience culture.” The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (I) By Arthur Silber
27 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… The other day, I offered some observations about the Wikileaks story and the latest release of a huge number of documents. My comments were focused very narrowly: I wanted to highlight the great heroism of those who run Wikileaks and are otherwise involved in these continuing leaks… Continue reading
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State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War By Norman Solomon
Washington’s spin machine is in overdrive to counter the massive leak of documents on Afghanistan. Much of the counterattack revolves around the theme that the documents aren’t particularly relevant to this year’s new-and-improved war effort. Continue reading
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TRUTH RISES AGAIN: WIKILEAKS SHREDS SECRECY OF THE AFGHAN WAR
This unprecedented challenge to the Pentagon and the war us much bigger, more inportant and deeper than the Pentagon Papers which was a secret history of the Vietnam war. Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg was one of their influences and supporters. (I see this release also a tribute to the life and work of journalist… Continue reading
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Gerald Celente: Wall Street Boys run the show, only Ron Paul has firm grasp
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law the biggest financial overhaul since the Great Depression. The main goal is to prevent another economic crisis. Meanwhile, Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute, argued that the banks and Wall Street approve of this bill because it is a white wash. “It does nothing… Continue reading
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Iraqi-American artist turns body into anti-war work of art
Waffa Bilal, an Iraqi-American artist whose brother died in Iraq, has repeatedly tattooed himself to draw attention to the casualties of war. On his body are marks for each dead Western soldier, and 100,000 dots representing Iraqi casualties. Continue reading
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Buying Venezuela’s Press With U.S. Tax Dollars By Jeremy Bigwood
Until now, the State Department has hidden its role in funding the Venezuelan news media, one of the opposition’s most powerful weapons against President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian movement. The PADF, serving as an intermediary, effectively removed the government’s fingerprints from the money. Yet, as noted in a State Department document titled “Bureau/Program Specific… Continue reading
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The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf By Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld
The scope and scale of this disaster are impossible to communicate. While flying in giant, arcing circles around the source, I saw nothing but oil in every direction. Jonathan Henderson works for the Gulf Restoration Network. While looking out at the literal sea of oil beneath us, he reminded us that, at the moment, 75,000… Continue reading
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