“To Shoot An Elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. [youtube]JXHB2dnd42Q[/youtube] Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians on the receiving end of tanks, helicopter […]
Censorship
20 years ago the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm to fight back Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Has the United States learned any lessons since? [youtube]CEyIsoGLzko[/youtube] Author John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says the US mainstream media worked as agents for the government, if you […]
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. [youtube]b0ErwcSlM8A[/youtube] Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the […]
There has been a fresh round of articles appearing recently concerning world population, suggesting that journalists may have grown tired finally of writing / worrying / bullshitting about climate change. Indeed, Google Trends indicates that articles on population growth have doubled since 2008. Apparently, 2011 is the year the planet […]
The Islamabad government has admitted for the first time that there are US Marines operating in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, a report says. The disclosure has been made during a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary committee on defense, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Senator Khurshid Ahmed, a member […]
Who are these people? Where do they come from? How do they get in power?
[youtube]zpbW64vRrMc[/youtube] The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands […]
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Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, […]
The actor’s Satellite Sentinel Project is collaborating with other organizations to aim commercial satellites at the nation’s north-south border in hopes of preventing possible genocide. “You can go on Google Earth and Google my house,” said the actor. “I thought, if that’s the way it is and they’re gonna be […]