Posted by Chris Hedges in TruthDig. Excerpt:
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties.
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Independent Political Report
Socialist Action statement on Gaza conflict
By Fred Church Ortiz on December 30, 2008 1:58 PM
Socialist Action has issued a statement calling for an end to “all aid to Apartheid Israel” and slamming neighboring Arab states as complicit in the latest episode of violence in the Gaza strip:
Since it withdrew its occupation of Gaza, the Zionist rulers of Israel have maintained it as an open-air prison and most of the time as a shooting gallery.
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Ann Garrison: ‘Where else will the LGBT community, or the anti-war and environmental communities, have to turn in 2012?’
By paulie on December 30, 2008 1:53 PM
Posted by Ann Garrison at Colored Opinions. One error of fact, which does not change the larger point: Nader ran as an independent in 2004, Green candidate Cobb and Libertarian Badnarik actually were arrested at a presidential debate that year, but Nader did run on the Green ticket in 1996 and 2000.…
Joseph Burgess: ‘Famous factious flinging of footwear’
By paulie on December 30, 2008 1:21 PM
By Joseph Burgess at The Populist Party
Did you read or hear recent news reports that the Iraqi television newsman who heaved his shoes at George W.…
Israeli war ship rams boat carrying McKinney, others
By Gregg Jocoy on December 30, 2008 12:56 PM
In a post at Green Party Watch, Ronald Hardy reports on an attack on the Dignity, a small vessel carrying human rights activists to the Gaza strip.…
Steve Kubby: How the US Government outlawed a harmless, but potent anti-cancer drug
By paulie on December 30, 2008 12:51 PM
by Steve Kubby.
Yesterday, I received word about a very special lady, who is also my cousin, and who is fighting for her life. Her name is Lisa and she is losing her battle with breast cancer.…
Libertarian Party of Colorado blog: ‘Cop shoots man either involved in a break-in, or was he trying to commit suicide?’
By paulie on December 29, 2008 5:10 PM
Posted by Severin Schneider:
Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in the Montbello neighborhood that sent one man to the hospital early today. Denver Police say the shooting happened at 51st and Fontana Court just before 4 a.m.
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Jacqueline Salit: ‘How the independent movement went left by going right’
By paulie on December 29, 2008 4:30 PM
Found at The Hankster. Excerpt:
Understanding how America has changed entails understanding how the independent movement has changed. To do that, you have to look at the new concepts of independent politics and how they were engineered and developed in and by the CUIP networks.
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Eric Ward: White nationalists hope to create a third alternative to the current US two party system
By paulie on December 29, 2008 4:26 PM
Found at Imagine 2050
The Republican Party is in disarray after its loss to Barack Obama, and on the sidelines white nationalists are skillfully preparing political attacks on the new American president.
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