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Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis: When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so, after years of providing Libya's dictator with the weapons he's been using against his people, all the international community - France, Britain and the United States - has to offer the peo..."El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in the world," according to the US State Department, as violence between rival gangs and drug cartels is far worse on a per capita basis than neighboring Mexico, where killings draw more media attention.Today’s violence has similar root causes to the issues which started the political conflict in the 1980s, including judicial impunity, economic inequality and social fragmentation, says Ivan Briscoe, a conflict researcher and Latin America expert at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands.
"In El Salvador, there was an absolutely brutal conflict that has been passed down to gang violence," he says. "Inequality led to the insurgency, but now this inequality has found expressions in other forms."'Many dead' in Syrian crackdown
Ghosts of Iraq: Why the War Against Libya Remains Leaderless
On the fifth straight day of foreign, air- and sea-based attacks against Qaddafi's forces, there is still no one leading the massive Western force. The U.S., as Pentagon officials frequently point out at daily press conferences, is not in charge. NATO, still deadlocked by internal disputes, is not in charge. The United Nations Security Council, which only gave enough authority to enforce a no-fly zone, is not in charge of the now far more aggressive campaign. The Arab League, which withdrew its support within hours of granting it, is certainly not in charge. It would be as if, in June 1944, the allied powers decided to invade Normandy at roughly the same time, but didn't bother to appoint General Eisenhower to command and coordinate the multi-national force.
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Karzai to Taliban: let kids go to school (VIDEO)
Karzai said that if the Taliban wanted foreigners to leave Afghanistan, they should let children be educated.
( Sentiment going around is that means 'mindwashed' )Bear this in mind- A senior diplomat in a western mission to the UN in New York, who I have known over ten years and trust, has told me for sure that Hillary Clinton agreed to the cross-border use of troops to crush democracy in the Gulf, as a quid pro quo for the Arab League calling for Wester ...www.youtube.com
READ DESCRIPTION!! READ DESCRIPTION!! READ DESCRIPTION!! Its not our country.. I dont like the fact that America is the police of the world.. They have underlying motives.. america sit back and let Gaza get blown up right?? Lupe even pointed it out in his songs.. i thoguht i was the only one who r( Sit back ? Finance and Supply )
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This Saturday, protests are planned in the UK, the US, and Canada against corporate tax avoiders and government austerity cuts. The UK Uncut movement has been going strong, occupying retail outlets as diverse as Vodafone and TopShop, and its solidarity movement in the US is just getting started.www.truth-out.org
Bush administration officials have long asserted that the torture techniques used on "war on terror" detainees were utilized as a last resort.... But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout ... tell a dramatically different story.www.truth-out.org
The reign of lawlessness continues in Wisconsin. Last week, a local court issued a stay temporarily blocking the implementation of Governor Scott Walker's radical proposal to do away with most collective bargaining rights for public workers and cripple labor's ability to collect union dues. The cour...
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The 2011 federal budget is billed as the “low-tax plan for jobs and growth,” but there is little of substance new here — either on spending to create jobs or tax cuts. At most, it includes a lot of bits and pieces in a politically opportunistic bid to stay in power.www.truth-out.org
Dean Baker: The flood of nonsense in the traditional news outlets just continues to grow. At the top of the list is the steady stream of senators or members of Congress whose response to higher gas prices is to insist on drilling in every square inch of environmentally sensitive territory in the cou...readersupportednews.org
Friday March 25 - Monday April 18. No action scheduled for where you are? Then be bold and organize one yourself!Location:Time: 12:00AM Wednesday, March 23rdvodpod.com
First I blogged the pics and here is the unbelievable video.. Source: Huff Post First I blogged the pics and now here is the unbelievable video. Posted in odd news Tagged: & Bear, Lion, They Love Each Other, tiger
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John Caelan from the website The Swamp Post has created a couple of time-lapse videos that map protests from December 18 to March 7, 2011, where the protests and uprisings can be seen spreading out into different countries.www.youtube.comwww.youtube.comhttp://www.memri.org/ http://www.memritv.org/clip/en
OMG MYSTERY now in Thailand? UFO, Black hole! Norwegian authorities are investigating strange lights seen in the arctic sky. The spiraling white light was seen for several minutes on Wednesday morning. Locals say the light appeared to be bigger than the moon. Thousands of Norwegians bombarded thewww.youtube.com
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DENTON, Texas -- FEMA Region 6 will partner with the state of Arkansas in a catastrophic earthquake exercise in May that will directly involve at least three other FEMA regions, several states and federal partners throughout the U.S./2830.htm http://www.memritv.org/ Institute for Responsible Technology
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South Africa has dumped genetically modified (GM) maize on African markets, the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) alleged on Friday.
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A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across the country, in protests against budgets cuts gone wild.www.examiner.com
GMO Rallies around the nation this Saturday, March 26th have been organized to spread awareness of genetically modified foods and Monsanto’s increasing monopolywww.youtube.com
Freedom of Internet Freedom of Liberty Freedom to sanity Anonymous to be Unanimous - Operation Empire State Rebellion A99 #OpESR Go VIRAL! "Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing the Guy Fawkes masks popularized by the comic book and film V for Vendetta"
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Peggy Carey, M.D., Vermont Physicians for a National Health Program Deborah Richter, M.D., Vermont for Single Payer Plus physicians available for interview in 26 states via Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.orgMedia Roots
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The biological co-mingling of animal and human is now evolving into even more exotic and unsettling mixes of species.
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CAPÍTULO I A éstos me dirijo, que los viejos -los viejos de corazón y de espíritu, entiéndase bien- no se molesten en leer lo que no ha de afectarles en nada. Supongo que tenéis dieciocho owww.youtube.com
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (http://policyalternatives.ca/) presents: Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. ** Help spread this video: rate it, comment on it, favourite it, share it ** Speaking at a benefit event for the CanadianForthestate
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Google loses decision on digital library and bookstore
A judge has ruled against Google's plan to create the world's largest digital library — a pet project of Larry Page, the Google co-founder — on the basis of copyright.
Karl Rove's Audacious Transparency Hypocrisy
Crossroads GPS, a non-profit co-founded by Rove that runs attack ads against Democratic candidates nationwide, has initiated an intriguing project called Wikicountability.org. This wiki site aims to post information on the Obama administration obtained by organizations, individuals, and journalists (via the Freedom of Information Act) and offer all these documents for crowd-sourcing. With this move, Rove's outfit is aligning itself with the transparency movement. Its press release announcing the site declares:The new initiative is designed to make federal departments and agencies more accountable to the public. Groups and individuals will be able to upload their own FOIA requests and responses to the website, creating a national clearinghouse for data concerning the Obama Administration. Thousands of pages of information from the Departments of Labor and HHS have already been uploaded to the site, and Crossroads is encouraging other groups and individuals to upload their own FOIA information to the site as well.
This Crossroads GPS project, though, is built upon a profound incongruity. The conservative organization is championing accountability and openness, yet it does not disclose the well-heeled funders and special interests underwriting its own efforts to shape the political system. Last year, Crossroads GPS—which Rove and Ed Gillespie, another former Bush White House aide, created following the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision—spent $17 million on the 2010 elections to elect Republicans. NBC News reported that a "substantial portion of Crossroads GPS' money came from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls." Crossroads GPS is the poster-nonprofit for secret campaign mega-money.
Ros-Lehtinen targets several State Department budget items
Josh Rogin - the administration's separation of State Department funding between regular budget accounts and the war-related account known as "overseas contingency operations," (OCO) obscures what she calls the "dramatic and unsustainable" funding increases for diplomacy and development over recent years. The OCO account includes money to help the State Department assume increased responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, which totaled $5.1 billion in fiscal year 2010.
Ros-Lehtinen said that when all the money requested is totaled, it equals $61.4 billion -- or a 13 percent increase over fiscal 2010 levels.According to the Office of Management and Budget, the entire State Department and USAID fiscal 2012 budget request, which can be found here, seeks just over $47 billion, a 1 percent increase over fiscal 2010 levels. The president is requesting a grand total of $50.9 billion for U.S. diplomacy and development efforts, after accounting for programs outside State and USAID, such as the Peace Corps, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. That's $3.7 billion -- or 6.7 percent less -- than the $54.6 billion that was requested for the same accounts in fiscal 2011.Obama is also requesting $8.7 billion in supplemental funding for the State Department and USAID in fiscal 2012 under the OCO account, a $2.3 billion increase over the fiscal 2011 request.Ros-Lehtinen criticized several items in the administration's budget request.Navy chief: We don’t know what happens next in Libya war
Roughead also said there's no guarantee that U.S. military forces would be able to decrease their presence or activities when the transition takes place. In other words, the U.S. military might give up control, but still be doing most of the work.
Ohioans oppose rollback of public employee bargaining rights, too
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