Scottish independence vote may put Cameron's job at risk, NATO puts our lives at risk
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Talk Nation Radio: Kevin Zeese on Activist Media, TPP, Climate, Wars
Kevin Zeese (at right in image) is an organizer at http://PopularResistance.org We discuss activist
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Nixon's Treason Now Acknowledged
A George Will column this week, reviewing a book by Ken Hughes called Chasing Shadows, mentions almost in passing that presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon secretly sabotaged peace talks that appeared likely to end the war on Vietnam until he intervened. As a result, the war raged on and Nixon won election promising to end the war.
Will treats the matter as a technicality, citing the law against private diplomacy rather than the principle that one shouldn’t undermine a government’s
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We Won't Forget Wisconsin
A new film called Wisconsin Rising is screening around the country, the subject, of course, being the activism surrounding the mass occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011. I recommend attending a planned screening or setting up a new one, and discussing the film collectively upon its conclusion. For all the flaws in Wisconsin’s activism in 2011 and since, other states haven’t even come close — most have a great deal to learn.
The film tells a story of one state,
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Talk Nation Radio: Keane Bhatt: Human Rights Watch Must Close Revolving Door to U.S. Government
Keane Bhatt is an activist and writer who has organized a campaign to close Human Rights Watch’s revolving door with the U.S.
United We Stand and Shout and Dance and Make it Better
I’m looking forward to speaking on Saturday, May 10, at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles (and at an earlier event) where dozens of speakers and musicians will be standing together against such evils as: “the PATRIOT Act, NDAA, NSA, war on drugs, drones, … war, GMO, … central banks, corporatism,” and in favor of “Internet freedom, election reform, honest media/music/art, education/student leadership, the environment, ….”
This is nice timing,
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Tim Carpenter Will Be Badly Missed
Tim Carpenter seemed unstoppable. He was part of the WarIsACrime website from day 1, when its name was AfterDowningStreet. He was part of activism in this country from long before that. He was an organizer, a lobbyist, a rabble rouser, and a talker. The cell phone never left his ear, but that didn’t prevent him talking to you in person, and getting in more words per minute — and all of them right to the point — than an auctioneer. His emails were shorter,
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Here Comes Ukrainian Hemp
So the United States wants to buy hemp from the Ukraine. I suppose we should be happy. Anytime the U.S. government gives a country money that is not earmarked for weapons, we probably shouldn’t too closely examine the unelected neo-liberals and neo-Nazis handling the cash. Nobody pays attention to the Saudi government or the oil, wars, and terrorism it provides in exchange for U.S. largesse.
Of course if the hemp buy is part of a larger package deal that impoverishes the Ukraine for
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There Is A Deeper Wave Than This
A wave of action is coming on April 4th, the date they killed MLK, the date Cindy Sheehan lost her son, the date cherry blossoms and resisters to fascism begin to show after an endless winter of many, many years. Take a look at https://waveofaction.org
Electing a different president six years ago was not a partial step, a failed attempt, a warm-up round. It was a halftime show of circus clowns and cheerleaders. The partial step, the failed attempt, the warm up, the ground work, the
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