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Video: Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) By Alex Mallis and Lily Henderson
Alexander Ramírez-Mallis and Lily Henderson are filmmakers based in Brooklyn, New York Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Nobel peace prize: Bradley Manning tops reader poll The Guardian (blog) Bradley Manning, the US intelligence analyst accused of leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, has been found competent to stand trial. Photograph: AP Following a poll in which we asked readers to vote from a selection of main contenders, the US… Continue reading
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Diplomatic Blowback By Craig Murray
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or ‘Explanation of Vote’ for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 5-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info Wall St Occupation: ‘All wronged by corporate forces are our allies’ Green Left Weekly issue #782 Today at 12:28 peter_b The declaration published below was unanimously passed by all members of Occupy Wall Street on September 29. It is the first official document for release. Receive an official press copy… Continue reading
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1st Amendment Victory in Goodman v. St. Paul, MN Police
Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) celebrated a landmark settlement in Goodman v. St. Paul, a federal lawsuit brought by Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar against the Minneapolis-St. Paul police departments and the U.S. Secret Service, arising from law enforcement’s unlawful arrest and use of excessive of force… Continue reading
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‘Anonymous threat’ plot to undermine Wall Street protest a false flag operation?
‘Operation Invade Wall Street is bullshit! It is a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies in order to get you to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement,’ the new statement said. Continue reading
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Video: Anonymous: Monday the NYSE goes DOWN
We witness the Government enforcing the laws that punish the 99% while allowing the 1% to escape justice, unharmed, for their crimes against the people Continue reading
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‘Mowing the grass’ in Yemen By Eric Walberg
Radical Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, the victim of assassination by US forces 30 September, was born in New Mexico in 1971, educated at Colorado State University in engineering, and radicalised while preaching in US mosques and visiting Afghanistan in the 1990s. His sermons attracted a large following, first in Denver and then San Diego, where… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #98 By William Blum: The crime of making Americans aware of their own history
Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 2-4 October 2011
4 October 2011 — williambowles.info 4 October 2011 Obama Machine Prepares To Hijack ‘Occupy Wall Street’ GlobalResearch.ca Today at 22:51 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Anti-Wall Street protesters 'get organised'
EuroNews: The anti-Wall Street protest in New York has now produced copycat movements across the US. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 30 September – 1 October 2011
1 October 2011 — — williambowles.info Mike Krieger on #OccupyWallStreet: “Rebellion Has Arrived In America” ampedstatus.org TodayEditor’s note: Mike has supported the occupation of Liberty Park since June. He was disappointed it was taking so long for his fellow NYCers to stand up. Now that we have, here’s Mike’s take on it: ‘I will be… Continue reading
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Video: Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street
I’m beginning to wonder whether the right to assemble is effectively dead in the US. No one who is a wage slave (which is the overwhelming majority of the population) can afford to have an arrest record, even a misdemeanor, in this age of short job tenures and rising use of background checks. Continue reading
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Action Alert: What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street? Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests
In an action called Occupy Wall Street, thousands of activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on September 17. The protests are continuing, with demonstrators camped out on the Financial District’s Liberty Street in support of U.S. democratization and against corporate domination of politics (Adbusters, 9/19/11). But you wouldn’t know much about any of… Continue reading
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The Wall Street Occupation: A Sleep-In Protest in the Shadow of Power By Manny Jalonschi
Surrounded by the headquarters of some of the world’s most powerful financial players, over two thousand protesters converged on Wall Street this Saturday. By the end of the second day, those occupying Liberty Park, formerly known as Zuccotti Park on Broadway and Liberty St., had settled in, partially helped by pizza, hot chocolate and blankets… Continue reading
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New York Times Reports On Libya Ethnic Cleansing of Black People Months Later
More than two months after The Wall Street Journal wrote about what amounted to ethnic cleansing of Black people in Misurata, The New York Times in today’s edition finally writes another piece about the racist attacks against Black people by the NATO-backed “rebels” from Benghazi, now installed in power. The article appears under the sanitized… Continue reading
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Gowans: Libya: Imperialism and the Left By Stephen Gowans
The relevant consideration in explaining why interventions occur is not the political orientation of the government under siege, nor its relations with its citizens, but whether it accommodates the profit-making interests of the dominant class in the intervening countries. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 9-11 September 2011
11 September 2011 — williambowles.info 11 September 2011 Germany Participated in Libya War without Parliamentary Approval GlobalResearch.ca Today at 18:03 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading