Source – wolfstreet.com – Socialist mayor to fulfill campaign promises by “printing” money: By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Over the next six months, Barcelona’s left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world. The main goal…
Source – sputniknews.com – Right on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s four year anniversary, activist group Anonymous has launched a new campaign which they say outlines an “easy” way for the 99% to demonstrate their strength and overcome the richest 1%. © AFP 2015/ Stan HONDA Occupy Wall Street Activists Gather in…
Source – newrepublic.com – They brought Che Guevara at five o’clock in the afternoon of October 9 to the airfield outside the small town of Vallegrande in southeastern Bolivia. The fighting had been fierce. Che had been among the first casualties and his comrades had been fighting viciously to recover the body. They failed. Most…
Source – truthdig.com – All resistance will be local. We will have to dismantle the corporate state, piece by piece, from the ground up. No leader or politician is going to do it for us. Every community that bans fracking, every university and institution that embraces the boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement, every individual…
Source – ift.tt – A soft, corporate dictatorship with financial, academic, and regulatory reach has kept the revolutionary spirt of the population at bay through a false narrative to label genetically modified food. The People have voted to stop chemical pesticide and herbicide testing in their communities only to be ignored, while at the local…
Source – theanalysts.org – There is a long tradition among prominent Jewish figures opposing the Israeli state, who found themselves, like Isaac Asimov, “in the odd position of not being a Zionist”. ON 9 AUGUST 2014, 150 000 protesters marched in London in solidarity with the people of Gaza who were suffering a barbaric assault…
Source – ragingbullshit.com – Barcelona’s left-wing city council has voted against adopting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the highly controversial multilateral trade agreement being negotiated behind closed doors by the U.S. and the European Union. The decision was passed yesterday thanks to support from the left-wing parties that proposed the motion: Barcelona en…
Source – redo.me.uk – Official Campaign Announcement – John McAfee 2016: Derrick Broze interviews founder of McAfee Antivirus and Cyber Party’s 2016 Presidential Candidate John McAfee. As President, John McAfee says he would pardon the developer of the Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, and that the US is in a very real cyber war. Presidential candidate…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – My friend and colleague, David DeGraw, just launched The Independent Project (TIP) (2-minute video): 2014 Gallup poll on Americans’ confidence in Congress: David writes: “Election 2016: A Historic Opportunity To Reclaim Our Freedom If the most powerful global corporations get their way and money determines the outcome of the Republican and…
Source – transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu – “…He traveled often, to the Maine woods and to Cape Cod several times, and was particularly interested in the frontier and Indians. He opposed the government for waging the Mexican war (to extend slavery) eloquently in Resistance to Civil Government, based on his brief experience in jail; he lectured against slavery in an…
Source – journal-neo.org – President Obama just like any other US politician is particularly keen on criticizing human rights situations in other countries, while glorifying the ideals of “American-style democracy.” Moreover, these topics are not simply the prime topic of his speeches, but the basis for meddling in other countries’ affairs under the guise of “promoting…
Source – theguardian.com – Used to sticking two fingers up at the establishment, Vivienne Westwood has driven a tank to David Cameron’s constituency home in a protest against fracking. The fashion designer took up the position usually reserved for the tank’s gunner on top of the vehicle’s turret as it made its way through Witney…
Source – dailycallernewsfoundation.org, By Jonah Bennett – For many Americans, a coup in which the military seizes control of the federal government is starting to seem like a refreshing alternative to the existing administration, according to a new poll. Conducted by YouGov, a new survey has found that 29 percent of Americans could imagine a…
Source – yesmagazine.org – I started on the Northwest part of this roadtrip to find the places where there is resistance to fossil fuel expansion, and I have found them. But I also found that many of the same people are not only rejecting a paradigm built on exploitation and domination, they are working to…
Source – womensenews.org – Less than a week after being crowned Mrs. Universe, Ashley Callingbull is calling for political change in her native country of Canada and putting the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women in the spotlight. The 25-year-old made history last weekend in Belarus when she became the first Canadian and first…
Source – michelinewalker.com – The Métis in Canada: “The term ‘Métis’ does not mean any white person who believes they also have some Native ancestry.” (See Métis, Wikipedia.) – Many Canadians combine European and Amerindian ancestry to a lesser or greater extent. In the early years of the colony, French settlers married Amerindian women. After the…
Source – latinorebels.com – In 1940, the great Charlie Chaplin created a film that went after Hitler two years before America did. It was Chaplin’s first talking movie and his most successful one. At a time when the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany, Chaplin’s movie, which was political satire at its…
Source – operationdisclosure.blogspot.ca – (Editors Note: …Personally, I filed this one behind my ‘Flat Earth’ dossier – after all, wasn’t he Milt Romney’s hand-picked running-mate in 2012?. Yes he of Bain Capital fame, the very epitome of fraudulent corporate America. Yet at some point in time ” Amerika Inc” will succumb & fall, & in…
Source – law2.umkc.edu – Asked about his first sexual experience by an interviewer, Reverend Jerry Falwell said, “I never really expected to make it with Mom, but then after she showed all the other guys in town such a good time, I thought ‘What the hell!’” Falwell went on to describe a a Campari-fueled sexual…
Source – theunboundedspirit.com – The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the greatest minds that have ever walked on our planet. His philosophical insights transformed the world of philosophy and took it to the next level. Here you will read for yourself some of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most powerful quotes that will open your mind and help you…
Source – tenthamendmentcenter.com – When people think of the causes of the American War for Independence, they think of slogans like “no taxation without representation” or cause célèbre like the Boston Tea Party. In reality, however, what finally forced the colonials into a shooting war with the British Army in April 1775 was not taxes or…
Source – collectivelyconscious.net – Senator Sanders, in his no-nonsense approach, released a report identifying 18 CEOs responsible for wrecking the economy. Bernie Sanders is the underdog in the American political race, but he’s quickly gaining momentum as a prime candidate to lead the US, as his no-nonsense, candor approach is appreciated by many – especially…
Source – therealnews.com – Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in…
Source – theguardian.com, By Edward Helmore – Pornographer and civil liberties advocate calls for neo-Nazi to be spared, saying death penalty is ‘not justice but vengeance’: By the brutal norms of American capital punishment, few recipients of a lethal injection will trouble consciences less deeply than Joseph Paul Franklin. In a spree of racially motivated…
Source – zerohedge.com – Earlier this week, in an FT op-ed, Eurointelligence’s Wolfgang Münchau said that in his estimation, an EMU exit remains the most likely outcome for Greece. The reason, Münchau explained, is that “[Greek PM Alexis] Tsipras ended up with another very lousy bailout deal. And this one suffers from the same fundamental…
Source – naturalnews.com – Demonstrating America’s extreme vulnerability to activist-driven hackers who are trying to make a point, the New York Stock Exchange was shuttered for most of the day yesterday, stalling out hundreds of billions of dollars in trades. The lying mainstream media, of course, has rolled out a pathetic (yet hilarious) cover story…
Source – collectivelyconscious.net – Gary Hart, the former senator from Colorado who twice sought the presidency in the 1980s, made a fervent plea for American youth to summon the courage necessary to revolt against the hopelessly corrupt government: “The question is: by adhering to the highest principles and ideals, will America continue to have the…
Source – upworthy.com – In 2012, Matt Damon helped pay tribute to the late historian and author Howard Zinn. This rendition of a speech Zinn gave in 1970 on civil disobedience is one of his most powerful performances to date. http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-matt-damons-finest-performances-was-never-in-theaters
Source – thefreethoughtproject.com – “The worst part about it is my husband’s a police officer, he’s a deputy sheriff. It’s a double-edged sword: We know the law, but at the same time, she’s suffering and it’s not always feasible to up and move to Colorado.” Greene County, TN — The state’s immoral war on drugs…
Source – allthingscynthiamckinney.com – First of all, who is Dr. Paul Craig Roberts? Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns…
by Rabb!t / Earth First! Newswire canadian-uprising.org The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank based in Ottawa, released two reports Wednesday, both of which concluded that aboriginal groups in Canada have a tremendous amount of influence over the future direction of the country. One of the reports, written by Douglas Bland, concluded that…
“…There I was in you Air Force Uncle Sam, you owned my brain. I tried to see myself as a sex mad savior sailing on a silver plane. I started out to do my duty ended up just doing time. What is it about you my mother of a country that makes so many change…
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