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Julian Assange's US lawyer Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights notes the irony of seeking asylum in Ecuador because he fears prosecution by a country whose laws are respected for giving asylum to people like Assange. He says, "the US has demonstrated its commitment to be a safe haven for those being persecuted for their political beliefs by recognising that journalists punished...
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Click to read, with links on Fukushima, Okinawa, Homelessness, N. Korea and more...All these stories are from our links at the bottom of the main page. We will shortly resume publishing our own summaries.JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 1-Japanese Expert Says Fukushima II (not I) Nuke Plant's Containment Vessel Has Been Damaged by the Quake-Fuku-I Nuke Plant Blowout Panel Mystery: Were They Really Welded-...
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Disability Rights Activists Are Even Invisible Getting Arrested on Capitol HillPosted by Janine Jackson on 05/06/11 at 4:13 pmElite media?s selective disdain for public activism is well known. Still, you?d think some things would garner a word or two. Like 300 disability rights activists, a couple hundred in wheelchairs, occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C...
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TOKYOPROGRESSIVE REFUSES COOPERATION WITH PAYPAL AND AMAZON --OUR BOOKSHOP IS CLOSED-- Amazon, Paypal, Visa, the Swiss Post Office and other institutions have blocked the accounts of Wikileaks or taken down their servers. Accordingly, we refuse to cooperate with them and TokyoProgressive is not taking donations until such time as they reverse their decisions. Although our major expense...
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Paul Jay of the Real News Network talks about how the Canadian as well as US media gives the war machine in Afghanistan and Iraq carte blance and keeps people in the dark. At the same, this allows a kind of tyranny to take root with a society that still tends to believe it is free. The background is the reason for creating the Real News Network, to give people an alternative to news manufacturerd...
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The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to World War III The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III." [Read...
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Chair Shii Kazuo's speech at JCP's 87th anniversay Marx is Alive and Well interview with Fuwa Tetsuzo Public Assembly Commemorating JCP 86th Anniversary July 22, 2008 Those Who Stand for Social Justice and Reason Will Prevail in the Future Speech by SHII Kasuo, JCP Executive Committee Chair How Should Japan Fulfill Its International Responsibility to Combat Global...
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Media Advisory 10/8/10 This week, as the Afghan War entered its 10th year, there were the usual retrospectives in the media, as well as calls to rethink the war. What's striking, though, is how little thinking media did about the war in the first place. --Some pundits were calling for indiscriminate attacks before the Afghanistan War even started, as FAIR noted (9/21/01): Fox News...
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Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State 2010-09-17 - SACOM | Development| Global south | Human rights | Labour| Youth| Abstract A startling 13 young workers attempted or committed suicide at the two Foxconn production facilities in southern China between January and...
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You know the scene. At gatherings of the world's elites, mostly nonviolent protests against war, against globalization marginalizing more and more people suddenly turn violent. While there are some on the left who do not exclude damage to property, even the most militant know that the police provoke violence in order to frighten away all protesters. And so most miiltant activists are...
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REYKJAVIK — Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday.Iceland is becoming an offshore safe haven for information, an insider with whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Friday.Iceland's parliament, the Altingi, voted Tuesday to task government with finding ways to increase information freedom and to provide stronger...
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This is a spoof NY TIMES from The Yes Men!Log InContact Us Home PageMy TimesToday's PaperVideoMost PopularTimes Topics Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Last Update: 8:42 AM ET Today's Paper | Video Get Home Delivery | Looking up 72°F World U.S. Politics Civic Life The Economy Infrastructure N.Y. / Region Business Technology Sports Science Health Opinion Editorial Letters Education VideoToday'...
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by Michael Bronski "Oh my God. This was not an easy film to make. First off, I have to thank Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg and all the real-life people who shared their stories with me.... When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me...
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