revolution
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Egypt Newslinks 22-23 November 2011
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info 23 November 2011 Egyptians defiant as death toll soarsMorning Star Today at 16:40Egyptian riot police attacked citizens with tear gas and rubber bullets for a fifth day in central Cairo today in a vain bid to quash protests demanding an end to military rule. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 22 November 2011
22 November 2011 — williambowles.info Obama Must Condemn Egyptian Military Dissident Voice Today at 16:00 As we watch the Egyptian police and military viciously attack democracy activists on the streets of Cairo, using U.S. weapons, it is outrageous that the Obama Administration has failed to issue a strong condemnation of this latest attempt to crush Continue reading
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Cairo carnage: Shock footage shows cop atrocities — RT
Riot police are spreading tear gas and firing rubber bullets as the crowd of stone-throwing protesters at Egypt’s Tahrir Square begins to swell. RT’s Paula Slier reports from Cairo that the situation on the ground remains extremely tense. Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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From Gaddafi’s unknown grave, hidden volcanoes may erupt By Bhim Singh
NATO march off Libya immediately after the barbaric assassination of Col. Gaddafi has given rise to several bitter questions about the future of the sparsely populated oil-rich nation surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the North, Egypt in the East, Tunisia and Algeria in the West and Chad, Niger and Sudan in the South. Continue reading
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You Say You Want A Revolution. What Will Happen To Occupy Wall Street If It Loses Its Park? By Danny Schechter
The hard real-world contradictions of urban life have bumped up against the idyllic hopes of the occupiers as all the urban crises that our society has ignored and neglected surface in that half acre of hope. Continue reading
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Turn the World Upside Down: From Occupation to Revolution By John Spritzler
If OWS decides explicitly that its goal is revolution, it would transform the OWS movement. It would be a qualitative leap and set the agenda for the coming years: a national and international conversation about how to make a revolution and what a post-revolutionary society can be like. If OWS does this, then folding the… Continue reading
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Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), Continue reading
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This Is My Will by Muammar Gaddafi
Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives. Continue reading
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The Occupied Wall Street Journal – news from the revolution — RT
As some mainstream media networks continue bashing the Occupy Wall Street protests, the movement publishes its own newspaper at a secret location. RT takes a sneak peek into what the Journal is all about. Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 4-7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Women’s rights trio wins Nobel Peace Prize CBS News (CBS/AP) OSLO, Norway – Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, … http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/501364/main20117103.shtml Continue reading
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Welcome to the Revolution: Life @ OccupyWallStreet’s Liberty Park
I’ve spent countless hours at Liberty Park talking with people of all political persuasions, from all walks of life, from all over this country, no, check that, from all over the world. The second you walk into the occupation, you can’t help but get knocked around like a volleyball. At every turn, there is an… Continue reading
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In the belly of the beast By William Bowles
In case you hadn’t noticed, especially if you get your news from the MSM, there is the mother of all capitalist crises unfolding around us. A crisis that appears to be far deeper even than the Crash of ’29 and given the global nature of corporate capitalism, nobody (except the rich) can escape its awful… Continue reading
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Libya: NTC concocts mass grave story in brazen propaganda ploy and the BBC spreads it
In a truly stunning display of dishonesty, the BBC has reported, citing no evidence to back its claim, that a mass grave containing over 1,200 bodies has been found in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison complex. The BBC attempts to tie this ‘finding’ to the equally concocted ‘Abu Salim prison massacre’, as it claims that the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 