56 days ago by Rob

by LAURA CARLSEN Excerpt: The private and public sector promoters of war reap hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds. They grow stronger as their lobbyists buy off politicians with campaign donations and the Defense Department assures itself a lion’s share of taxpayer dollars. Peace is thei ...

106 days ago by reciferesiste

Em 27 de outubro de 2006 Brad foi atingido nas barricadas da insurreição popular de Oaxaca no México. Não por acaso ele estava lá. Brad Will fazia parte da rede Indymedia e chegou no país no início do mês de Outubro para acompanhar as mobilizações em torno da greve de professores que foi o estopim d ...

109 days ago by Rob

“Both Calderón and Obama, in slapping the open wounds of Mexico with weapons and cash, are disastrously ignoring primary causes, the root and branch of drug trade and corruption—the booming drug demand in the US, the decimation of Mexican employment, and a spike in violence due to an over-enforced b ...

140 days ago by Rob

By Kristen Gwynne | Sourced from AlterNet September 23rd, 2011 After a decade of unjust marijuana arrests, Raymond Kelly has finally issued a memo to New York City police, ordering them to end the illegal stop-and-frisk procedures that resulted in the arrests of so many young black and Latino youths ...

144 days ago by Rob

Quote from the excellent piece written by James Jordan, National Co-Coordinator for the Alliance for Global Justice (published September 6th in Upside Down World): “US intervention in Colombia has caused more problems than it has helped and the FTA would only make things worse. Recent investigations ...

155 days ago by Rob

We demand effective policies to replace those of the Bush and Obama Administrations. Brad Will’s murder in broad daylight, his likely murderers identified by witnesses and in documentary evidence, should have resulted – if there were real law enforcement cooperation between the USG and the Mexican G ...

213 days ago by Rob

Good thing that Colombian security officers are training Mexican anti-narcotics squads. (Try to ignore Juan Forerro’s typical parroting of ‘drug war’ boosters’ narrative.) Death and Drugs in Colombia, New York Review of Books, June 23, 2011 by Daniel Wilkinson Quote: “Paramilitaries also confessed t ...

274 days ago by TAZ

BRAD – Una noche màs en las Barricadas BRAD – Une nuit de plus dans les Barricades Les témoignages de Brad Will, journaliste pour Indymedia, nous mènent sur les champs de la lutte sociale à travers le monde. De Seattle à Prague, en passant par Fortaleza, Brad poursuit son combat… jusqu’à son assassi ...