May 2011

The Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Has Been Drugged

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Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington, D.C., could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid look like warm-up acts. It is certainly true that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens is the only thing that ever has changed the world for the better.

So, what happens if a society picks out a significant slice of its population, one including many thoughtful and committed citizens, read more

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The Media Is A Curable Disease

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Rupert Murdoch, who got his start in business marketing rats and manure, has chosen to deny Italy access to a television network that has presented critical coverage of both Murdoch and of leading Italian media baron and prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The network, Current TV, is the project of a man identified in Italy primarily as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore.

Here’s Gore in Italy denouncing Murdoch’s move: (play read more

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Wars As Present As One's Tongue: A Letter From Mumia Abu-Jamal on Death Row

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By Mumia Abu Jamal

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Produced by Prison Radio.

I wonder sometimes if the average American stops, looks at the chaos in the world, and wonders, how did we get here?

Does she simply shrug it off as ‘fate’, shake the thought away, and go shopping at the mall in thrall to the new?

Does he put it down as a latter-day expression of the biblical proverb, ‘there will be wars, and rumors of war’, and turn to the latest game on ESPN and mist over the doubt, the fear, read more

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Louder Than Words

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If you like the idea of an independent online force for peace and social justice, join us now.

This video is the first in a series — intended to generate independent progressive activism in the run up to the 2012 Presidential election and beyond.

RootsAction is part of a growing grassroots movement to push the President and Congress to address pressing economic and war issues — and to invest in jobs, green energy, schools, housing read more

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Was a Military Coup Attempted in the UK in the 1970s?

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I suppose some 0.05 percent of Americans are familiar with the Wall Street coup attempt against FDR, so why would we know about a military coup plot in the UK just because it happened in our own lifetimes? Still, I was a little surprised to read Francis Wheen in “Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies” mention that

“Even Sir Michael Henley, the head of MI5 in the mid 1970s, was later obliged to admit to [Harold] Wilson that some members of the security service had been ‘behaving read more

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Republicans in Congress to Crown Obama King

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In what will come as a shock to the Tea Party and yet probably not rival the recent royal wedding in London for viewership, Republican Congressman Buck McKeon and Republican Senator John McCain plan to crown President Barack Obama King of America. They’re not kidding, and this is no stunt.

Here’s what noted Republican Abraham Lincoln once wrote on the subject:

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you read more

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Support Killing People Or Lose Your Job

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“Ban the bombers are afraid of a fight
“Peace hurts business and that ain’t right
“How do I know? I read it in the Daily News”
–Tom Paxton

PBS (the P stands for “Pure” I think) is concerned that if the U.S. government stops funding the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. economy will crash:

“An executive at a small defense contractor recently joked to me, ‘Afghanistan is our business plan.’ I asked him what he would do if the war ended. read more

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