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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Blogger's Note

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Blogger has launched a new interface and it is just awful. The formatting problems have been going on for weeks now and it has become quite ...

Libya: Connect the Dots-You Get a Giant Dollar Sign

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Terrific piece by Russ Baker. http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/06/06/libya-connect-the-dots-you-get-a-giant-dollar-sign/

Photo O' The Day, April 29, 2012

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From Cindy's newsletter: FYI: We had scheduled and confirmed an interview with Glenn Greenwald a couple of months back and he just n...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Egypt Counterrevolution Update: The elBaradei Charade Deepens.

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[Blogger's note: Blogspot has gone to a new interface and it's full of glitches. One problem is that the formatting doesn't work...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Quebec Students Endure Despite Police State Repression

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http://networkedblogs.com/wXu5O

A farewell to U.S. factories

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Although the absolute number of jobs in American manufacturing was rather constant at about 17 million from 1969 to 2002, manufacturing’s sh...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

India contributes half of world’s measles deaths

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GDP soaring but India's children still dying from easily prevented diseases. This is called capitalism. http://bikyamasr.com/67083...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's Story

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April 25, 2012 "The Independent" - - For little Sayef, there will be no Arab Spring. He lies, just 14 months old, on a small red b...

Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31177.htm

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"The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as...

Happy Sinai Liberation Day 2012

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http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-sinai-liberation-day-2012.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campa...

Why Isn’t Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class?

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Great piece. http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/25/why-isnt-closing-40-philadelphia-public-schools-national-news-where-is-the-black-politica...

USA: Occupy’s “precarious” general strike

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http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article24875

Protest Time in Tunisia Again

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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107504
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

May Day General Strike Posters

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Can be found here , some good, some not. The comments are worth reading. I responded but judging by the tenor of the other comments I'm...

Paris Commune Addresses The Soldiers Of Versailles' Army

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In short it appeals to them to defect. It says that "like us you are proletarians" and the monarchists and shouldn't be all...

Bangladesh labor leader murdered two weeks after international rights victory

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Weeks after winning a major commitment from American clothing giant Phillips-Van Heusen to improve labor conditions in the garment factories...
Monday, April 23, 2012

India tests long-range missile capable of striking China’s cities

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WW3 on the way. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/indi-a24.shtml

Photo O' The Day, Egypt revolution graffiti

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http://bikyamasr.com/66903/photo-of-the-day-egypt-revolution-graffiti/

Quebec student strike contines

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Photo, text and quick video. http://blogs.ubc.ca/workplace/2012/04/quebec-student-strike-contines/

Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons

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Although the U.S. abolished debtors’ prisons in the 1830s, more than a third of U.S. states allow the police to haul people in who don’t pay...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Egypt ElBaradei wants 5 million members in his new party

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ElBaradei isn't the only Trojan Horse in the race, he's just one of them. His new party is called "The Revolution". It c...

Mitt Romney, American Parasite

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This is called capitalism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31153.htm

Election 2012, Who's Your Daddy?

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Financial ‘Reform’ Failure: Chase, Bank Of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Now 30% Bigger; Control Assests Equal To 56% Of U.S. Economy

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The collapse of '08 was a scam. It was a controlled demolition designed to move wealth up the food chain to four or so richest families-...

Didacticide Update, The Tennessee Front

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Tennessee has now passed a law permitting teachers to present students with alternatives to well-known scientific principles. In case ther...

Quote O' The Day, April 22, 2012

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There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartles...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

New York City Democrats propose phony “living wage” bill

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I yield the floor to Lilly Tomlin for one of my favorite quotes: No matter how cynical I get I can never keep up. http://www.wsws.or...

Egypt Tantawi meets with US CENTCOM delegation in Cairo

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http://bikyamasr.com/66704/egypt-tantawi-meets-with-us-centcom-delegation-in-cairo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_camp...

Audio: Michigan Unions Challenge Payroll Dues Deduction Ban In Federal Court,

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http://www.laborradio.org/
Friday, April 20, 2012

Caveat Emptor: Mass rally in Paris for radical left presidential candidate

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Here we go again. If you think you can vote your way to justice then think again. The largest and strongest partner in the Front is the Fran...

Rhode Island Pension Cuts Set Chilling Precedents

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http://labornotes.org/2012/04/rhode-island-pension-cuts-set-chilling-precedents

Government Misinformation Campaign Targets Reporter

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31133.htm

Egyptian Electoral commission upholds ban on 10 presidential candidates

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Military dictators appoint the electoral commission, and the electoral commission decides who can run. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

World Bank Supports Harmful Water Corporations, Report Finds

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http://ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=107441

Wikiganda Alert: The Psy-op Moves To The Small Screen.

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As for me, I'm waiting for the musical. For those of you who are still deluded to think the US wouldn't shoot this guy if he was w...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Roots Of Occupy: The Battle In Seattle, 1999

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http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz180412.htm

Quote O' The Day, 18 April, 2012

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Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God! Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Single Mother Falsely Accused of Endangering Her Children at Occupy Oakland

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http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/single-mother-falsely-accused-of-endangering-her-children-at-occupy-oakland/

Gulf of Mexico seafood deformities alarm scientists

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http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/18/gulf-seafood-deformities-alarm-scientists/

Video: Marx on the Paris Commune: That is Socialism

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Class Warfare On Two Fronts: From Afghanistan To Middle America, The Untold Story Of Sgt. Bales

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Good piece. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mark-ames/42642/class-warfare-on-two-fronts-from-afghanistan-to-middle-america-the-untold-...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Quote O' The Day, 17 April, 2012

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So long as we have industrial feudalism, politics will be the shadow cast by business over society. John Dewey on Capitalism

Video Of Photos Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

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Mario Vaccarino, Union Boss Thought Killed by Mafia, Actually Slain by an Ex-Cop

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http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/1565

Poster O' The Day, 16 April, 2012: May Day General Strike

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Discovered her e.
Monday, April 16, 2012

Why the FCC Fined Google Just 68 Seconds in Profits

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http://www.propublica.org/article/why-the-fcc-fined-google-just-68-seconds-in-profits
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