Pope Francis says atheists can be good
Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which [...]
Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule but such things barely move him, for as he saunters down the high street there are people to talk to, and no one can leave shortchanged. Everyone, “brother” or “sister”, is indeed treated [...]
Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country — Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and [...]
In what The Guardian‘s correspondent Ed Pilkington describes as a “bombshell” revelation, Bradley Manning on Thursday revealed that prior to reaching out to Wikileaks with a trove of government and military documents, the whistleblower first contacted more established media outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, but was brushed off by editors. As [...]
Occupy Movement Files Lawsuit Against Every Federal Regulator of Wall Street
March 2, 2013 No Comment
In several respects, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the feminist movement. Corporate funded media has declared the women’s rights movement dead ad nauseam for four decades — and yet it thrives and reinvents itself. Similarly, corporate funded media has eulogized Occupy Wall Street from almost the moment of its nascent birth in the Fall [...]
Princeton professor Cornel West says President Obama is a “war criminal.” West, the prominent black academic and activist who has consistently been a harsh Obama critic, took issue with the White House’s covert drone program, saying that “the chickens are coming home to roost.” “We’ve been talking about this for a good while, the immorality [...]
Firebrand black activist Dr. Cornel West gave a speech at the Tavis Smiley Presents Poverty In America series on Thursday that may surprise libertarians – in how much they agree with the “socialist radical.” Decrying the erosion of civil liberties today, Dr. West loudly lamented the “crypto-fascist” state developing in America – contrasting the federal government to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration confirms that it is getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers. Right now the TSA uses two types of scanners. One makes a generic image showing where agents should look for an object on the traveler’s body. Those scanners are staying. The [...]
In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Here are 14 Ways to Fight Back Against the “Intellectual Property” Racket
January 13, 2013 No Comment
In your standard dictatorship, activists are brought out back and shot. In the United States’ crypto-dictatorship, activists are bullied by the state until they go bankrupt, are buried under a mountain of legal woes, are publicly discredited or humiliated, or as in the case of activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, made to crack under [...]
Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013: a computer hacker who is now a political martyr
January 12, 2013 No Comment
“Aaron Swartz’s death is a loss for all humanity,” Jacob Applebaum, a distinguished hacker, said by email to me today. He was a “Web genius,” wrote Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard Law School professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. But just after Swartz died, on Friday, Lessig had [...]
Chris Hedges: New Documents on Activist Surveillance May Be “Just the Tip of the Iceberg”
January 11, 2013 No Comment
Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being [...]
What started as a murmur in early October from First Nations People in Canada in response to Bill C45 has become a movement that echoes the sentiments of people all over the world, a battle cry of love for the planet, “Idle No More.” At first glance it might appear that this movement is isolated [...]
A friend recently posted a lovely image on Facebook. In sum, it said “2011 was the year of transformation, 2012 was the year of culmination, and 2013 will be the year of upliftment.” I couldn’t help but realize that this summary parallels the growth, change, and struggles of the Occupy Wall Street movement quite nicely. [...]
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has approved a controversial “9/11 truther” group’s application to adopt a highway. The St. Louis 9/11 Questions Meetup Group, which suggests the U.S. government may have been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, will have a sign erected with [...]
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday it had downed the websites of dozens of Israeli state agencies and a top bank in protest over the Jewish state’s deadly air assault on Gaza. The hackers said their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions [...]
