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Civil Liberties Route 666: Feds Out of Control, Tracking Your Movement on the Interstate. by Jay Stanley
DEA Recording Americans’ Movements on Highways, Creating Central Repository of Plate Data . By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, ACLU The DEA wants to capture the license…
Business We Told You So. by James K. Galbraith
The following piece first appeared in Issue 19 of The Baffler and is reprinted with permission. Like many Americans, I was doing everything I could to help elect Barack Obama. It wasn’t all that much—but…
African-American Disco Queen and Go-Go King are Gone. by Eugene Robinson
The soundtrack of my youth is fading. That’s hardly an original observation, I realize, but self-indulgence is a columnist’s inalienable right and music has unique power to summon unbidden waves of nostalgia. I’ll spend the…
Business Obama’s Statement on Gay Marriage and the Calculus Behind it
Gay Marriage Effort Attracts a Novel Group of Donors By ADAM NAGOURNEY and BROOKS BARNES The New York Times LOS ANGELES — On a warm Friday afternoon three years ago, Rob Reiner, the director,…
American culture The 11 Nations of the United States. by Colin Woodward
In 2008, with the U.S. divided between red states and blue states, then-candidate Barack Obama called for unity over division, a common shout-out among politicians and others determined to preserve America’s under- siege, allegedly…
Civil Liberties Strategy to Make OWS Permanent; Reshape Washington in the Months Ahead
The following is an HPUB editorial. The protesters at OWS may be young but they are savvy. They understand, and the election of 2008 makes it glaringly obvious, that the actual power in…
Editor's Desk More on OWS Winning Strategy
Consensus decision making Geographic Decentralization. Not many people in any one location. No hieararchy or bureaucracy. A coup de tat requires a bureaucratic hierarchy. To sieze control, all you need to do get the bureaucracy…
Civil Liberties A Strategy Primer for Occupy Wall Street
People Start to Wake Up from a Long Slumber (video) ======================================================================================= The following is part three of our new series for OWS on strategy. The author(s) are anonymous except for those who choose to identify themselves…
Civil Liberties OWS. Tactics to Hold on to Gains; How to Deal with Bloomberg
Part of our ongoing series on the art of war. In previous articles we reviewed some broad strategy concepts and offered a few specific suggestions to create wins for the movement. Now I would like…
US Politics We Need a New Political System in the U.S. Exhibit A.
Obama Backers Tied to Lobbies Raise Millions By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry…
Editor's Desk Memo from the American People to Obama and Sarkozy: We Too are Sick and Tired of Netanyahu
Shameful treatment and abuse by Israel of Americans and Europeans who dare to take medical supplies to Gaza. Totally unacceptable response from US embassy, says it is powerless to help US citizens detained by Israel….
Civil Liberties Non-Violence Protects the 1%. By Peter Gelderloos
How Nonviolence Protects The State excerpt: Some pacifists will point out the huge number of “conscientious objectors” who refused to fight, to salvage some semblance of a nonviolent victory. But it should be obvious…
Civil Liberties Insane Drug War Gone Raving Mad
U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels By GINGER THOMPSON WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s…
Business Who is Profiting from the Greek Crisis
U.S. Firms See Opportunities in Europe’s Woes By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ As Europe struggles with its debt crisis, American businesses and financial firms are swooping in amid the distress, making loans and snapping…
Editor's Desk Obama Resists Total Israeli Control on War and Peace
IRAN Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (IPS) – President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over Netanyahu’s aim…
US Politics The Sheer Stupidity of the Presidential Debates
Klein: Economists Scoff at Obama, Romney Myths Mitt Romney’s campaign would have you believe that every job lost over the past three years is President Barack Obama’s fault. That includes the 820,000 jobs lost in…
Editor's Desk Why I Occupy
Pushed Out of Our Homes and into the street David Kempa I am a 27-year-old journalist living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Journalists, as a rule, do not readily identify themselves with organizations…
US Politics Understanding by Design
On January 30, the Pew Research Center in partnership with The Washington Post, found that far more voters say Barack Obama understands the problems of average Americans than those who say the same about either…
Civil Liberties The American Military Coup of 2012 by Charles J. Dunlap, U.S.A.F.
he Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR. From Parameters, Winter 1992-93, pp. 2-20. Go to Cumulative Article Index. The letter that follows takes us on a…
Editor's Desk WIKILEAKS CUBA CABLES. The state of medical care
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Civil Liberties Final Curtain Call. By Tom Burghardt
Over the decades, the maintenance of power and class privileges by corporate, financial and political elites have relied on covert and overt forms of violence, oftentimes in unspoken arrangements with transnational criminal networks (the global…
Civil Liberties The Abuse of Filmaker Laura Poitras. By Glenn Greenwald
U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border By Glenn Greenwald One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too…
Geopolitics The Apocalypse Around the Corner
Global Research Editor’s Note This detailed report by our Contributor Washington Blog must be read very carefully. The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the…
Geopolitics Disconnect From the Matrix. by Paul Craig Roberts
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as…
Civil Liberties Police State at Airports. by Paul Joseph Watson
by Paul Joseph Watson Wheelchair-bound 95-year-old veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate them from…
US Politics May Day 2012 by Shaun Harkin
By Shaun Harkin April 27, 2012 On May 1, workers across the globe will demonstrate, attend meetings and go on strike in celebration of International Workers Day, a working-class holiday with origins in the U.S….
Civil Liberties The Knock on the Door: NYC Cops Intimidating Americans for their Political Beliefs
New York Times: Accusations That Police Tried to Spy on Wall St. Protesters By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Published: May 2, 2012 On Monday, the New York Police Department sent its warrant squads after an unusual set…
African-American I Am From. by T.C. Heard
Many places Many people The world is viewed as big Yet ‘tis so small Small enough to trace your roots Back to your ancestors Through tall tales, stories, poetry, food and music But most of…
African-American The Continuing Killing of Trayvon Martin
Eighteen. That’s how many black people are murdered per day in America.. If you don’t have the misfortune to live near one of those eighteen, you didn’t hear about any of them. There are nearly…
Business Energy Wars Heat Up. by Michael T. Klare
By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch This piece originally appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction here. Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major…
Business Why China won’t own the World anytime soon
‘They’re a one-party communist State and you actually believe their figures. Are you nuts?’ Now, God knows (if he, she or it exists), I’m not an economist. Anybody looking at my personal accounts would…
Geopolitics The Winds of Change. by P.N. Bernfeld
Are they a fully blown hurricane of a mere zephyr? I decide to remain, metaphorically speaking, in the Middle East for this article because although interesting events are unfolding in Europe, it’s still…
Geopolitics Mexican Presidential Election and Candidate Enrique Peña Nieto
It started out as a routine capaign act to promote himself at the highly prestigious Iberoamerican University, what Enrique Peña Nieto failed to forsee was that it turned out to be the start of what…
Business Dog bites man. Or did it? by P.N. Bernfeld
Every journalist knows that ‘dog bites man’ is not a story whereas ‘man bites dog’ makes a great one. I was reminded of this when reading about the banking crisis in Spain, and that in…
American culture When you’re Down and Out
Life sure is something! When you got it…you are the greatest thing in this whole “Wide World of Influence”; you’re smart, handsome, a debonair man about town…how to make friends and influence people type of…
Geopolitics Iran part two
Will they or won’t they? If you haven’t got around to reading the IAEA fifteen page report, I think it’s fair to summarise it as; smoking gun not found, but there was a…
African-American Pasadena Cops Shoot Teenager Seven Times Then Cuff Him and Watch Him Die. By Abena Agyeman-Fisher
Nearly two months ago, NewsOne reported on the tragic case of Kendrec McDade (pictured), the California college student and football star who was killed by Pasadena cops while they were responding to…
Healthcare Listen to the Birds
It’s Saturday morning. I awoke in the usual manner, with a dry mouth needing water, pain in my shoulders from nagging bursitis, and my doggie doing her “I need to go outside” dance. This is…
Geopolitics Iran part one
Are they or aren’t they? Will they or won’t they? Before I answer my own questions, it might be as well to give a necessarily brief overview of the Iranian Government structure. Most people…
US Politics Descision Time: Progression vs. Regression
On Monday, April 26, 2010, I was talking to a friend about American Politics, and wrote the following: “The Conservative movement, is genuinely scared, because, from the beginning of time, the greatest evil to the…
African-American Ping Pong by T.C. Heard
If it hasn’t been one thing, it’s another. One thing right after the other, Looking beneath the surface, I don’t think I’ll ever be the same girl No, I’m not the same girl we all knew …
Geopolitics Bin Laden and the American Mind Osama, Dead and Alive. by Tom Engelhardt
May 5, 2011, bin Laden was killed this week By TOM ENGELHARDT Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory…
American culture Selling the Revolution. by Allan Goldstein
Good morning, progressives. I want to thank you for coming to this seminar. I’ve done an analysis of your business and I’m afraid the numbers don’t look good. That’s the bad news. The good news…
Editor's Desk American Conspiracies. By Daniel Bruno
American Conspiracies by Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell, Hardback, 228 pp. Skyhorse Publishing $24.95 ISBN 978-1-60239-802-3 “I’ve not written this book because I get off on talking about conspiracies. I’ve written it because, until we…
American culture Women and DADT… Spoiling War for the Men! by Andrew
Deep in their bellies, men know, in the absence of force, women are clearly in charge. Men know, humans are not predisposed to instinctively, automatically, impulsively, and with undomesticated depravity, rush into each others arms…
Media Respect Dont Pay the Rent. by Tom Hodgkinson
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, as my mother never tires of reminding me, journalism was a very well-paid job. My parents started with nothing and ended up with boys at private school, a…
Science Seem Warmer Than Normal? Its Not Your Imagination.
Humans Cause Global Warming: 10 Indicators The science is firm that global warming is happening. Even so-called “climate skeptics” are realizing this. We have discussed many times on Planetsave how humans cause global warming and…
Business Black Swans. by Daniel Bruno
Robustness and Fragility, A Lecture by Dr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre Said Business School University of Oxford July 14, 2010 Commentary by Daniel Bruno He starts the sold-out presentation with a…
