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The Last American Idealist
LAPD killer Dorner's insane rampage was fired by a naïve faith in the country's political myth
| Nathan J. Robinson February 16, 2013 |
Christopher Dorner's brutal killings of multiple people vaguely associated with the Los Angeles police have caused debates over both the department's deployment of manhunt drones and the disastrous trigger-happiness that had them showering bullets on any hapless civilian with the misfortune to drive a t
HP and the Occupation
| Creede Newton January 29, 2013 |
In December 2009, the Israeli Knesset passed a law allowing for the creation of a biometric database of the inhabitants of Israel. As of January 2013, the program is in its initial testing stage.
"Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Serve?": The Struggle Against Police Brutality in New York
| by Lichi D’Amelio | Winter 2013 |
In the first days of October, NYPD Officer Kenneth Boss had his gun returned to him by Commissioner Ray Kelly after 13 years. Boss was one of four officers charged with the 1999 murder of 23-year-old Amadou Diallo. Diallo died in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Soundview section of the Bronx in a hail of 41 police bullets, 19 of which penetrated his body. Boss’s weapon was found to have fired 5 rounds.
Free Russian Political Prisoners!
| November 29, 2012 |
We the undersigned call for the liberation of the Russian political prisoners, both those already condemned, and sent to the new Gulag, like the two feminist activists of the Pussy Riot group, and those in jail awaiting trial – some 20 activists, socialists and anti-fascists, in connection with the demonstrations against Putin on May 6th.
Aaron Swartz: What We Know So Far, What We Need to Know
| John Halle January 17, 2013 |
The reaction to Aaron Swartz's suicide has quickly reached a level of intensity which may have surprised those who will eventually need to respond to it.
Traitors, Spies and Military Tribunals: The Assault on Civil Liberties During World War I
| by Eric Chester | Winter 2013 |
Introduction: On December 31, 2011 President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2011. Tucked into the bill providing the military with hundreds of billions of dollars were provisions authorizing the President to indefinitely detain in military jails those charged with providing "substantial support" to al-Qaida or the Taliban, and to prosecute these individuals in military tribunals.
We Stand with the Greek People Fighting Austerity, For Their Sake and Ours
| by Campaign for Peace and Democracy | Winter 2013 |
SEPTEMBER 2012—What is happening today in Greece is only the most extreme example of a global phenomenon: the world’s political and economic elites, who are responsible for the current economic crisis, want to make the rest of us pay for that crisis, no matter how much suffering this creates.
Istanbul Mayor Bans Freedom and Solidarity Party Campaign
| Dan La Botz December 18, 2012 |
While in Istanbul last week I participated in a march and demonstration by the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) on Dec. 9 to launch a campaign to link grassroots community organizations to a broader program for social and political change in Turkey. The march of hundreds of ODP members of all ages, some of them families with children, was a peaceful event though the chants were militant. "Let us live like human beings. Take the government's hands off the people," was one. And periodically the marchers shouted, "Revolt!"
A Call to Join in the International Days of Solidarity Against Political Repression in Russia
| Russian Socialist Movement, Autonomous Action, Left Front November 19, 2012 |
An appeal from the Russian leftists to their comrades in the struggle:
Infectious Disease
| by Robert Joe Stout | Summer 2012 |
"According to information supplied by members of the military high command in 1994, President Salinas already had given orders for a massive military move into Chiapas to root out and destroy the insurgents, but was dissuaded by the United States Embassy and some of his own governmental advisors because Subcomandante Marcos had become a charismatic figure worldwide and Mexico could not afford the negative publicity that crushing the movement would create.