Jun 16 2009
“The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'” — Carl Schurz …
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Jun 15 2009
Torturing Democracy
Jose Padilla, a US citizen arrested in 2002 for a so-called “dirty bomb” plot and sentenced to 17 years in prison for supporting Al Qaeda, is preparing to sue attorney John Yoo for crafting legal memos justifying his torture. Padilla alleges that during his three years as an “enemy combatant” at a US Navy installation in Charleston, South Carolina, he was tortured and his …
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Jun 15 2009
“Brave men do not gather by the thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.” — Ida B Wells …
Jun 12 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan
* Black Agenda Report on General Motors
* The Dark Side of Dubai
* Empire Notes on Obama’s Speech in Cairo
* Conspiracy Theories Obscure Real Political Analysis
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Jun 12 2009
The Power of Nightmares
BBC film maker Adam Curtis made this film, The Power of Nightmares just a few years after the September 11th 2001 attacks. His thesis is that both Western politicians who claim to protect us from terrorism, and radical Islamic fundamentalists who claim to fight US imperialism, are two sides of the same coin. Caught in the middle are, us, the civilian populations …
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Jun 12 2009
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie …
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Jun 11 2009
The Essential Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as an anarchist-leaning political dissident, and libertarian socialist intellectual.
Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US …
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Jun 11 2009
“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.” — Noam Chomsky …
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Jun 10 2009
Noam Chomsky at 80: media, democracy, dissent, Gaza, Afghanistan, health care, and more. …
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Jun 10 2009
KPFK is raising funds for its operations. Please help keep fund drives as short as possible – pledge now at 818-985-5735 or at www.kpfk.org. …
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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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