IMF Forecasts Low Growth, High Debts and Prices (tags)
Ahead of IMF, World Bank and G20 Meetings, IMF Head Delivers Views on Global Economy
World Leaders Meet for Spring IMF, World Bank and G20 Meetings (tags)
World leaders, finance ministers, business groups, academics and development organizations attend the Spring IMF, World Bank and G20 meetings.
Morocco G20 Finance Meetings Make Few Decisions on Crisis Response (tags)
G20 finance ministers met on global economic growth, debt, inflation, expanding development bank aid, the pandemic and other crises.
African Catholic Bishops: Marrakesh Meetings Should Act on “True Jubilee of Hope in Africa (tags)
World leaders attending the annual IMF, G20 and World Bank meetings should promote urgent debt relief, aid and lending policies to address the interlinked crises African countries face, noted a body that represents African Catholic Bishops.
IMF and World Bank Meetings Wrestle with Low Growth, High Interest Rates, Debt Crises and (tags)
As world leaders arrive for the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings, the IMF forecasts the global economy to grow 3% this year, which remains below the average of growth for the two decades before the pandemic.
Jubilee USA Statement on IMF Global Financial Stability Report (tags)
The IMF releases the Global Financial Stability Report and raises global concerns over continued inflation, the banking system and climate investments.
Elisabeth Bronfen: "What amazes me most is the stubborn ability to repress" (tags)
We've greatly reduced the required reading... Five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, plus the one compulsory piece of Shakespeare from the basic course and vampire and fantasy stories. If very little is read, diversity goes out the window, too.
The greatest show on earth (tags)
"It takes considerable fragmentation in the media portrayal of these crimes and radical recontextualization as a 'struggle for democracy and human rights' for crimes of this magnitude, as well as their historical continuity, to become virtually invisible to the public. Although all of this is extensively documented, these crimes are virtually absent from the public consciousness."
Hundreds of Billions in New Lending on the Table at Cote d’Ivoire Gathering (tags)
World Development Banks Meet for Third Annual Summit
Scientists read dreams and thoughts (tags)
"The remarkable breakthrough makes use of a fairly straightforward idea: that when we visualize certain types of objects in our minds, our brains generate consistent neural patterns that can then be correlated with what is being visualized."
Global Youth Climate Strike in Los Angeles (tags)
Many young people carried signs expressing fear or fatalism about their futures. One read, “I’m studying for a future that doesn’t exist.” Various other signs advocated eating vegan (e.g., “Go vegan or go extinct”). Another one reportedly said, “The wrong Amazon is burning.”
DIARY OF A CON MAN . 47 (tags)
the anne frank swindle
Read the book about tax cheats Swiss banks.
The Purse is Mightier than the Pen (tags)
The climate crisis is here now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn't want to know. What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient.
Police shootings 2017 database - Washington Post (tags)
Police shootings database 2017
"Trump does not read much" (tags)
A new supposed weakness of the populist is now discovered: he doesn't read...Trump is certainly a new phenomenon. He pretends to be an outsider of the political system and of knowledge.
State Legislature is where it's at (tags)
I got this bit of self-promoting spam in my mailbox, and it's a good example of a few things I want to tell my Greens.
Is this the world's most radical mayor? Ada Colau of Barcelano (tags)
Adfa Colau spent the first years of the new millennium embroiled in activism, protesting and campaigning against wars, poor housing and gentrification. While working for the PAH, she developed her distinctive style of speech, which rests on a sincere, if carefully crafted, populism.
LA Times Fails to Cover Protest Against Clinton (tags)
An estimated one thousand protesters came out to oppose Hillary Clinton speaking at East Los Angeles College on 5 de Mayo for a predictable campaign stop to Hispander to Latinos.
What I Didn't Read in the TTIP Reading Room (tags)
Katja Kipping was one of the first German MPs to gain access to the new TTIP reading room opened in Berlin this week, and she has written up a report of her experience. We thought it was well worth translating from the original, ‘The Opposite of Transparency’.
The Internationalist No. 42 is out! (tags)
Read the journal of revolutionary Marxism.
Notice to all who read my material (tags)
This notice is prompted by the violence directed at me by the fbi in their efforts to intimidate, threaten, or silence me.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership suggests Obama has no sense of irony (tags)
The president’s statement that there’s nothing secret in the classified agreement is plainly wrong, writes Evan Greer
Open Letter to LA indymedia re hardly any more comments (tags)
changes to keep out the riff-raff repeaters were made here at la.indy.media and notice the lack of effort most will make to jump the hurdles and whatallittakes to respond, even if we want to we seem to say "why bother if it takes that much More effort ?"
Argentina Battles in Two World Cups (tags)
While National Team Prepares to Face Bosnia, Government Fights Hedge Funds at US Supreme Court
There Is A Petition For Single Payer Health Insurance (tags)
Read about this petition then sign it and tell everybody about it.
Los Angeles Joins Nationwide March Against Mainstream Media #MAMSM (tags)
A nationwide rally on April 19, 2014 outside mainstream media studios raised awareness about the corporate control of mainstream media.
Geekout's Links 9.7.2013 (tags)
This time around, it's some Syrian history, Chelsea Manning, race in Jamaica, and thoughts about the future of labor.
Erich Fromm on Karl Marx (tags)
The capitalist production method makes a few persons absurdly rich while the others hardly have enough to survive. Capitalism also makes people unfree and unhappy because their access to their true needs is blocked.
Book Announcement: Hijacking the Holy Qur'an and Islam (tags)
Why is the Holy Qur'an and Islam so easy to Hijack for "imperial mobilization"?
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces (tags)
"Copenhagen’s comeback gives hope to people around the world who want to make sure that lively public places don’t disappear in this era of rampant traffic, proliferating privatization and heightened security..."
The world’s richest 22 people own more than Switzerland produces (tags)
Four heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, the two Koch brothers who inherited their father’s company and two software moguls piggybacking on the government-created Internet are among those whose wealth is in the stratosphere.
The Crisis and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Box (tags)
Claude Hillinger is a professor of economics at the University of Munich.
John Brooks: Occupy Inspires Neophyte to Run for Congress (tags)
John Brooks was a retired agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife until he saw the Occupy San Diego protests on TV and was inspired to run for Congress as an alternative Democrat. Though he ran afoul of the San Diego Democrats for Equality's endorsement process, he's recently been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America and his real views on Queer rights and women's choice are far more progressive than the Democrats for Equality's questionnaire made them sound.
Israelis and Iranians Against War (tags)
Iran
Banner Drops Urge Veto of NDAA (tags)
December 16, 2011
RIVERSIDE (California) - Approximately six banners were hung from various freeway overpasses urging morning rush hour commuters to call Obama and ask him to veto the National Defense Authorization Act.
America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.
America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.
Obama Orders Treason Against Occupy Wall Street (tags)
More details are being fished out of the pool of obscured coverage of the Obama regime's orders issued to the Department of Homeland Security, ordering the violent, treasonous assaults against peaceful, law-abiding citizens who are demanding true Democracy and sane Capitalism, something that our nation's enemies must stop at all cost.
America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.
International Day for Eradication of Poverty and Chris Hedges (tags)
Since 2000, October 17 has been the United Nation's International Day for Eradication of Poverty.
Entrapping Muslims in America (tags)
persecution
A series copied from a content bucket about politics.
The Flaw and Words Can't Magic Away the Trade Deficit (tags)
One recurring delusion in the controversy over America's free-trade-induced trade mess is the idea that our gigantic trade deficit, which fluctuates around $500 billion a year, somehow "doesn't matter." Systemic and structural contradictions are often repressed; economic problems are trivialized.
The Price of 9/11 by Tom Hayden and Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Tom Hayden is an activist, former state senator in California and prolific author defending the rights of nature and the right to dissent. Joseph Stiglitz is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner for economics and professor at Columbia University.
Video: No US stay in Iraq beyond December (tags)
to read "The risks of the Keystone XL pipeline," an editorial from the LA Times, July 14, 2011, click on http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-yellowstone-20110714,0,6833153.story
Video: David Sirota - Back to Our Future (tags)
David Sirota is a newspaper columnist, radio host and bestselling author.
Chatting with the US Marshals… "Fool me once... etc." (tags)
Mutual interest, but some basic difficulties in communication…
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange (tags)
" The corporate owners have decimated newsrooms, making it impossible for good journalists to do their job. There's no time or money anymore for investigative journalism. Simply put, investors don't want those stories exposed. They like their secrets kept ... as secrets. I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo. That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings." Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks. But if that document had been leaked, how would you or I have reacted? What would Congress or the FAA have done? Was there not a greater chance that someone, somewhere would have done something if all of us knew about bin Laden's impending attack using hijacked planes? But back then only a few people had access to that document. Because the secret was kept, a flight school instructor in San Diego who noticed that two Saudi students took no interest in takeoffs or landings, did nothing. Had he read about the bin Laden threat in the paper, might he have called the FBI? (Please read this essay by former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, Time's 2002 co-Person of the Year, about her belief that had WikiLeaks been around in 2001, 9/11 might have been prevented.) Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read "secret" memos from Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the "facts" he wanted in order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do you think that the war would have been launched -- or rather, wouldn't there have been calls for Cheney's arrest?"
Human Rights Alert (NGO): US *** Stars*** and Most Read Records on the Scribd Site (tags)
Human Rights Alert (NGO) and Joseph Zernik, PhD, marked the 200,000th read on the Scribd site, launched in January 2010, by releasing the list of best read documents and most read subjects.
A `Dumb War': Taking Stock of the Iraq Invasion (tags)
With its invasion of Iraq, the United States rid the Iraqi people of a tyrant. But it also broke the law and destroyed tens of thousands of lives. With the release of close to 400,000 Iraq logs by WikiLeaks and the coming publication of George W. Bush's memoir, it is time to take stock of a war that was catastrophic for Iraq and America's standing in the world.
ALWAYS Click "view hidden posts" on articles here .... (tags)
too many people tell Indy folks to hide a post they dont like ...a viewpoint....a description they dont want... a way to censor any dissent or disagreement....and occasionally an obscene or nasty words strung together just to make crud in print. Many are not "hate" or bad or insulting. Check it out for yourself by clicking "view hidden posts" at top of article before seeing what comments ARE available to read.
Spider Man 4 art director molests Transgender rock star (tags)
Spider Man 4 art director molests transgender rock star
Voting for GrassrootsKPFK: It Matters (tags)
Another repost from TakeBackKPFK.org (a letter they received from a board member), this time on who to vote for and why. The website admits it's partisan, but there is some insight into what's at stake in these elections.
The True Cost of the War (tags)
To avert Republican gains in November, Obama must create jobs that pay into social security, reduce crippling state debts and end the lie that Afghanistan is a necessary and just war. Peace and resistance are part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies.
Americans are docile and generous slaves.
As simple as it gets
We urgently need alternatives to a future of stagnation and deficits. The community centers in Vancouver B.C. have a multiplier effect as surrogate counseling and class possibilities. Social justice, solidarity and sharing open doors.
Executive Privilege (Must read about Afghan quagmire & Elena Kagan) (tags)
US Support for Israel is Taking US Down!
Anti-war Protest This Friday, May 7th in West LA (tags)
Please join us for our on the corner of National and Barrington in West LA this Friday, May 7th, between 6 and 7 p.m., to speak out against the escalation of war in Afghanistan and the continued military occupation there by our U.S. forces.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
TEMECULA - Approximately 130 members of the Temecula community marched and rallied for immigrant rights and against the recently-approved Arizona law SB 1070.
Grenades, gunshots, and Feingold's call for rigthts in Rwanda (tags)
On March 5th, three days after Senator Russ Feingold, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa, called for the opening of political space in Rwanda, grenades exploded again in Kigali, with 16 people hurt, some critically.
Disputed histories of the Rwanda genocide (tags)
I was alarmed to read Amil Omara-Otunnu's one-sided history, "Rwanda Genocide: Lessons for Human Rights Advocacy," in the Black Star News, as tension around Rwanda's disputed genocide history increases prior to the August 2010 presidential election.
Who knows the history prospers... and it takes revenge.
in the eye of the storm (tags)
in the eye of the storm
Walter G. Meyer: Queer Youth Novel “Rounding Third” Is About More than Baseball (tags)
Queer author Walter G.Meyer has written a remarkable first novel, “Rounding Third.” At base it's a story of two middle American Gay teens who meet each other on the high-school baseball team in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. But it’s also an intensely moving, often heart-rending tale of the terror under which Queer youth still grow up as well as the often surprising sources of support they find as they struggle with their identities. And, lest readers think this is a problem that we’ve grown beyond as a society, Meyer inserts modern communications technology — the Internet, cell phones, texting and iPods — to make sure readers know these are live issues in 2010 and not dimly remembered horrors of the 1950’s or 1970’s.
SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS: BE REAL, DON’T LIVE IN A DREAM AND ACT (tags)
The US & the rest of the western countries know what the solution is to the worsening environmental problem the world is facing today: drastic reduction in consumption, period! Walk, take the bus, sell your car for scraps, boycott fast food, wear cotton or better yet reduce your wardrobe to few pieces, use old newspaper to wrap food products, drink out of glass jars, don't watch tv. Read instead or entertain your family by singing or playing a guitar or banjo, go to the library instead of movies, have a 6 hr. workday and 4 day workweek....etc!!!
39th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium: "Still Here, Still A Force" (tags)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
EAST LOS ANGELES--Thirty-nine years ago, a statewide series of demonstrations by Chicanos and Chicanas against the wars in Southeast Asia culminated in a police riot and the assassination of Los Angeles Times and KMEX journalist Rubén Salazar. Today, members of the Chicanx community and activists of all stripes commemorated the day's fateful events with music, poetry, teatro, and speakers.
Tucson police: UMC staff photographed patient's 'ambiguous genitalia' (tags)
Some doctors are perverts. Make sure your doctor is not secretly photographing you.
Chris Burnett is host of "Indymedia On Air" on KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles
Stop the MASSACRE
1/17 Palestine Watch:Latest News from Israel Invasion of Gaza, Over 1,200 Killed (tags)
The death toll from the now more than three weeks of assault stands at 1,199 Palestinians killed, including more than 400 children according to UN and Palestinian medical sources....
1/14: Palestine Watch:Latest News/Videos from Israeli Invasion & Killings in Gaza (tags)
The Israeli army continued its offensive against the Gaza Strip for the seventeenth day on Monday, killed twenty-six Palestinians, including 23 civilians, and wounded dozens of residents. At least 917 Palestinians were killed and more than 4260 were injured since the army initiated its attack....
1/12 Palestine Watch:War and Natural Gas-Israeli Invasion & Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields (tags)
Here's another critical information the reason behind Israeli invasion of Gaza, has been motivated by the Gaza's offshore oilfield. Major oil companies like: BP and CCC are involved....
1/10 Palestine Watch: People worldwide protest against Israel+Videos (tags)
The prolonged Israeli war and killing against Gaza has triggered continued anti-Israeli demonstrations across the globe....
1/9: Palestine Watch: Israeli War on Gaza Continues Despite UN Truce Call (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Israeli War and Massacre on Gaza Continues Despite UN Truce Call, Senate Pass Pro-Israel Legislation!
1/3: Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza, Worldwide Protest Against Invasion (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Worldwide Protest Against Israeli Invasion and Killing at Gaza
Family ripped apart by Scientology reunited (tags)
The people of Anonymous world wide have been working to destyroy the Scientology crime syndicate, doing so with wit, humor, and creativity. The number of Scientology customers world wide is down to less than 40,000, and many of the families that the Scientology crime syndicate has destroyed are being reunited and restored thanks to Anonymous.
The Last Pharaoh’s Video Released -- Free Sneak Preview on Youtube…. (tags)
“This is the book that The Last Pharaoh and his gang do not want you to read and are trying to ban from circulation. This is the book that is a must read for every Western politician and decision maker, not to mention those who enjoy a true story. It should be under the pillow of Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin”,
Who's Really Running Iraq? (tags)
The success of `the Surge' is becoming almost received wisdom in the US. This is strange since, if the US strategy did win such an important victory, why do American generals need more soldiers, currently 147,000 of them in Iraq, than they did before `the Surge' started?
KPFK Begins Fund Drive but Continues to Ignore Critics (tags)
KPFK started its Spring fund raising drive Wednesday while continuing to ignore listener critics and keeping its listener web discussion forums turned off.
Those readers who follow the breaking stories in the Laguna Journal, the oldest online newspaper in the world, are well-informed readers indeed. The world gets the real news before any other news service even knows what’s happening.
Block Report Radio interview with Mumia (tags)
POCC: Block Report Radio interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal aired on KPFA Flashpoints program on 7 April 2008 Transcribed by the Partisan Defense Committee, 15 April 2008. The PDC is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization which champions cases and causes in the interest of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League. Audio Link: http://www.partisandefense.org/media/Mumia-Flashpoints.mp3
LA Time Opinion Piece Sells Tibet Down the River (tags)
LA Times Columnist Tim Rutten did a hatchet job on Tibetan human rights struggle with his April 9 Op Ed in which he claims that protests don't do any good and implies we should just let the tyrants have their Olympics of Barbarism unopposed.
Barack Obama Lies About His Rezko Scandal (tags)
The news media is refusing to report on Barack Obama and the Rezko scandal.
Yes the war has been declared. It has been declared against humanities freedoms, liberties and health. You have been unknowingly disarmed. You have lost the most powerful weapon. That weapon is knowledge of the truth. Society has been fed a diet of professional propaganda lies since before your birth.
Book Review: Peter Gelderloos' How Nonviolence Protects the State (tags)
Read the review that Peter Gelderloos called "assinine and misleading" and Chuck O called "Bill White Lite." Try to read Pete's book too. It's fucking hilarious. Don't miss out on what 1100 other anarchists have already read!
Transgenders Criticize LGB Choice of Film for Festival (tags)
This Saturday, July 21, Outfest is showing the controversial new film, GENDERCATOR at the Village, 1125 N. McCaden Pl, Hollywood, @ 6 pm. It has been labeled alarmingly transphobic (towards trans men) by many, and was even pulled from San Francisco's film festival, Frameline.
The Misuse of gandhi: the case of CANVAS (tags)
here is an organisation called CANVAS that misuses Gandhis non-violent philosophy, in order to bring down states that dont obey the Washington consensus...i bet few have heard of them.
Ron Paul - "Libertarian" (tags)
Ron Paul is hot in antiwar circles on account of his performance in the Republican presidential candidates debates as the only antiwar candidate in a field of Bushie super-hawks. Every moderate, liberal, progressive, or left activist and every Democrat, Green, or independent voter should Read This before jumping onto the bandwagon.
Secrets about the State Secrets Privilege (tags)
Four things wrong with the Bush administration's use of the State Secrets Privilege
Follow Chavez's Lead; Nationalize US Oil (tags)
Chavez took the needed step of nationalizing Venezuela's petroleum reserves to prevent multinational corporations (ie., Exxon-Mobil)from theft of resources. Here in US, we would be wise to follow Chavez's example..
CSPAN to air KPFA's 911 and American Empire - Intellectuals Speak Out (tags)
The September 24 KPFA event from Berkeley, CA, will air on C-Span's Book TV this weekend. Featured speakers: David Ray Griffin Kevin Ryan Peter Dale Scott Peter Phillips Ray McGovern EST PST Friday Nov 24th: 4:00pm 1:00pm Saturday Nov 25th: 3:30am 12:30am 10:00pm 7:00pm
Transgender Day of Remembrance: THE NAMES (tags)
11/20/06 part 3 - READING OF THE NAMES
New $20 ID card proposed for U.S. border crossers (tags)
And next it will be used for an internal passport.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITIONS: VOTERS BEWARE (tags)
Today voters need to beware when going to the polls to vote because much is at stake. Voters need to study the propositions and read their Official Voter Information Guide; and for those who will not, they need to vote no to spending their hard earn dollars and the future savings of our children. Voters should not be persuaded by expensive TV commercials because those commercials are more expensive than what we can realize.
Review By Bill Gallagher, First Published 9-10-01
Barry And The Boys: The CIA, The Mob, and Americas Secret History (tags)
Reveiw By Bill Gallagher, First Published 9-10-01
South Central Farmers v. Horowitz, et al Court Decision (tags)
Please read the decision for yourself. Horowitz gets slapped.
Dispatch from Ground Zero (4th in a series) (tags)
09/10/06 Protest at the World Trade Center site
Nuclear Holocaust and The Politics of Radiation (tags)
This event featured three speakers: Doug Rokke, a Vietnam and Gulf War I Veteran and the Army's expert on depleted uranium; Leuren Moret, a whistle-blower from Livermore National Laboratory, expert lecturer on the health effects of depleted uranium; and Veteran Staff Sergeant Dennis Kyne who served as an Army medic during Gulf War I. Because they speak out about depleted uranium (DU), all three of these people are constantly harassed by the US government and its agents. Both Rokke and Kyne are in extremely serious medical condition because of their exposure to depleted uranium and other toxicants that the military tells our valiant warriors are safe. You may listen to all three lectures on Mindfully.org by clicking on the appropriate link below. Rokke's and Moret's have been transcribed. If you have time, please help us by transcribing Dennis Kyne's lecture and we will post it.
SUV hit & run driver prompts pharma treatment (tags)
The recent tragedy when a "mentally-ill" SUV hit-&run driver plowed into pedestrians in SF is being used by pharma corporations (& neo-liberals) to advertise their "mental hygiene" products..
UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA (tags)
UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
author: truth realized I dont feel well...
Iraq 3rd Anniversary Call to Action! End The War in Iraq! Bring Troop Beck Home Now! (tags)
Call to Action! 3 Years Too Many! End To The War in Iraq Bring The Troops Home Now!
A (Very Short) Honor Roll of House Members Who Are Standing Up for the Constitution (tags)
While the representatives who have joined Rep. Conyers in calling for censure and for impeachment investigations of Bush and Cheney, the most remarkable thing about this little list is who is not on it.
Photos, quick report on protest/march against Costa Mesa police (tags)
Members of A.N.S.W.E.R., Colectivo Tonantzin, S.E.I.U., Anarchists, and more protested and marched in Costa Mesa.
Got this idea while thinking about the ambush the CIA is playing on the neocons.
Critics name their favourite books of the year 2005
Introducing Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, #60 (tags)
Every time an anarchist says, “I believe in democracy,” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
(from MD's Democracy)
UN cannot be reformed: Chavez tells people of US to fight for socialism (tags)
Bolivarian Revolution
Speaking Truth to Power (tags)
I would like to acknowledge the following professors for this dialogue and article about a sensitive issue in the Chicano movement: Mario Barrera of Berkeley, Noam Chomsky of MIT, Chuck O’Connell of UC Irvine, and Jorge Mariscal of UC San Diego.
Still Hiding the Bush Bulge (tags)
Spiking of a story about the Bush bulge is an “internal matter,” a Pasadena paper says. -------------
BREAKING: Evidence mounts that London bombings were a state-sponsored "inside job&qu (tags)
Attentive journalists have already uncovered solid evidence that the London bombings were an "inside job," orchestrated--or at least "allowed" to happen--by industry and government insiders (US, UK, and/or others). Just like last year's Madrid train bombings, and just like 9/11. Read the following aticles and book excerpts, and spread the word! WE HAVE A CHANCE RIGHT NOW--BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA SPIN A MYTH THAT WILL EXPAND THEIR WARS--TO DEMAND AND LEARN THE TRUTH.
HOW TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE FROM BUSH LIES IN 2005 (tags)
THIS BOOK SHOWS HOW FAR BACK BUSH LIES GO AND HOW THE BUSH FAMILY LIVES THE LIE SO THEY CAN RIP YOU OFF AND KILL YOUR CHILDREN...
Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist wants to redistribute the wealth in Mexico and America (tags)
Announces two interviews on "illegal" immigration from two vastly different viewpoints.
Abe Foxman Attacks U.S. Naval Academy! (tags)
Abe Foxman is a windbag! His organization, the ADL, got caught, back in the 90s, with its pants down, spying on political groups. It was the shameless Foxman, too, who was exposed, taking $250,000 in donations for his organization from sleazy Marc Rich, while working to get him a presidential pardon. Now, Foxman is laboring to get the U.S. into an unnecessary war with Iran, while attacking the U.S. Naval Academy for its noontime prayer session!
the un isn't to be trusted.
Zero Hour in Bolivia: What to Watch for Today (tags)
Today, the ghosts of Bolivia’s 180 years of simulated democracy will haunt the empty halls of the Bolivian Congress in La Paz at 10:30 a.m. as the Senators and Deputies of the disgraced official parties convene 740 kilometers away, in Sucre, to sign a death warrant on a nation’s hopes for authentic democracy.
ISRAEL TO BUSH: READ MY LIPS (tags)
This article warns America about the danger in it's present policy toward Israel.
US Using Thought Reading Tech on Citizens (tags)
Thought Reading Tech & Civil Rights
US Using Thought Reading Tech on Citizens
Inching Towards The New Center - (Left-Wing Political Science) (tags)
No Summary
Original Publishers - Metroland -and- American Federation of Teachers Religious conservatives in Texas are pressuring textbook publishers to conform to their agenda—which is changing schoolbooks everywhere.
Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow (tags)
One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Global Leadership Conference 2005: Chairman Sidney Taurel tells company leaders that "we must maintain our sense of urgency" in carrying out the 2005 priorities while adapting swiftly to the demands of a tough, ever-changing environment. (Urgent because we are sinking like a ton of Bricks) (Tougher for LLY to lie their way out. The evidence is mounting against them.) (Swiftly, because consumers are fed up with LLY Crap &Lies) Taurel emphasized those messages in opening and closing comments at the annual global leadership conference (GLC). More than 150 Lilly leaders from around the world attended in Indianapolis.
George Bush at No. 1 Heart Hospital Thurs. for Private Meeting -- TREATMENT? (tags)
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Saturday that President George W. Bush would be at the Cleveland Clinic on Thursday, Jan. 27 for a "tech trip." The consultation in Cleveland is PRIVATE. White House spokesman Jim Morrel said it is part of a push to "discuss providing affordable health care to more Americans and other initiatives." However, the trip to Cleveland is said to be specifically to DISCUSS the benefits of "health information technology." Mr. Bush is not known to have any medical or information technology expertise but is known to have a heart irregularity.
The 10 best writers on the net (tags)
Get the best news on the net, its real and you won't find it in main stream sources.
Indybay Print Collective presents Fault Lines - Issue 6 (tags)
Issue 6 of Fault Lines has hit the streets!
Fallujah, the Hue of Iraq (tags)
US troops are following Gen. Westmoreland’s playbook, while the Iraqi insurgents seem to be following the playbook of Ho Chi Minh. We know the ending of both books.
Books to rock you Republican Mom's vote! (tags)
Before your Mom, brother, or friend votes in November, they really should read one, two, or all of these books, beginning with Mark Crispin Miller's "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order." Tell your family and friends about these books! Buy these books for them! E-mail this list to everyone you know, and print it as a flyer to post in your local cafe or hand out in front of a bookstore. There's enough time before the election for a little good reading to make a big difference.
The Day Philosophy Dies (tags)
“Step One is to recognize that there is a problem.” When a movie star is kidnapped and put through a 12 step recovery program for addiction to Western Civilization, reality gets turned on its ear. The fugitives careen headlong through passion, betrayal, and assassinations toward an explosive event that will transform the world. Everything you know can change in an instant. Are you ready for the next step?
War in Iran and the Draft (tags)
Is the media desensitizing the american public toward the possibility of a draft or a war in Iran?
The sexual sadism of our culture, in peace and in war (tags)
The Abu Ghraib images have all the hallmarks of contemporary porn.
Religious Storm over Script (tags)
An innocent-looking script called "The Presence" by English writer Matthew Horton is at the center of a new religious storm in Hollywood, proving that religion is still one of the most prickly of all subjects when it comes to the big screen.
F911 Movie: Conyers Admits Congress Does Not Read Bills Before Voting (tags)
When you attend Fahrenheit 9/11, I hope you also shout out loud SHAME ON YOU when that good Democrat Rep Conyers admits that the House & Senate do not read most of the bills they vote on, including the fascist Patriot Act, a bill that would make Hitler proud.
As the June 5th peace march approaches, will you be prepared for the "Brownshirts in White"--the pro-war, pro-Bush "Protest Warriors" who tagged along in the March 20 peace marches? On March 20, they carried signs reading "Leave Saddam alone; he only kills his own people" and "Give communism another chance; it's only killed 100 million people so far." What will you do on June 5? Will you talk with these guys? Will you ignore them? (And have you read Thom Hartmann's excellent article about Hitler's reign, entitled "When Democracy Failed"? If not, check out the Common Dreams web page listed at the bottom of this article.) Let's make June 5 a day for peace and a day of peace.
Arlington West Memorial May 30-31 Santa Monica Beach (tags)
There will be over 800 crosses placed in the sand. Each cross represents an American soldier who has died in Iraq. The names, ages, hometowns and circumstances of their deaths are there for all to read on a plaque that is placed in front of this memorial. Another sign indicates that it would take the entire beach in order to recognize all of the Iraqi’s who have been killed in this war. The crosses are not meant to be used as a religious symbol.
BLACKBOX NEWS: READ IF YOU HAVE BEEN THERE!!! (tags)
If you have been to this site the governement is after you. Follow this link to the SF indymedia to read about it from the webmaster.
Sinclair Broadcasting's David Smith Busted In Prostitution Sting (tags)
[THIS IS THE GUY WHO BANNED THE 'NIGHTLINE' BROADCAST OF K.I.A. SOLDIERS IN 8 CITIES LAST NIGHT, AND WROTE A LETTER DEFENDING HIS DECISION TO SEN. JOHN MCCAIN.]
How the history of Mayday and women are being erased.. (tags)
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Encounters with Hugo Chavez (tags)
Solidarity with Venezuela
REVIEW: Where's Feminism? Everywhere and Nowhere (tags)
his world really needs a new feminism, and the editors and contributors are right on to ground feminism in social movements dealing with real life and not just the simulacra of representational politics. But saying that all issues are women’s issues because women are involved or are leaders misses the point.
Collective Action: Histories of Activist Movements (tags)
FROM THE INDYPENDENT: Activists keep reinventing the wheel, but there is a rich history of struggle, victories and failures to learn from. This installment of "The Real Quick Reading List" looks over some of the best histories of the North American left.
Newsweek Misses Tax Freedom Day (tags)
To read Message of Peace and science fiction in: www.literaturadeficcion.com.ar. thank you and until always
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President Chavez dedicates 20 minutes to In Defence of Marxism on TV (tags)
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign
Chavez dedicates 20 minutes to In Defence of Marxism on the TV programme "Alo Preside (tags)
Chavez, the President of Venezuela, does a regular TV programme, Alo Presidente. In the latest one he dedicated twenty minutes to In Defence of Marxism (www.marxist.com). What this demonstrates is that solidarity action with Venezuela is very important and that any action that supporters organise around the world should be reported to In Defence of Marxism. Any action that you carry out will get into the Venezuelan press; the people like to hear about it.
A Legacy of Struggle: The Importance of Knowledge (tags)
The importance of a knowledge of history to understanding the present and to develop an appreciation for the sacrifices and accomplishments of the progressive people who preceded us.
Understanding the Middle East (tags)
If any one person, viewpoint or source had the “straight story” about the Middle East, it would an easy matter to solve all our problems. It is easy to read a biased summary of “talking points” regarding any issue and march off on a crusade, disseminating more biased opinion and rallying followers to the attack.
Palestine was stolen to create Israel, hence the conflict (tags)
Most people don’t understand why the Middle East is plagued by violence. It is because Israel has stolen vast quantities of land and property from the Palestinians beginning in 1948 and continuing today.
Please urge Sen. Feinstein to support Nepal garment bill (tags)
Dear California residents, please take ten minutes to write to Senator Feinstein asking her to support a bill which would help the people of Nepal, who are in dire need due to civil war and poverty.
Corporation as Psychopath (tags)
Management guru, Peter Drucker: "If you find an executive who wants to take on social responsibilities, fire him. Fast." chair of the libertarian Cato Institute, William Niskanen: says that he would not invest in a company that pioneered in corporate responsibility.
a sampling of this week's U.S. military rape headlines.... (tags)
around the world with the Stars and Stripes.... a few of the latest confirmed rapes, alleged rapes, attempted rapes, indecent assault, sodomy, "torture" photos, etc.. in Australia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Okinawa etc.... oh google news searches make it so easy to compile this stuff....
Regarding earlier posts and the need for proof.
Resistance of Consciousness--an Alternative to Increasing Police State (with flyer) (tags)
An alternative still open as the police/war state moves into predictable gear is that we can still use this (the Net) and other tools to get out the word of Resistance Consciousness.
CHERYL SEAL EXCLUSIVE: Sneak Preview of Time Magazine's 'Bush Goes to England' Special ! (tags)
Don't let those anti-Bush folks tell you that all those quaint English villages and villagers used in PR shots were staged! They were ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC! And here's the proof!
Niagara's Toxi-tomic Legacy (tags)
Lou Ricciuti, who co-authored with Geoff Kelly "The Bomb that Fell on Niagara," a series of 12 articles that appeared in Buffalo's ArtVoice, is continuing the saga of Niagara County's atomic legacy beginning today at www.niagarabuzz.com.
The Ignore Author and Read More... Features (tags)
This is a short description of the "ignore author" and "read more..." features.
Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution (tags)
Legitimating prostitution as "work" does not empower the women in prostitution.
Now Available: No Compromise Issue 22! (tags)
Now Available: No Compromise Issue 22!
Silencing is my policy - lieing is my protocol (tags)
There are no Human Rights in a Law State.
Bush's Press Secretary's Pop pops on a former Pres. (tags)
A Texas attorney has just published a new book re LBJ and the JFK assassination. Another book on the 1963 coup is not that unusual. What is is that the author is the father of W. Bush's press secretary, Scott McCllellan.
Double life of the GOP: Corporatists and Conservative-libertarians (tags)
President Bush made his fortune by getting Texas taxpayers to pay for the Texas Rangers's new baseball stadium. His government now expands corporate welfare on the backs of individual taxpayers, while allowing huge tax escapes for large multinational corporations.
A Request for Research Help from the IMC Community (tags)
Members of the Tallahassee-RedHills IMC Collective in Florida are working on several research projects on the Global Indy Media network. Please read this request and if possible….help out.
Media Censorship That Doesn't Speak Its Name (tags)
Reducing journalism to a branch of corporate and government public relations is the hidden agenda of the media deregulators, in Britain and America.
Who the hell is Booz, Allen, and Hamilton ?!? (tags)
A company with strong ties to the atrocity of September 11, 2001 is also implicated in the intense digital harrasment experienced in the past couple of years by anti-war activists.
The nation's attorney general is on the ropes and swinging wildly. (tags)
Once again, Mr. Ashcroft has utterly missed the point. As many commentators have patiently tried to explain to him--we must, after all, talk to him as one talks to a punch-drunk fighter--the point is not whether federal authorities have yet started checking what we read; the point is that the U.S. Patriot Act gives those authorities the right to monitor what we read. Giving anyone that right is exactly what’s wrong, Mr. Ashcroft. If we are hysterics, then you, sir, are a dangerous dimwit.
Could Tony Blair look at the internet now, please? (tags)
Why is the British Prime Minister the only person who seems to be unaware of the US hawks' agenda.
New edition of Frontlines newspaper now online (tags)
The articles from our print edition are now online. We update our page daily.
George Bush Sends A Signal to the Nation (tags)
Want some easy proof of the Bush Administration's pattern of deception and domestic terrorism? Read on... NOTE: This article is placed into the public domain. You may freely quote it, use it, and modify it with no further permission. Feel free to expand upon the research herein.
An Interview with Ernesto Aguilar of the Anarchist People of Color (APOC) (tags)
"....Who were the founders of the APOC? When was it started?"
Julian Simon wrote "Hoodwinking the Nation" in 2000 and was dead a month later, so was Barbara who wrote "Hell To Pay". This is what nasty "Liberals" do to their enemies.
Unemployed? Worried? Read On... (tags)
First, we need to remember how wealth is created. The average high school graduate comes out thinking that if they get more of the money others have, then that's the way to create wealth. They don't have a clue about wealth creation, because in most cases, the schools don't teach it, and most of the kid's parents don't know either -- so herewith is a refresher course.
The Pursuit of Happiness (tags)
Here is an opportunity to use international law to enable the Pursuit of Happiness.
wto in montreal in july (tags)
read montreal and vancouver indymedia. then, send your activists to montreal in july
The Sweet Taste of Death (tags)
Aspartame is also the reason for the epidemic of obesity as its a neurotoxic drug that makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. (See protest of National Soft Drink Association on www.dorway.com). It is also makes the liver so toxic as it embalms you (Trocho Study, l998), that its hard to even lose weight.
Do We Really Have Free Speech? (tags)
The following is a transcript of a speech given by 13-year-old Charlotte Aldebron in Augusta, Maine on April 19, 2003.
Fight For Liberation of Brea Continues (tags)
Peace activist continue spread the word in Brea
Why does the call for peace stir up such hatred?
Conformity and Uniformity is the Collective Way (tags)
From the book "The Coming Aristocracy" by Leonard Read.
Social Systems Are Corrupt (tags)
From the book "The Origin of Social Dysfunction" by E. Allie.
We'll tell you what to think.
Not one penny for the war budget! and other articles at Frontlines (tags)
Visit us often as we update our website daily with news and analysis of interest for antiwar and left wing activists. Traductores al español se buscan.
A blockade's worth of Inspiration from SF! read this article (tags)
Read this great article (from SF Chronicle?) on tactics and efficacy of affinity based group action. This is how to get it done, fer real.
Sex, Lies and Weapons of Mass Distraction (tags)
Tomorrow's Edition of Our Historical Crisis....
Years ago my Father (A Baptist missionary) gave me a valuable key to help me read the motives of people weather they are pastors or perisinors listen to what they condemn the most be it money sex or immorality. The thing that they condemn the most is what they them selves have the greatest problem with.
Bumper stickers aren't enough! (tags)
Anyone with a computer and some tape, go go go.
We'll tell you what to think.
Report- Poems Not Fit For the White House (tags)
report
Important Petition re NION (tags)
Support our troops -- Please act NOW
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys eh? (tags)
I agree with Molly Ivins about once in a Blue Moon. It must be a Blue Moon.
Coup Attempt in Green Party of Utah (tags)
A group of co-conspirators has engineered a coup attempt within the Green Party of Utah.
THOUSANDS protest Rumsfeld in Germany (tags)
Thousands of Germans protest the visit of Donald Rumsfeld.
A look at who reads what. And what that says about them.
Hello, Here’s another letter from Peter Schnell. He’s supposed to be released to a half-way house this spring! Also, a friend of Peters is interested in Spanish language anarchist and other radical literature. See below:
CLIMB ABOARD… PEACE TRAIN a-Come-en… NOW… CIRCLING EARTH (tags)
EARTH CITIZEN ( free to read in 2003 ) GLOBAL COMMUNITY... IDEAS... add yours Ideas to bring PEACE... to all Earth Citizens... living in OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY Writings... News Papers... Books FREE to READ... In 2003... from... www.RogerART.com
Bu$h Family Plutocracy... WHITE HOUSE ... LAWN SALE ... now going on (tags)
also... SEE em on TV... bu$h family gangsters - WAR-drob - GANG COLORS - OIL BLACK SUITS with BLOOD RED TIES... http://www.rogerart.com/Bu$h%20WASH%20ROOM%20777%20pg.htm
LA TO MINN. IMC -ON WELLSTONE- INVESTIGATE, DON'T SPECULATE! (tags)
LA IMC reporter remembers RFK assassination, asks Minnesota IMC to investigate Wellstone's death, not speculate.
THE FALWELL RECORD...
War On Iraq? Ten Years From Now, What Will You Tell Your Children? (tags)
Read only if you have an open mind (and I know I'm going to get you looking even if you don't with this kind of summary ;-) Are we being lied to? Let me walk you through some history. Let me challenge you to look in the mirror and face your (future) children.
elitism in the left or how the left betrayed the people, just like the right (tags)
the difference btween the left elite and the right is just in words. Their actions are the same and have the same result: to exploit the popuklace and other species while NOT walking their talk.
Imagine America without slavery! It is possible!
Police State in Santa Ana!! (tags)
Hundreds of cops in full riot gear in Santa Ana, ready to beat and arrest about ten or so supporters of Matthew Lamont!
EU governments must confront inequalities (tags)
The nature of the European far-right.
Rebuilding the global heroin trade (tags)
Knowing--and perhaps caring--very little about 9/11, the US Government has used the terror attacks as a pretext for regaining control of the heroin industry from the Taliban regime that nearly destroyed it long before 9/11.
RCMP Corruption Cartoon (tags)
cartoon c 2002 by charles amsellem Mountie Fired For Speaking Out
Bush Daddy's Anthrax Flu (tags)
Bush Daddy TRibe has apparently been broadcasting Anthrax in reaction to "Report on Bush Daddy Tribe" Id=151866.
Copyright law proposal will eliminate small, independent & non-commercial webcasters from the internet.
I just purchased the book, Called To Serve, by James "Bo" Gritz. Can any of the wonderfully well read people here at indymedia give me a clue as to whether I should take notes or use it for a papier mache'project?
USA vs. Raise the Fist Search Warrant & Affidavit (tags)
Thanks to Cryptome, you can read the FBI's search warrant and affidavit for the SWAT raid on RaisetheFist.com. Follow the link.
H.R. 2977 Preservation of Space Kucinich Ohio Oct. 2001 look up MInd control in http://www.congress.org Lecture Feb. 2, Controlledamerica.itgo.com
You've been living in a dream world Neo (tags)
Read on read on...learn my friend about the fraud they call America, you have been lie to in a way you can't at this point imagine...
URGENT! "Israel: State of Terror " cartoon serie (read for details) (tags)
Read with attention!!!
The Coming Apocalypse by Geov Parrish -- Please Read This (tags)
This is from a few days ago, but remains one of the most poignant essays I've read since the bombing campaign began. I hope many people read this, and take it to heart.
Who are the Real Terrorists? and When are we Going to Sucessfully Shut them Down (tags)
Years ago a political prisoner meant that someone was falsely incarcerated for crimes they did not commit, rather for their beliefs. Today, that definition has been twisted by reckless individuals seeking to overthrow governments, gain quick fame and deprive the rights of others.
Careful what you read - "Novel Security Measures" (tags)
Philadelphia airline passenger interrogated, hassled, and ultimately not allowed to fly due to "objectionable" books he was reading.
Read "I, Pencil" by Leonard Read
critique of border hack report (tags)
Performance Artist Coco Fusco takes on border hacker boasts
IF WE WANT TO WIN, YOU HAD BETTER READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!! (tags)
IF WE WANT TO WIN, YOU HAD BETTER READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!
Vancouver Stops Water Privatization Scheme (tags)
Read below.
Update From Century City Protest (tags)
200-300 Angelenos gathered outside the Century Park Hotel to greet Dubya with a simple two word request: PRICE CAPS.
Mumia refers to Disabled Citizens asthe Poor, Stupid and SlowDemocracy Now 2/28! (tags)
Read
Electoral Crisis: Read the Iron Heel by Jack London (tags)
Ive said it before, but if this ongoing crisis develops into full scale emergency, you have perhaps a couple of weeks to familiarise yourself with this "textbook" of plutocratic power seizure...
L.A. Times' Coverage of the MTA strike (tags)
A letter adressing the LA times' one-sided coverage of the current MTA strike.
Read Chief Parks' Account of Monday's Police Riot (tags)
LAPD Chief Bernard Parks's own words about the violence his men incited on Monday night.