December 2011
71 posts
New York Times: Economic Downturn Magically Spares... →
cultureofresistance:
occupyonline:
The number of Capitol Hill millionaires has grown in recent years to include nearly half of all members of Congress - 250 in all - and the wealth gap between lawmakers and their constituents appears to be growing quickly, even as Congress debates unemployment benefits, possible cuts in food stamps and a “millionaire’s tax.”
Representative Ed Pastor buys a...
“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via cultureofresistance)
Ignoring Decades of Science, FDA Drops Plan to... →
onearth:
The Food and Drug Administration has done everything in its power to prevent you from reading this post.
Just before the holidays, the agency charged with protecting Americans’ health reneged on a 35-year-old pledge to order farmers to stop feeding low levels of antibiotics to healthy livestock. These antibiotics have little to do with curing disease. They’re used mainly to increase...
Tearful DPRK bids final farewell to Kim Jong Il →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
PYONGYANG, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — On a gray, snowy Wednesday, tens of thousands of weeping Koreans bade a final farewell to the nation’s late leader Kim Jong Il.
“Fatherly General, don’t go please!” “Don’t leave us behind alone, please!” citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sobbed as a limousine carrying a huge portrait of a smiling Kim passed by.
The...
The counter-revolution and women- The Arabist →
matryoshhka:
The ugliness and ridiculousness of the army and their defenders’ arguments this week has been hard to countenance.
Much of the debate has centered on the shocking image of the young woman dragged, half undressed and mercilessly beaten in the street by soldiers. The denial, misogyny and hostility on display has been in direct proportion to the impossibility of defending this...
No justice for Bradley Manning | Al Jazeera →
modernmalaise:
absinthedisco:
Washington, DC - Private Bradley Manning was just 22 years old when he allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of US State Department cables and video evidence of war crimes to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. For that act of courage that revealed to the world the true face of the American empire, he faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in...
Egypt presidential hopeful Bothaina Kamel turns... →
otential Egyptian presidential nominee Bothaina Kamel turned down the nomination of the world’s bravest woman award, presented by the American government.
Kamel said her name was added to the list of candidates for the International Women of Courage award, but refused to be nominated.
The award celebrates women’s achievements and bravery.
“The International Women of Courage come from all...
“If President Obama signs this bill, it will damage both his legacy and...”
– Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office in a statement released yesterday
It’s pretty bad that our government in 2011 is reacting to an attack over 10 years ago to a degree that was deemed excessive even during the McCarthy era.
That bill, of course, was the 1950...
Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in... →
fearandwar:
One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.
“I mean, whether it’s a result of our action or other action, you know, discovering 20 bodies, throats slit, 20 bodies, you know, beheaded, 20...
Blackwater wants Shari'a law applicable to case in... →
mohandasgandhi:
The case stems from an incident that occurred on November 27, 2004, in which the pilots of Blackwater Flight 61, carrying three US soldiers, decided to divert from their scheduled course on a transport flight through Afghanistan because…they were bored and wanted to pretend they were piloting an X-Wing down the trench of the Death Star or something. At any rate, their mistake...
