Dec 15 2008
The Assassination of Chief Sitting Bull by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
One-hundred and eighteen years ago on this day in people’s history, Chief Sitting Bull was murdered by Lakota police. On December 15th, 1890, the symbol of enduring Native American resistance was shot in the head following an attempted arrest. After a …
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Dec 15 2008
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” — David Brin …
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Dec 12 2008
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* Afghanistan: Military Solution the Problem Not the Solution
* Empire Notes on the Real Victims of the Iraq War
* Jay Garner’s New Job: Securing Iraqi Oil Contracts
* Black Agenda Report on Black Colleges
* A History Lesson on …
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Dec 12 2008
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has just arrived in Afghanistan to further his case for 20,000 extra US troops by next Spring. The increase in troops has been a foreign policy center piece of the incoming Obama administration during the election campaign and after. There are currently 34,000 troops in the country, fighting …
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Dec 12 2008
Among the remaining top posts that President Elect Barack Obama is expected to name in the remaining weeks of this year is Secretary of Agriculture. That post, which requires confirmation by the Senate, is a crucial one, heading the US Department of Agriculture, overseeing the entire US food supply including organic standards, farm …
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Dec 12 2008
According to the late French author and historian Daniel Guerin, “the word anarchy is as old as the world.†Since that time, the political ideal has faced contesting definitions and notions from both the right and the left. Proving over time not to be relegated to romanticized thought, anarchism instead has been a …
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Dec 12 2008
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Black colleges.
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Dec 12 2008
The Batang Kali Massacre by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Exactly sixty years ago on this day in people’s history, the Batang Kali Massacre occurred in Malaya. On December 12th, 1948, twenty-four unarmed villagers were killed by the Scots Guard regiment of the British Army. The massacre occurred six-months into what would become …
Dec 12 2008
“Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.†— Emma Goldman …
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Dec 11 2008
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference continues in Poznan, Poland, environmental activists are warning climate financing should not be the domain of the World Bank. More than 160 citizen groups from dozens of countries presented a joint statement today calling for a UN global climate fund to help poorer countries construct low-carbon …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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