May 2017 Honduras coup update (tags)
20 uni students occupied an uni admin building in solidarity with 3 other arrested students, they all got repressed and arrested as did a journalist who answered their call to accompany them and cover what was happening, who was also beaten and tortured by security guards and then by police. A journalist who covers local corruption and gives coverage to local protests against a hydroelectricity dam received a chain of threats, to add onto old threats and aggressions. And, as usual council officials, who illegally sold ancestral land of a Garífuna community gets away with it, while an community activist gets arrested and charged for usurping their own ancestral land. A cameraperson for a media outlet has 6 gunshots fired at his body on his way home from work and is gravely injured. This and other abuses, happened in May 2017 in Honduras, read here https://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/
Netanyahu Says He'll "Live Forever by the Sword" (tags)
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Ukraine
clips from a blog post about an underfunded teacher beat out a well funded up-and-coming politician
Israeli Torture: Accountability Denied (tags)
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Israeli Political Prisoner Khader Adnan Near Death (tags)
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Phoenix Police Sgt. Sean Drenth a suicide (tags)
Sgt. Sean Drenth was about to be indited for screwing the Phoenix Police Department out of thousands of dollars in overtime, but he committed suicide, probably so his wife could collect his pension.
Israel's Lawless Arrest of Ahmad (tags)
repression
Through the Eyes of the Fans (tags)
Book and Documentary Project Provides Unique Perspective of Michael Jackson.
Erlinder released as Kagame cracks down on his own (tags)
As U.S. Law Professor Peter Erlinder was released, after three weeks incarceration in Rwanda, Kagame cracked down hard on his own. Rwandan Umuvugizi journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage was assassinated in Kigali Rwanda on June 24, 2010, after publishing a report that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had ordered the attempted assassination of General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa.
Reverend Rick Warren on Trial, in the Court of Public Opinion (tags)
Rev. Rick Warren, the best known advocate of California's Proposition 8 gay marriage ban, has staked his reputation as an international humanitarian on his alliance with Kagame, and on his Rwandan and Ugandan HIV/AIDS ministries, which are infamous for hijacking PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, in service to his abstinence-only-until-heterosexual-married -monogamy-for-life agenda. And now Kagame has been sued, in an Oklahoma Court, for guilt in the Rwanda Genocide and the Congo War, which have together cost 7 million African lives.
Judge Suppresses Testimony by Fr. Boyle, Denies Bail to Alex Sanchez (tags)
US Judge Manuel Real denied Father Gregory Boyle, nationally-known for his gang prevention work, the opportunity to testify as an expert defense witness for Alex Sanchez on Monday, then promptly denied Sanchez bail while reading from prepared notes.
Nader People Proven Right Again (tags)
Local Nader supporters argued Obama would retreat on his promises while Los Angeles Progressive Democrats, names omitted, assured us that Obama wouldn't do that. The Nader people failed to predict that he would do so before inauguration.
Local Soldier, Lawrance J. Carter, Killed in Iraq (tags)
Lawrance J. Carter was killed Dec. 29 when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in the northwestern section of Baghdad, Iraq. He had been in the Army for five-and-a-half years and was on his fourth tour of duty.
srael Tunes Out: Denies entrance to piano tuner from California (tags)
Paul Larudee, PHd, a piano tuner from California, was denied entry to Israel based on his political support for Palestinian liberation.
Bush calls domestic problems "background noise" (tags)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, hit by a series of domestic woes that have eroded his popularity, said on Thursday he was focused on his job and not on what he called "some background noise."
W's political capital nosedived in Katrina speech (tags)
Boy George claimed political capital (with a mere 2% margin even after the disputed 2004 election) & vowed to use it. But after his debacle of a 'speech' on his handling of Katrina, W should commit suicide.
Michael Moore's Axis of Elvis will put your protest photos on his website (tags)
Michael Moore's assignment to you for the weekend: Dress up like Elvis, protest the war, send him pictures with "AXIS OF ELVIS" in the subject line mike@michaelmoore.com
News Media in "lock-down" to Stop TV Coverage of Problems with Nov. 2nd Voting (tags)
On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at CBS - I've known her for years and she is a Producer for some of the news programs, one well known one in particular. She tipped me off that the news media is in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd. She said similar "lock-down orders" had come down last year after the invasion of Iraq, but this is far worse - far scarier.
How three of the nation's top newspapers killed a big Bulgegate scoop (tags)
When a top NASA research scientist offered three of the country’s top newspapers the enhanced photographs he’d worked on of the Bush debates, showing how Bush lied, they all took a dive—even that once great hero of the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward, now assistant managing editor of the Washington Post
Jesse Jackson thinks we deserve and explanation for the bulge- what is wrong with Kerry? (tags)
Does anyone think that if the situation were reversed that the Bush camp would let this go?
Kerry campaign shakeup 3 staffers walk the plank (tags)
John Forbes Heinz Kerry's inability to stand for anything and lackluster efforts, while snowboarding and windsurfing have created this mess. Howard Dean we miss you!!!!
Kerry the War Hero is a Loser; Kerry the War Resister Would be a Winner (tags)
As long as Kerry has to defend his war record, he will be battered by Bush and right-wing Viet Vets. Only if he embraces his years as a war resister and joins the majority of Americans in opposing the current war can he hope to recover and win in November.
Questioning a War Time President (tags)
The Lyndon Johnson factor.....
Saddam spit at his captors! (tags)
Let's see now. The Kurds captured Saddam, drugged him and left him in a hole to be found by the U.S. Army. Saddam spit on his captures when dragged from that hole and a G.I. then punched him. What makes me think I'm NEVER going to hear any of this on the nightly news?
Say no to the California recall and Schwarzenegger the Liar (tags)
Schwarzenegger said in his announcement on Jay Leno’s show that he would not accept special interest money and would be beholden to no one but “the people.” Then he turned around and raised millions from special business interests for his campaign, including from at least one company that violated environmental laws. He is just another lying, hypocritical Republican.
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM BELIEFS TAKE GRAPHIC NOTE ON JAZZ MUSICIAN JON HARTMANN'S CDs (tags)
The Los Angeles resident and activist on Arco’s “Citizens Advisory Committee for Rapid Transit” since 1972, is letting his music releases bring ‘more than meets the eye’ to his album covers further elaborating on his environmental beliefs as an activist and musical artist.
Poll Question: Are 'Anti-War Protesters' and 'Saddam Supporters' one and the same? (tags)
Anti War Protester = Saddam Supporter?
Copied from the AP newswire. Just says that he's going to be send back to LA, and that he was denied bail because the judge thinks he would not comply with his order. Tipograph, his lawyer, let out that this is a freedom of speech issue.
Fat Man -- Cropped Foto (tags)
He's Not Resting on his Laurels -- Photojournalist Boyd Lewis captured Lionel Rolfe, author of the revised and enlarged third edition of the classic Literary L.A., expounding on his forthcomingbook. A publication party is scheduled Sunday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m. at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Contact: (323) 906-0262; email: calclass@earthlink.net. (Photo copyright 2001 Boyd Lewis)
The Fat Man Returns: Lionel Rolfe (tags)
He's Not Resting on his Laurels -- Photojournalist Boyd Lewis captured Lionel Rolfe, author of the revised and enlarged third edition of the classic Literary L.A., expounding on his forthcomingbook. A publication party is scheduled Sunday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m. at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Contact: (323) 906-0262; email: calclass@earthlink.net. (Photo copyright 2001 Boyd Lewis)
President Bush fainted briefly
George W. already had blood on his hands before he was INSTALLED-Over 160(as I recall-anyone have the EXACT figures?) executed in Texas by this nazi-istic thug. Now he's bombing Afganistan-how many thousands dead already?