Memorial Day for Steelworkers
Courtesy of the Bread & Roses Labor Memorial Committee:“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”― George Orwell The Memorial Day...
View ArticleVideo diary: Turkish pop culture and the Uprising
Just a video from a Turkish video artist that was passed around in my local Occupy group:
View ArticleVideo Diary: Turkish Pop Culture and the Uprising (II)
Put up a Turkey video diary a week ago, here's another that came through my FB connections earlier today. Here we see Turkish young people in one of those overlooked moments in an uprising when...
View ArticleSyria: Kurdish leader says Assad NOT to blame for gas
A decade ago, many Americans chose to be fooled by the Lying Squad of Bush, Cheney, and Powell, into rallying 'round for Operation Iraq Liberation. Mission Accomplished! The facts were there, the...
View ArticleWhat I want to know is...
What's with the fricking rush to war? Did the Kaiser and von Moltke request it? Maybe Clemenceau?Syria will still be there in a month or two, and so will its civil war. Our "pro-western" heroes in...
View ArticleThe Single Bullet Theory
They say those of us who question the Warren Commission official finding that OSWALD ACTED ALONE are crazy, creepy Conspiracy Theorists. They say it's CT, because "extreordinary claims require...
View ArticleSych a liberation hero
The Kyiv Post has published a rundown of the initial appointments to the new government of Ukraine. My sources had been very insistent that the great "revolution" was deeply penetrated by...
View ArticleAmerica's Largest Street Gang
I'm sure very few of you have seen this video. It's pretty chilling. It's about 56 minutes long. In the context of recent events, it makes eminently clear that there are not coincidences or "bad...
View ArticleLearning the wrong lessons?
In the wake of the Michael Brown killing, many are pointing to the "militarization" of the police as the problem. That the distribution of military-grade goods to local police departments as part of...
View ArticleTotally DIY: 242 Main St., Burlington
It's not a famous venue, but unless you live somewhere like New York or San Francisco, it's like the best of the all-ages youth centers in your area. And it has successfully hosted "name acts" such as...
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