It had to come to this: DC Police Confrontation

Freedom's end At this link is a fabulous photo documentary of the tearing down of Occupy DC at Freedom Plaza, McPherson Square. The photos capture and record some of the agony of the protest and artifacts from the...

Occupy DC is under siege at McPherson Square

Time to go With unemployment dropping and the Occupy movement getting bad press for flag burning and hacking, it was time to move on the tents. There was marginal return on protests, apparently. If the President...

bomb 'em anyway

U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment: Iran Has Not Decided to Pursue Building Nuclear Weapons In two hearings this week, and in a lengthy, prepared annual global threat assessment, representing the views ...

Occupy DC: Tensions Rise, Police Tase and Arrest Protester 'Lash'

As the National Park Service enforces a regulation banning camping at McPherson Square that began at noon on Monday, many protesters are still "camped out" on grounds claiming their right to free speech and...

Oakland – Flashpoint for Violence

Oakland California is like dry brush and timber, kindling for explosive civil disturbance, ready to ignite. I felt the heat when I had my office there in the late 1990’s. Even after a firestorm struck the Oakland...

what would martin do

Mark Engler January 15, 2010   |    This article appeared in the February 1, 2010 edition of The   Martin Luther King Jr. was working hard to get people to...

Fein - Obama is God

Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein, who has called publicly for Obama's impeachment, has penned a devastating psychological attack on the President, which appeared on Jan. 5th on The Daily Caller website....

Old Mutual Shuts Down Independent Zimbabwe Arts Hangout

One of Zimbabwe’s legendary arts and culture hangout, the Book Cafe and Mannenberg, located at the Five Avenues Mall in Harare’s Avenues suburb is scheduled to close its doors to the public at the end of the year due to lack of lease renewal by Old Mutual Property, owners...

merry xmas and a happy nuclear winter

Panetta Interview To Give Obama's `Green Light' to Israel to bomb Iran Concern has been expressed about Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's ominous interview with CBS-TV News, which appears to give Israel a "green...

motherhood, apple pie, and surveillance

BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION BUILDING TO BILLS FOR POLICE-STATE INTERNET CONTROL Two bills now before the House and the Senate, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act, H.R. 3261) and PIPA (Protect IP Act, S. 968), purport to...

shh...i'm busy watching my neighbor

BROOKINGS: COMING SOON, UBIQUITOUS PRECRIME SURVEILLANCE According to a report released by the Brookings Institution's Center for Technological Innovation Dec. 14, the technology will soon exist to make...

Clinton for Prez in 2012

PETITION CIRCULATING TO 'DRAFT HILLARY CLINTON AS THE 2012 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT' The following petition, referred to in an article posted on {Politico} by Pat Cadell and Douglas Schoen, is being ...

libyan script won't work in syria

RUSSIAN ANALYST PANARIN EXPOSES ``BRITISH-AMERICAN'' PLOT AGAINST SYRIA ``A part of the British-American elite is playing the leading role in media campaign against Syria, which is no surprise after their...

no monsters to destroy

U.S. MILITARY OPPOSED TO IRAN STRIKES, DOESN'T BELIEVE IN ``ISRAEL FIRST,'' SAYS WILKERSON Quoting American System President John Quincy Adams on an Al Jazeera roundtable aired today, Col. Larry Wilkerson, the...

war avoidance - saner heads

RUSSIA STEP-BY-STEP PROPOSAL ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM OFFERS HOPE OF AVOIDING WAR New ideas for the reduction of the Iranian war danger were presented during an Asia Society forum on Dec. 13 with Hossein...

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