Sunday, November 24, 2024

Police turn in badges rather than incite violence against Standing Rock protestors

At least two police officers turned in their badges today after acknowledging that attacking peaceful protestors is not what they signed up for.

The Top Nine Developments that Defined the Struggle between Democracy and Plutocracy in 2015

“Just as democracy and peace are mutually reinforcing, perpetual war and perpetual corruption are mutually reinforcing. The concentrated power involved in conducting war corrupts; corruption undermines democracy, the surest way to peace.”

Make America ungovernable

Now is the time to shut down the systems of power. Now is the time to resist.

They Knew: Michigan Officials Started Giving Clean Water to State Employees A Year Ago

State employees Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budgets were notified of Flint's water not being up to federal standards and were provided with clean water a year before residents of the city.

North Dakota vs. Amy Goodman: Journalism Is Not a Crime

We will fight this charge. Freedom of the press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. North Dakota, muzzle the dogs, not the press.

Sy Hersh, exposer of My Lai and Abu Ghraib, strikes again, exposing U.S. lies...

What if you write a critically important story and nobody will print it?

Hillary: Gender, Power, and “It’s Not Me, It’s You”

This weekend Madeleine Albright introduced Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire saying, “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women."

600+ water protectors facing criminal charges unlikely to receive fair trials

“It appears that the state's strategy is to simply delay discovery, charge people based on collective action and not individual acts which can be established by admissible evidence, and then hope for a conviction from a jury overwhelmingly biased towards law enforcement and the state.”

Sanders and Clinton Clash Over Soda Tax

Despite the fact that Clinton pledged not to impose any new taxes on households earning under $250,000 a year, she recently broke her promise by supporting Philadelphia’s proposed soda tax.

Reign of idiots

Trump embodies the essence of this decayed, intellectually bankrupt and immoral world.