That Which Is Seen -- may I unerringly consider All to be imbued with Divine Presence
Justice for Lynne Stewart Link lynnestewart.org Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attack1 feedback » •"The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee has a speakers bureau made up of attorneys and activists able to speak at an event in your area."
Mailing Address:
The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
350 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10013Permalink
Haiti - medialens.org Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •"Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished. Why 1 in every 10,000 Haitians has access to a doctor. (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/haiti/intro.htm)"
Alice Walker, Gaza Categories: Uncategorized, People under attack Send feedback » •
Oakland CA Resident Tristan Anderson Critically Injured by IDF Tear Gas Canister in Ni'lin Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •Tristan Anderson Critically Injured in Demonstration Against Israeli Wall
He was reportedly hit in the head with an Israeli military tear gas canister
Om
Trial Begins - Churchill vs. University of Colorado Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •March 9-27, 2009: Churchill v. University of Colorado scheduled for trial in Denver State Court.
Noam Chomsky, Video: The U.S. - Israel's Godfather Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •See chomsky.info
Here is another relevant and recent video featuring Professor Chomsky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqgVHn7TiQ
The full video of this event (the second video) held at the MIT Center for International Studies on January 13, 2009, is out there on YouTube and is also archived at the MIT site -- linked from http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_011309_chomsky.html and from http://web.mit.edu/cis/starr.html
On other topics, there are privacy issues when embedding videos that place cookies on computersBut those Bill Hicks videos I linked to last year are so funny!
I am using Gnash to play these videos. You should try it. http://getgnash.org
Gnash is a high priority project of the Free Software Foundation, and needs your support:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html
Medical Marijuana: DEA Hits California Dispensary in First Raid of Obama Administration -- New President [had] promised End to Raids Categories: People under attack, Drugs
This, as with many other things, is not going as Obama promised.
According another article on stopthedrugwar.org , Obama's whitehouse dot gov agenda also does not mention " a word about the nation's most widely used illicit drug or the nearly 900,000 [US!!] arrests a year generated by marijuana prohibition"
Chomsky article: "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 Categories: U.S. Foreign Policy, People under attackSend feedback » •"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
January, 20 2009
By Noam Chomsky
On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which was considered to be poorly planned and badly advertised. We may, therefore, be fairly confident that most of what has been done and said was pre-planned and intended.
That surely includes the timing of the assault: shortly before noon, when children were returning from school and crowds were milling in the streets of densely populated Gaza City. It took only a few minutes to kill over 225 people and wound 700, an auspicious opening to the mass slaughter of defenseless civilians trapped in a tiny cage with nowhere to flee.
In his retrospective "Parsing Gains of Gaza War," New York Times correspondent Ethan Bronner cited this achievement as one of the most significant of the gains. Israel calculated that it would be advantageous to appear to "go crazy," causing vastly disproportionate terror, a doctrine that traces back to the 1950s. "The Palestinians in Gaza got the message on the first day," Bronner wrote, "when Israeli warplanes struck numerous targets simultaneously in the middle of a Saturday morning. Some 200 were killed instantly, shocking Hamas and indeed all of Gaza." The tactic of "going crazy" appears to have been successful, Bronner concluded: there are "limited indications that the people of Gaza felt such pain from this war that they will seek to rein in Hamas," the elected government. That is another long-standing doctrine of state terror. I don't, incidentally, recall the Times retrospective "Parsing Gains of Chechnya War," though the gains were great.
The meticulous planning also presumably included the termination of the assault, carefully timed to be just before the inauguration, so as to minimize the (remote) threat that Obama might have to say some words critical of these vicious US-supported crimes.
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •You may not be able to really turn your mobile phone microphone off. What about the camera?
Chomsky: Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed Categories: People under attack, EconomicsSend feedback » •Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed
October 12, 2008
By Noam ChomskyTHE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature.
Passion about the campaign may not be universally shared but almost everybody can feel the anxiety from the foreclosure of a million homes, and concerns about jobs, savings and healthcare at risk.
The initial Bush proposals to deal with the crisis so reeked of totalitarianism that they were quickly modified.
NSA Spied on US Service Members and Aid Workers Categories: Shady, People under attackSend feedback » •October 10th, 2008
New NSA Whistleblowers Say NSA Spied on US Service Members and Aid Workers
Deeplink by Hugh D'Andrade
This has been a bad week for President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. First, a government study reported that data-mining is actually a hindrance in the fight against terrorism. And now, two new whistleblowers have come forward with firsthand accounts of how innocent Americans' communications have been swept up in the NSA's dragnet.
According to ABC News and a new book by James Bamford, David Murfee Faulk and Adrienne Kinne witnessed and participated in the interception of hundreds of personal, intimate calls from American service members and aid workers. They say NSA employees have been routinely intercepting the calls of individuals with no involvement in terrorism.
Columbus Day: A celebration of the brutality Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •Maybe it's worth thinking about monsters like Columbus and how they brutally hack their way to the ends of the physical earth, and now hide amongst the people waiting for their next profit. What makes a monster?
50 Percent of Food is Wasted Causing Water, Food and Hunger Crisis Categories: Signs of Decreasing Health, People under attackSend feedback » •I'm reading some of this:
http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Policy_Briefs/PB_From_Filed_to_Fork_2008.pdf
after I read:
http://www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp?node=343which is a policy brief describing how 50 percent of food is wasted.
The same articles are linked from:
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/press/index.asp
Inshallah Categories: People under attackSend feedback » •Gratitude to this military jury for not locking an innocent man up for the rest of his life.
Article: Guantánamo trial sentence stuns Bush administration
"Murdered by Mumia" examined Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •There is a factsheet published by the Partisan Defense Committee that examines the "facts" portrayed in Maureen Faulkner and Michael Smerconish's book Murdered By Mumia.
Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’ [Media Lens Media Alert] Categories: Uncategorized, People under attackSend feedback » •Subject: Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
From: "Media Lens Media Alerts" noreply@medialens.org
Date: Mon, March 3, 2008 8:42 amMEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
March 3, 2008
MEDIA ALERT: Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
Attacking The Prisoners
Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the ‘prison’ of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and ‘incursions’ by Israeli troops. The dead include many women and children, such as four boys who had been out playing football and even babies killed in their homes. Last Saturday alone saw the deaths of 60 Palestinians under Israeli attacks. Three Israelis have died - one a civilian killed during a rocket attack by Hamas last Wednesday and, since then, two Israeli soldiers.
On February 29, Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UK, said on the BBC Today programme that:
“We've been restraining ourselves for a very, very long time. But we have a responsibility to defend our citizens. This is the context.” (BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Edward Stourton, Friday, February 29, 2008, 7.30 am; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ram/today3_israel_20080229.ram
The same day, a senior Israeli source threatened a “holocaust” in Gaza.
politics of birth Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •What is it that causes this culturally accepted criminal action that is so widespread in our culture... the abuse of mother and baby?
