Europe: Will the Euro crisis deal a fatal blow to the EU?
The Euro crisis is putting the very survival of the European Union at risk. Greece and Ireland debt problems were the first one to emerge, but now it is the turn of Italy and Spain to clean up their balance sheets. The two healthier economies of the union, Germany and France are now considering some […]
Occupy Movement: Re-energized and Marching
Today thousands of occupy Wall Street movement’s activists are marching and not camping any longer. After the police attack on the camps last week, ordered by Major Bloomberg and deemed illegal by a judge, the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) movement must either change its strategy, after two months, or it will lose its momentum. The […]
Supreme Court Ruling On GPS Use By Police: George Orwell Rising
By Ron Steinman In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that some legal experts are calling the most important Fourth Amendment case in years. It involves the use by police who placed an unauthorized GPS device on a suspect’s car to track said suspect’s movements. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches […]
Occupation Nation: Ritual Arrests and Candle Light Vigils. What Next?
Feature Photo by Shasta McBride I learned of the occupation of Washington D.C. about six months ago through a video which featured Ted Rall; the syndicated columnist, political cartoonist, and author of The Anti-American Manifesto. I had read this book a few months earlier, immediately after publication, and, on the basis of what he had […]
October 15: Unite for Global Change!
Our people’s democracy movement is about to get three mighty boosts: On October 6, a few thousand of us will swarm the capital and #OCCUPYDC. Find out the plan at october2011.org On October 15th, the movement goes global … check it out at 15october.net On October 15th people from all over the world will take […]
