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In the middle of the day, Bradley Manning was transported from Quantico Marine brig in Virginia to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Pentagon officials say he is being moved to "an environment more conducive for a longer detention." They also claim Ft. Leavenworth… Read full post »

A protester carrying a banner: "Leave you thief! Mubarak should be tried in front of an international court." by Hossam el-Hamalawy


*Cross-posted at WLCentral.org


At 2:30 PM Egypt time, there are well over a million Egyptians in and around Tahrir Square. The atmosphere is being described by Al
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Photo by ¡Que comunismo!

 

One of over two hundred and fifty thousand State Department cables leaked by WikiLeaks reveals the coup in Honduras, the forced removal of President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, was understood to be illegal.

 

The cable summary explains, &ld… Read full post »

 

Former Guantanamo detainee and "terror suspect" Ahmed Ghailani was found guilty of conspiracy for the role he played in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Ghailani, who had been charged with 285 counts was acquitted on all counts except the count of conspiracy.&… Read full post »

Rich Whitney (right) rallying supporters outside of ABC7 Chicago studio as the League of Women Voters, a civic organization committed to informing voters, excludes IL voters from hearing from Whitney, an established Green Party candidate for governor of Illinois. | Photo by Kevin Gosztola

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Candidate for CA Governor, Laura Wells, is arrested Tuesday night after trying to attend a debate she was excluded from. by Polidoc Productions

 

* Babette Hogan of Polidoc Productions contributed to this report.

 

A candidate for governor gets arrested for disorderly conduct for di… Read full post »

Opportunistic politicians can bathe in excessive amounts of corporate money in this election. That's, for the most part, thanks to the Citizens United v. FEC decision that has many leaders wary about what campaign financing they can and cannot get away with. | Photo by elycefeliz

 

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On the Metro, as I was leaving downtown D.C., I saw a few individuals wearing United Auto Workers T-shirts. Being a journalist, I was curious about what any of them might have thought about the "One Nation Working Together" rally I was leaving. I asked the person closest to… Read full post »

Hundred activists sit in front of the White House demanding the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining be abolished. by Kevin Gosztola

 

*Update: I was working on a documentary in-production currently titled "Seriously Green."

*See end of article for video montage of events.

 

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A not very happy looking crowd of Tea Party protesters listening to a Member of Congress. Tea Party protest, March 21, 2010, U.S. House of Representatives. By theqspeaks

 

 

The media's legitimization of fringe lunatic Terry Jones last week, the man with a history of actions only peo… Read full post »

 

 

 

 Photo by cliff1066

 

 

Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for the New York Times, writes of the “healers of 9/11” and how Susan Retik, a Jewish woman “has pursued perhaps the most unexpected and inspiring American response to the 9/11 attacks… Read full post »

 

 

 

A good amount of documentation on the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees or “terror suspects.” And, a new study provides even more revelations on the involvement of physicians making it increasingly clear that medical… Read full post »

 

 

 

One hundred days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded creating the worst environmental disaster in the world’s history, those who live down along the Gulf coast in the areas that have been most impacted are standing strong and reminding the world that, while… Read full post »

 

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cecilio M. Ricardo Jr.) http://www.army.mil by The U.S. Military

 

Classified information on the war in Afghanistan has been released by three major media sourc… Read full post »

 

 

Nearly sixty days after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed eleven workers, injured seventeen others and created an oil gusher that has been spewing black clouds of oil ever since, President Obama delivered an Oval Office address with the hope of stemming… Read full post »

 ***Welcome to a post that will be updated constantly throughout the weekend. The following is the story of an 81-year old who lost a large portion of her retirement savings during the financial collapse. She tells her story and explains why Americans must take on the banks in the Showdown in… Read full post »

 

 

 

 In less than two hours, one of the most important social and political events in the history of the fight for LGBT equality will begin. A march in D.C., a culmination of a weekend of breakout sessions, trainings, breakfasts, dinners, will take off… Read full post »

 See Part 2 --- Visions of a Future That Isn't Defined by G20 Summits

 

Update: What's a Sonic Cannon? 

 

News reports from the ground at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh are giving the impression that there is… Read full post »

The blog, Think Progress, has put together a good post on a recent Detroit premiere of Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story," which details how Moore and the press were essentially banned from attending because the theatre was owned by the auto company.

 

 

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Who knows what Jeremy Thomas, the producer of Creation a film on Charles Darwin’s life, has and has not done to find a distributor in the U.S. He may have not shopped around enough, but/… Read full post »

 

 

 Flickr photo by NESRI

In a primetime speech that had been highly anticipated, Obama made it clear that it was time to stop the bickering and get the job done. He addressed some of the lies and myths Republicans had been spreading and he explained why… Read full post »

Days ago, an ethics group known as Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) produced a report titled, “Aiding Torture,” that has been, for the most part, ignored by American news media. The report concludes that “health professionals participated at every stage in the development/… Read full post »

 Flickr Photo by bigtomisin

The death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy sends a ripple through the media. Torture discussions and debates on health care disinformation will stop momentarily. Front pages of newspapers and the cover pages will devote space for reflection and rightfully so.

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 *It's truly been wonderful to spend all weekend listening to music from Woodstock and continuously read comments on my post. Thank you everyone for making this such a great commemoration of a great counterculture event in American history. Peace. 

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