revolt
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Movie Review: Django Unchained: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger By Jordy Cummings
Of all the “b-movie” film genres of the 20th century, none was more consistently radical than the spaghetti western. So-named because of its Italian lineage, these films used the setting of the wild west to portray thinly veiled allegories about popular uprisings, class and racial oppression, and armed rebellion against the ruling classes. Continue reading
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EGYPT: THE UPRISING TWO YEARS ON
On January 25, 2011, spirited bands of protesters joined hands in the epochal popular revolt that would unseat Husni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator of 30 years. Where is the country headed, with a new civilian government (for now) at the helm? The winter 2012 issue of Middle East Report offers reflections upon “Egypt: The Uprising Two… Continue reading
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Books: Catastrophism — Left, Right, and Center by Ernesto Aguilar
One of the Left’s great challenges is to understand when the great watershed of change is upon people and seize the time. Racism, sexism, inequality, and uncertain futures have weighed heavily on the conscience of many a movement. For every great moment, hundreds of crushing defeats never to be remembered are handed down. Once in… Continue reading
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Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization By Prof. James Petras
By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant data on the ways in… Continue reading
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Out of the bunkers, into the streets
For those of you who contributed last week to The Yes Men are Revolting Kickstarter campaign—thank 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… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 17 February 2012: Gays threaten the future of the human race says Libyan UN delegate
There are fifteen stories in today’s links, most from the MSM and twelve of the fifteen stories (some are essentially duplicates viz Business Week and TIME) have essentially the same headline: ‘A year after revolt, Libya mired in factional fighting’, or words to that effect. Predictably the BBC and Sky News headlines make no mention… Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 14-15 February 2012
15 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian CunninghamDandelion Salad Today at 07:12 by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 28 December 2011: The Democratic Wasteland / Mass Black Incarceration / Preventive Detention
28 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left This is BAR’s Limited Holiday Radio Edition. Our normal schedule resumes next Wednesday, January 4. Happy New Year! Continue reading
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Arab League calls on Syria: Opposition isn’t listening — RT
A primary team of Arab League peace monitors are expected to arrive in Syria on Thursday as the violent revolt against President Bashar al-Assad rages on. However, despite the move, the Syrian opposition is still clamoring for foreign intervention. Continue reading
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Video: Nikolay Starikov – 'Syria – provocations and murders'
In Syria we can see a new “round” of destabilizing the country, now for good. As usual, the operations of the inner “opposition”, that is murders and terrorists, are in perfect coordination with the “independent” mass-media. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20 October 2011: Latest
20 October 2011 — williambowles.info Libya’s Gaddafi caught hiding like a “rat” Reuters By Tim Gaynor and Taha Zargoun SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule “rats,” but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of Continue reading
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“Operation Mermaid Dawn”: NATO carnage in Tripoli By Thierry Meyssan
The “mermaids” are the mosque loud speakers which were used by Al Qaeda to send the signal to start the revolt. Immediately, rebel “sleeper cells” went into action. Small, highly mobile, groups kept multiplying the attacks. The night combats left 350 dead and 3000 injured. Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Libyan Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Following the assassination of General Abdel Fattah Al-Younes, the commander of the Transitional Council’s armed forces, further divisions within the rebellion have unfolded; the tide has changed dramatically in Benghazi. Continue reading
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NATO airstrikes kill 19 civilians in Tripoli – Libyan TV
NATO airstrikes on Libyan capital, Tripoli, killed at least 19 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Libyan state television reported. Continue reading
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“Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt” – Samir Amin
Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The (Gaddafi) bloc in power and the forces fighting against it have no analogues in Tunisia or Egypt. Gaddafi has never been anything but a clown whose vacuous thought is reflected in the famous ‘Green Book.’ Continue reading
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Spain Newslinks 19-22 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 22 May 2011 BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.” Elections in Spain underway after massive protests His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial Continue reading
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Immanuel Wallerstein: The great Libyan distraction
The entire Libyan conflict of the last month — the civil war in Libya, the US-led military action against Gaddafi — is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. It is in fact one big distraction — a deliberate distraction — from the principal political struggle in the Arab world. Continue reading
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