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Chomsky: The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:23 — Dave Culver

  • Like many other oppressive countries, Israel's chief tools of control are through humiliation, degradation and terror.
  • In Palestine, Dignity and Violence

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet

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AlterNet Editor's Note: This article is adapted from the Edward W. Said lecture given by Noam Chomsky in London on March 18, 2013.

April 2, 2013  |  The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward him in ragged clothes.

"I noticed something that I will never forget for as long as I live," Mankell says. "I looked at his feet. He had no shoes. Instead he had painted shoes on his feet. He had used the colors in the ground and in the roots to replace his shoes. He had come up with a way to keep his dignity."

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In Palestine, Dignity and Violence, Noam Chomsky, Truthout

Contempt for the worthless victims is no small part of the barrier to achieving a settlement with at least a modicum of justice and respect for human dignity and rights. It's not beyond imagination that the barrier can be overcome by dedicated work, as has been done elsewhere.

 

 

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David Horsey | Off with the IRS' Head / www.trbimg.com

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:38 — Dave Culver

 

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Keeping the Government's Secrets

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 15:08 — Dave Culver
  • “The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government.... The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people.” —‑U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (6/30/71)
  • Official/press collusion to keep public uninformed
  • An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press

Steve Rendall, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

 

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Secrets and censorship, a redacted CIA document--Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

 

April 1, 2013 | Journalism is supposed to hold power to account. That’s the principle implicit in the U.S. Constitution’s singling out a free press for protection.

 

If that principle were respected, the Washington Post’s admission (2/6/13) that it and “several news organizations” made a deal with the White House to withhold the news that the U.S. has a drone base in Saudi Arabia would have been a red flag, triggering widespread discussion of media ethics.

 

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An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press, William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

 

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An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 19:02 — Dave Culver

  • It's funny to me that the Associated Press is nailing itself to a cross because you've been victimized by the same laws, politicians and tide of history you've either blissfully ignored or gleefully promoted for so many years.
  • The 'Undo-Everything' Congress: What the Press Doesn't See

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 |Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, rose up raging on Monday afternoon and threw a bag of live rats over the White House fence. To wit:

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters , general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

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The 'Undo-Everything' Congress: What the Press Doesn't See, Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson, The Nation

  • The hard-right wing exerts an oversized influence on our gridlocked Congress, thanks in part to a Beltway media enamored of them.
  • More BS About 'Both Sides'

 

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Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 15:14 — Dave Culver

  • Thanks to the drug war, police have much more incentive to go after drug crimes than more heinous crimes.
  • How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'
  • The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'

Kristen Gwynnne, AlterNet

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May 8, 2013  |  Earlier this year, men wearing black ski masks whipped out their guns and raided the home of 62-year-old Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient and activist in Florida. They seized 23 of her plants, two of which were mature enough to be used for her medicine. Police officers with the Manatee County Sheriff's Department, the team of armed men, made no arrests, but later charged Jordan and her husband with marijuana cultivation. A district attorney later dropped the case.

In Colorado this year, a 13-person SWAT raid on two medical marijuana users began with a kicked-in door and a flash bang grenade.

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How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon' Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic 

  • Over the past half- century, lawmakers have refused to fund public defenders' offices adequately. And, as it has become more conservative since 1963, the Supreme Court has refused to force them to do so.
  • The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'

The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All' Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company

  • Bill reports on the hypocrisy of “justice for all” in a society where billions are squandered for a war born in fraud while the poor are pushed aside. 
  • The next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance - remember: it's a lie. A whopper of a lie.
  • The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright
 
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Jack Ohman | Obstacle Course / www.usnews.com

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 08:12 — Dave Culver

 

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