Maverick Media ~ by Greg Guma The US is at the dawn of “a new era in police surveillance,” the Associated Press revealed casually last week. In a Chicago-based story about the growing use of drones and other sophisticated, unmanned aircraft for aerial surveillance, it noted that the Congressional Research Service considers their future use…
William Boardman As of April 11, ExxonMobil is still working to control all news from the Mayflower tar sands oil spill. Independent reporting is difficult if not impossible. The first “Tar Sands Oil Arkansas” [1](on April 7)[1] discussed a number of questions raised by the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline that burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, on March…
The Committee to Support Avelino and Norberto González Claudio, The Caribbean and Latin American Coordinating Committee of Puerto Rico, The Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico, The Resistance Collective, The Socialist Front, The New School, The Movement for Socialism, The National Hostosiano Independence Movment, The Socialist Movement of Workers, The Puerto Rican Independence Party of Puerto Rico, The Nationalist…
Alaska Congressman Don Young (R-AK) referred to Mexican farm workers as “wetbacks.” in a recent radio interview on KRBD-FM (Ketchikan, AK), Young was attempting to make a point about the automation in farm production, when he said this: “My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. It takes two people…
Originally posted on The Diary of my Insomnia:
Sometimes i feel grateful for the retweets that reach my end. Everybody knows I am the last to post the latest news,I usually dig into past events. But from a retweet of a retweet,this link arrived at my Twitter,I watched it and,honestly,was left speechless. I knew,of course…
Skouries: an ancient forest is Greece’s latest battle-ground hashtag #skouries 25 March 2013 – By Theodora Oikonomides and Zoe Mavroudi Skouries is the most important Greek story you’ll rarely hear about. It’s an ancient forest in northern Greece, where a mammoth Canadian gold-mining company is staking its claim. Gold-mining, environmental concerns, state repression, police violence and a…
Invisible Legions: The Pope and International Relations On 13 March 2013, just a bit more than one month after the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected the former Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope; he named himself Francis. While the election of…
Guatemala City (CNN) — The soldiers killed Jacinto Lopez’s teenage daughter Magdalena by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck. Then they shot and killed his sons, 13-year-old Domingo and 10-year-old Pedro. His in-laws were not spared. Barely anyone in the village was. These atrocities, which took place in the remote Guatemalan town of Santa Maria…
Originally posted on The Free:
many commit suicide when eviction day arrives ‘Escrache’ in Spanish means a demo at the home of a corrupt person in power. In recent weeks a wave of such demos has spread round Spain, protesting aginst politicians rejection of the proposed popular law to stop mortgage evictions (now running at…
Dogma and Geopolitics 