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Internet Freedom and Copyright Reform: Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death By Stephen Lendman
He was an Internet folk hero. He supported online freedom and copyright reform. He advocated free and open web files. He championed a vital cause. He worked tirelessly for what’s right. Continue reading
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Britain: Labour promotes anti-immigrant chauvinism By Jordan Shilton
British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has intensified his party’s promotion of anti-immigrant chauvinism. In two speeches now, Miliband has decried what he terms are uncontrolled levels of immigration, while advocating a strengthening of national identity. Continue reading
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The CIA’s Hollywood Release: “Zero Dark Thirty”, or How People Lose Their Humanity By Annie Day
So how did they feel about liking a film that upholds something they would otherwise find deplorable? Several people said it’s just a movie and shouldn’t be taken so seriously. One woman said she appreciated coming to understand, from the CIA’s perspective, why they used torture. And far too often, the answer was, “It’s complicated.” Continue reading
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OCCUPY WALL STREET By Ethan Earle
In Lower Manhattan, in a small plaza called Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was born in September of 2011. While the first Occupiers had originally come to protest Wall Street, once the actual occupation began their game plan was not entirely clear. What were their goals and how would they pursue them? Continue reading
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Bolivarianism in Venezuela. “With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized” By Stephen Lendman
With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized. It greatly improved the lives of most Venezuelans. It’s become part of the national culture. It won’t wane and die. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Future By Stephen Lendman
Debates should involve opposing sides given full opportunity to air views and challenge others. New York Times editors changed the rules. News and views are filtered. One-sided ones are prioritized. Government and corporate ones matter most. Truth is largely suppressed. Dissent is marginalized. Continue reading
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UN Human Rights Report on Syria: Camouflage of US-NATO Sponsored Massacres By Stephen Lendman
UN Human Rights Council High Commissioner Navi Pillay long ago fell from grace. Like Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, and Lakhdar Brahimi, she’s a reliable imperial partner. Her previous reports on Syria expressed one-sided anti-Assad sentiment. She part of the conspiracy to replace him with a pro-Western puppet. Continue reading
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I want to wish all my readers a…
I want to wish all my readers a peaceful and progressive New Year. ¡A luta continua! William Bowles Continue reading
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How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly By Michael Hudson
Russian poverty is unnecessary. Like all poverty in today’s high-productivity age, it is the result of bad policy. There is no technological need for it, nor is Russia lacking in a full spectrum of natural resources and economic potential. So future historians no doubt will puzzle over how the nation was convinced to de-industrialize its… Continue reading
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Israel: Heading for a Political Cliff? By Stephen Lendman
How can tiny Israel “defy hundreds of millions of Arabs, Iranians and Turks and the vast Muslim world beyond? Only the United States can save Israel from the suicidal folly of its leaders.” Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Anonymous: “Media Instruments” Supportive of US-NATO Sponsored Regime Change? By Ryan O’Neill
Throughout early 2011, the European liberal left were in a frenzy over the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that were sweeping across the region. The Mainstream Media supplied around the clock coverage of the mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square as we were told that the people of the Arab world were standing up to tyranny and demanding… Continue reading
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Blowing Up the Past, Destroying the Future By by Sarah Glynn
Since 1990, Dundee has demolished over 10,000 homes. We also have thousands of people waiting for social housing because they don’t have adequate accommodation. Their house may be unfit to live in, or overcrowded, or they may be having to sleep on a friend’s sofa. Most of the homes that have been destroyed were fundamentally… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 22, 2012 — Is Israeli Apartheid OK? Susan Rice & Humanitarian Intervention
21 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Disconnecting the Dots on Israel-Palestine: Is Apartheid Only A Crime When Committed Against Blacks? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most of the world supported the struggle of African Americans against Jim Crow during the Freedom Movement. Most of the progressive black Continue reading
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Susan Rice: Being Attacked For All Of The Wrong Reasons By Sean Fenley
Susan Rice is, unequivocally, irascible, mean-spirited and a very disagreeable person. This has not previously been an impediment, though, to one becoming a US Secretary of State. We can probably all recall the fiendish relish that Hillary Clinton took in the illicit and barbarian slaughter of Col. Muammar Qaddafi. Seemingly possessed and gleefully uttering, “We… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, Continue reading
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Video: Glen Ford and Michael Eric Dyson debate Obama's Presidency
s President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination to seek four more years in the White House, we host a debate on his presidency with Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report and Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown University and author of numerous books. Ford calls Obama the “more effective evil” for embracing right-wing policies and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 August 2012: Obama's Left Apologists / Blasting the GOP / Massacre at Marikana
012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama’s Left Flank by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s key apologists on the Left have released their 2012 position paper, in which “the facts of the Obama presidency – his actual behavior on war, austerity, and civil liberties Continue reading
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The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste The President By Danny Schechter
Roberto Unger’s argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election. The alleged betrayal is all the more painful, Professor Unger says, because it reveals a man who never was what he claimed to be. Continue reading
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EU Crisis: A pact of two parasites
The European Union took another step along the road to a capitalist united states of Europe at the eurozone summit in the early hours of yesterday morning. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 