In 2012, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Center published a manual for U.S. officials advising them on how to shape Okinawan public opinion about the large U.S. military presence on their island. Categorized For Official Use Only, the 60-page CIA report is titled A Master Narratives Approach to Understanding Base Politics in Okinawa. It was released under the U.S. … [Read more...] about CIA: How to shape Okinawan public opinion on the U.S. military presence (by Jon Mitchell)
Social Justice/社会正義
Palestinian Solidarity Poem. Rafeef Ziadah: “We Teach Life, Sir!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8WwB9tvBWM Jewish Voice for PeaceToday, my body was a TV'd massacre. Today, my body was a TV'd massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Today, my body was a TV'd massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response. And I perfected my English and I learned … [Read more...] about Palestinian Solidarity Poem. Rafeef Ziadah: “We Teach Life, Sir!”
Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people
Editor's note: This article appeared first in the October 2017 issue of the New Statesmen. Some people object to the term "homeless" for a variety of reasons, among them being that it falsely categorizes people into types. As a result, even some who claim to want to help those without a roof over their heads tend to look down on them or do not realize that homelessness is a … [Read more...] about Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people
Jimmy Kimmel, Las Vegas, and How the Wars Come Home
I just finished watching Jimmy Kimmel’s video where he addresses the recent shooting in Las Vegas. It’s easy to see that shootings across the country have affected him dearly and even myself, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Jimmy went on to talk about other shootings, debates on gun issues, and made some really significant points. But Jimmy missed one point that … [Read more...] about Jimmy Kimmel, Las Vegas, and How the Wars Come Home
Catalonia: Mass resistance greets Spanish state coups (Dick Nichols 23/9/2017 Green Left Weekly )
Forty-one Spanish Civil Guard raids on Catalan government-related buildings and private homes on September 20 led to the arrest of 13 high-level Catalan government officials and harvested a lot of “suspect material” for the prosecutors charged with stopping Catalonia’s October 1 independence referendum. However, the raid have provoked a mass revolt in response.The haul … [Read more...] about Catalonia: Mass resistance greets Spanish state coups (Dick Nichols 23/9/2017 Green Left Weekly )