What’s the plan? It is this. McCain doesn’t matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police (…)
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Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?
5 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Mexico, October 2, 1968: The Night of Tlatelolco; the Death of the Student Movement
4 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
by Ernesto Páramo, translated by Machetera
The events of the night of Tlatelolco are still concealed, 40 years later, by a cold, dense fog that obscures the identity of a multitude of secondary actors, who nevertheless played important roles in the tragedy. The main actors who took the decisions and had direct responsibility for the events that led to the slaughter were: the President of the Republic, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; the Interior Secretary, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, the head of the (…) -
Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
29 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Bill Van Auken
For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest.
Beginning on October 1, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be placed under the command of US Army North, the Army’s component of the Pentagon’s Northern Command (NorthCom), which was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the (…) -
Pre-election Militarization of the North America
29 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
by Michel Chossudovsky
The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has been attached to US Army North, the Army’s component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). (…) -
Video: Five Arrested at the White House
12 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentVideo: Five Arrested at the White House
Five activists protesting the injustice of the “Cuban Five” case, on Sept. 12, 2008, were arrested, around noon today, outside the White House. When the police ordered them not to cross a “police line,” set up arbitrarily on the sidewalk, they refused to comply in an act of civil disobedience. Prior to the arrests, a rally was held on the street, (just north of the White House). It was sponsored by the “National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.” (…) -
Mussolini’s Fascism, this is what it looks like
1 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the “Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism,” once said: “the keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
Just in case we needed a little reminder of what Mussolini meant and what Fascism really looks like, below is a photo from the (…) -
Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power
23 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsJul. 23, 2008 | The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into White House malfeasance that would be modeled after the (…)
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Want some torture with your peanuts?
8 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Jeffrey Denning
Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.
This bracelet would:
• take the place of an airline boarding pass
• contain (…) -
’ATTAC Morocco: Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni
16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni.
Since Saturday, June 7 early in the morning,a fierce repression has fallen on the citizens of the town of Sidi Ifni Aït Baamran, in the South of Morocco and against its youth that, fed by false promises of employment and economic advancement of the region, have been blocking the port for the last week. The police and rapid intervention forces have been displaced by thousands from several regions of Morocco . Police forces have (…) -
ATTAC Morocco : Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni. www.maroc.attac.org
13 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni.
Since Saturday, June 7 early in the morning,a fierce repression has fallen on the citizens of the town of Sidi Ifni Aït Baamran, in the South of Morocco and against its youth that, fed by false promises of employment and economic advancement of the region, have been blocking the port for the last week. The police and rapid intervention forces have been displaced by thousands from several regions of Morocco . Police forces have (…)