Video: David Swanson and Derrick Crowe on the Military as Enemy of the Environment
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February 2012
Exactly How Cheap the University of Virginia Is
Let’s approximate (and let’s go high) that the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has 2,000 direct and contracted (it won’t say how many contracted, so we have to guess) employees working for under $13 per hour as demanded by the Living Wage campaign. And let’s imagine they work on average 40 hours per week and 50 weeks a year, and let’s imagine they earn the bare legal mimimum of $7.25 per
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Chat I Just Had With Homeland Security
After publishing this report I was contacted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The individual involved never returned my call. Instead I heard from Brian Hale who said he had been with Director Morton at the event recently held at the University of Virginia and discussed in my report. He told me that ICE in fact had nothing to do with contacting activists, that in fact Ed Ryan (who had contacted local residents from
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Defense of "Anarchism" in Oakland Occupy or Anywhere Unconvincing
This reply to Hedges and defense of violence completely fails to persuade.
The primary argument seems to be that if you are not in Oakland and familiar with every detail you shalt not offer your advice. But knowing whether the person who smashed a window was wearing a mask or not hardly eliminates the possibility of usefully commenting on whether it helped or hurt to smash that window. The defense article describes violent clashes with police and concludes “No one can agree on
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ICE Director Confronted on Intimidation of Nonviolent Citizen Activism
John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spoke on Monday at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Here’s the University’s report. Here’s the local newspaper’s. Both report only on what Morton said, without mentioning what he was asked about by members of the audience following his opening remarks.
He could have been asked about record breaking deportations and the recklessness that has deported U.S. citizens. Perhaps
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Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party? Pollsters Don't Want You to Know.
A poll published on Wednesday at the Washington Post finds that a majority of even “liberal Democrats” approves of Obama killing US citizens. Of course, this would almost certainly be different if Obama were a Republican.
What if an organization with money but no partisanship (are there some?) were to commission a poll from a pollster willing to face a firestorm of attacks from the political parties (are there any such pollsters?), a poll that would ask people all their
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The Election We Should Be Following
For progressives and populists around the country who take an interest in Congressional races there are always a few good challengers we might hope to send to Washington. Incumbents, we assume, can take care of themselves.
But in Northern Ohio, redistricting has thrown two incumbents into one district. It’s a heavily Democratic district created purposely to guarantee a number of other districts to Republicans. The incumbents are both Democrats, both white, both 65, and many imagine
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U.S. Pursues War, Chaos in Middle East and North Africa
“If there is a substantial military strike on Iran, it is going to create mayhem in the region,” said Dr. Vijay Preshad, director of International Studies at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. “And that is precisely what the Gulf Arabs and the United States would like to see. The last thing they want is a proper Arab Spring germinate into new, democratic regimes in North Africa and Est Asia.”
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