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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Egypt…the revolution keeps revolving (Today’s “Women’s March”)
Today saw Egypt’s women come out in force to march against the regime’s treatment of female protestors, its policies toward women, the antidemocratic policies of the military junta, and the lack of women’s rights in Egypt generally (see footage below). … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt and Revolution
Tagged egypt, egyptian military, egyptian women, march, protest, revolution, Tahrir, women
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Bradley Manning in court, Day One
UPDATE: This livefeed from The Guardian lucidly describes the details as the defense wraps up (12/21/11). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/dec/21/bradley-manning-hearing-live-updates For some background, see my March 2011 posts on Manning, Part One and Part Two. See also the video of the US military … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled
Tagged Bradley Manning, collateral murder, court, detention, prison, torture, treatment, war crimes
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Occupy Wall Street as Three-card Monte for the media (or: Who’s a ringer?)
Posted in Occupy
Tagged demands, ill doctrine, occupy wall street, ringers, three card monty
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The time we killed civilians in order to save civilians… (NATO in Libya)
UPDATE: NYTimes reporters have increased the estimate of deaths. “The acknowledgement came after a New York Times investigation revealed at least 40 civilians, and perhaps more than 70, were killed by NATO airstrikes, including at least 29 women or children.” … Continue reading
Rick Perry’s YouTube advertisement: Let the voting begin.
If international voting on the Perry Youtube video on a fictional “Obama’s War on Christmas” had anything to do with the election, Perry would not be happy with the results. I watched Rick Perry’s new advertisement after a friend sent … Continue reading
The last gasps of the Bill of Rights, plus Ozone Widget and the Lord’s Army (Nation Defense Authorization Act)
UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald walks us through the language of the bill in crystal-clear terms, making it clear how terrible its provisions truly are: http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/singleton/ National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1031: a) military may intervene to apprehend and arrest on US … Continue reading
Posted in War Economics
Tagged defense authorization act, greenwald, indefinite detention, US citizens
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Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
Who’s in charge? This poster is on the wall of my local Starbucks.
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled
Tagged Inequality in US, racism, sexism, starbucks, structural, US, workplace
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