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Pope Francis, Help the Children Sexually Abused by Priests: Open the Vatican Archives With so many difficult issues to deal with, Pope Francis has recently been handed a golden opportunity to deal with one of the most vexing of those issues: Child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, and its aiding and abetting and subsequent cover-up by Catholic Church officials....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 8:21am PST
Ukraine: U.S. Backed Rioters Burn Central Kiev, Kill 10 Policemen, 26 People Killed 
[Photo: Tuesday February 18, 2004 rightist uprising in Kiev. Note the red and black flag of Nazi occupation in the Ukraine. This was the flag of followers of Stepan Bandera’s Nazi collaborators of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The UPA were directly responsible for killing between 40,000 and 60,000 Poles in the Volhynia Region in 1943 as well as many Jews and Communists. With Nazi German aid, including the training of troops in Abwehr military camps, the UPA helped facilitate the Nazi in...
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 3:24pm PST
The Cape Town Declaration: South African solidarity w/ Palestine, Western Sahara and Cuba 
South Africa’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee held a “Solidarity Conference in Support of the Peoples of Palestine, Western Sahara and Cuba” on Thursday, 6th February 2014. The session was opened by an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle, Ahmed Kathrada. He was followed to the podium by South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations, Marius Fransman; the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Mr Tisetso Magama, MP; and the Ambassadors of...
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 4:26pm PST
Tierra Caliente: The freedom we have now, we haven’t had in twelve years 
At the barricades and in the towns, people were enthusiastic about following their own agenda, regardless of whatever plans the State might have....
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 2:50pm PST
Tierra Caliente: La libertad que tenemos ahora no la hemos tenido en doce años 
En las barricadas y los pueblos se nota bastante entusiasmo para seguir con una agenda propia, sea cual sea la del Estado....
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 2:28pm PST
Police Profiling & Military Spying: Why I Am Suing the Olympia Police Department (OPD) 
In 2010, I was framed for assault on an officer at a protest in solidarity with Oscar Grant and other victims of police violence. The circumstances of the protest we're highly suspicious and I soon learned through public records that the police received a tip from a man working for the Fort Lewis military base. The repression of this protest against police brutality came after a criminal intelligence analyst named John Towery who was working for the US military was proven to have infiltrated...
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 6:08am PST
Constructing the Anti-Government “Protests” in Venezuela Through Deception: A Photo Gallery There is no flabby pretense of “objectivity” on the part of the international media when it comes to Venezuela. That country poses a stark threat to the hegemonic order, characterized these days by tame Latin American states, emerging from US-backed military dictatorships, now gamely accepting neoliberal economic policies like good little boys and girls....
Posted: Mon, Feb 17, 2014 9:08am PST
The Free Trade Agreement TTIP - New Edition of the "Golden Age" Lobbyists and think tanks of transnational corporations dreamt of a global market without limits. Lobby organizations and politics joined together in a free trade fever to maintain and develop their leadership in the world economy. With enticing slogans like more economic growth or creation of new jobs, the population should accept the trade- and investment agreement....
Posted: Mon, Feb 17, 2014 4:51am PST
Argentina Files Final Supreme Court Appeal in Global Hedge Fund Debt Case Religious Community Joins IMF, Legitimate Investors and Governments in Opposing Exploitative Hedge Fund Behavior...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 12:25pm PST
Moral March unites many struggles 
Annually, the NAACP in North Carolina holds a march known as the Historic Thousands on Jones Street under the leadership of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II. The march was situated near the center of downtown Raleigh near Shaw University, with major bank skyscrapers positioned less than five blocks from working class homes. This year the march fell on Feb. 8. Building on the momentum of the weekly "Moral Monday" protests in Raleigh, the "Moral March" drew an unprecedentedly large crowd....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 11:40am PST
We can't go on like this by Serge Halimi "The game is not over. The neoliberal dream has lost its status as an absolute and an ideal, without which its social projects will wither and perish. All it is capable of producing now are privileges, and cold, dead beings. A change will occur. Each of us can help it happen a little sooner."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 10:53am PST
Philippines: 'Forward, Bayanihang Sosyalismo!' Popularising a socialism 'with local colour 
The following is the English-language translation of a document on bayanihan socialism that was presented at the convention of the Philippines socialist party Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, PLM) in December, 2013....
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 10:03pm PST
On the death of Filipino Comedian-Activist Arvin “Tado” Jimenez 
We mourn the untimely loss of an artist, comrade, and friend who had been one of standard-bearers of our party during the local elections in May last year....
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 9:53pm PST
Modesty as an Economic Model "This completely deregulated sphere (derivatives) ultimately grew to greater dimensions than the real economy. That was undoubtedly absolute madness.. People are working on a correction.. A smaller financial sector need not be unconditionally bad.. Changes like shriveling the financial sector are an immediate threat for the dominant power structures.. From history, we know changing what people believed was the problem every time. The economy is a faith like every other.. We cannot manage wit...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 6:52am PST
FLUSH THE TPP! Or, How I Came To Hate The Trans Pacific Partnership Deal QUICK FLUSH - TPP 101 - Want to eat poisoned food or triple your medication costs? TPP will do that. Confused about how Multinational Corporations created the TPP, a Trans Pacific Partnership 'Trade Deal' that will hurt people globally? Wikileaks recently published two chapters of the agreement big corporations developed in years of secret talks. Before we have our say, Obama wants to Fast Track TPP through Congress. Please read the accompanying article, a quick summary of why we should...
Posted: Sat, Feb 8, 2014 8:14am PST
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