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  • The Left and Support for Anti-Imperialist Islamic Resistance
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The massive demonstrations in European capitals and major cities in support of the people of Gaza highlighted once again the core problem: the vast majority of the Left, including communists, agrees in supporting the people of Gaza against Israeli aggression, but refuses to support its political expressions such as Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon..
    http://www.countercurrents.org/ross...

  • It’s Not Going to Be OK
    4 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Hedges
    The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious (…)

  • Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (video)
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video from Bellaciao - Paris - 09-01-29
    By Ian Traynor,
    Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters
    France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the (…)

  • Video: Jean Athey: Guard Shouldn’t be Used as “Backdoor Draft”
    24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2009, the “Bring the Guard Home! It’s the Law” campaign held a press conference. One of the speakers was Jean Athey of Maryland, Peace Action. She said that her group is proposing legislation to the General Assembly of Maryland that would require “the Maryland National Guard only to be called into federal service for legal purposes and that in the absence of legal authority, the Maryland National Guard should stay within the (…)

  • Icelandic police tear gas protesters
    22 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By VALUR GUNNARSSON and JILL LAWLESS
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Police used tear gas to break up an angry protest outside Iceland’s parliament early Thursday, and two officers were hospitalized after being hit by rocks, the force said.
    It was the first time the country’s police had used tear gas in more than half a century, and came as demonstrators mount increasingly violent protests against a government they blame for leading once-prosperous Iceland into economic ruin.
    Demonstrators, (…)

  • Video: “Arrest Bush” Rally 30 Photos
    21 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    These are 30 photos from the “Arrest Bush” rally and march in Washington, D.C., held on Jan. 19, 2009. For background, see: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38908 and http://shoebush.org/ and http://arrestbush2009.com/ and
    http://www.codepink4peace.org/. Check out related video on the rally and march to the White House, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRvTLUls2NY&feature=channel_page.

  • Video: Inflated 20 Ft. “Bushoccio” Gets Booted by Protesters
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Jan. 19, 2009, a huge, inflated doll figure, about 20 feet tall, of President George W. Bush, was set up in DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C., by antiwar activists. It was dressed in the outfit that Dubya wore when he did his stupid “Mission Accomplished” stunt a few years back. The figure was used as shoe and boot target practice by the protesters. Like Pinocchio of the Italian fairy tale, the Bush character, “Bushoccio,” had a very, very long nose. A recent study indicated that the (…)

  • Antiwar Activists “Boot” Dubya Out the Door
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “When a nation goes down...they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.” - Carl Sandburg
    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists got a chance to shout “good riddance” to George W. Bush—one of the worst presidents in all of American history. They did it by blasting him for his eight warmongering, torture-approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The lively rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. Besides (…)

  • Video: Lori Perdue’s “All You Can Eat” Poem
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush’s eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The “good riddance” to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. One of the featured speakers at the event was Ms. Lori Perdue. She is a poet, activist and a member of “Code Pink.” She did a dramatic reading of her excellent poem, “All You Can Eat.” (…)

  • Video: David Swanson: Appoint a "Special Prosecutor!"
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush’s eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet.org, was one of the speakers at the event. He demanded the appointment of a “Special Prosecutor” to bring to the bar of justice the (…)