February 2012
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Bahrain Protesters Attacked; US Assisting Regime... →
Bahraini regime forces attacked peaceful protesters amid a 10-day sit-in protest held near the capital. Meanwhile, activists accused the United States of assisting regime forces in their crackdown. The activists have published photos that apparently show the US troops training Bahraini regime forces in their crackdown on protests. Bahrain hosts the US Fifth Fleet, and is among the Gulf countries...
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“The important thing is for the people to realise through their struggle that the...”
– Communist Party of Greece (KKE), February 6, 2012
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'Israel aiding terror group to kill Iran... →
US officials say the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists have been carried out by an Iranian opposition group with logistical and financial support from the Mossad, NBC News reported Thursday. The report was based on a testimony by one of Iranian Ayotollah Ali Khamenei’s senior advisers who detailed the intimate relationship between Israel and the opposition group MEK, which...
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NYPD must pay $15 million for illegally arresting... →
For almost 30 years — from 1983 to 2012 — the New York Police Department went about arresting people under laws that state and federal courts had long declared unconstitutional, cuffing and booking almost 22,000 people. In 2010, federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin finally held them in contempt of court. Yesterday, she signed an order approving what is effectively their punishment: a $15 million...
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Once again, Russian Communists are pragmatic →
ftm-communist: Head of the KPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) Gennady Zyuganov has suggested another reasonable reform to the governing system in Russia: a combination of the roles of president and prime minister - basically a completely parliamentary system without the ceremonial presidental role (which wasn’t all that ceremonial when Putin held that spot). This would help Russia...
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The Stockholm Syndrome of Occupy (or yet another... →
By Carlos A. Rivera-Jones Ever since the Oakland Commune came into national conciousness with their successful strike in November, liberals who initially became infatuated with OWS as a possible liberal Tea Party have been launching increasingly virulent attacks against OWS, and in particular, its most militant element. Naomi Wolf was perhaps the first notorious salvo of the liberal...
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ALBA countries join chorus condemning 'contras'... →
In a statement issued during the eleventh summit of the organization, the nine members of the ALBA bloc (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) rejected on Sunday the “systematic policy of interference and destabilization” that seeks to “impose by force on the Syrian people a regime change.” The ALBA resolution condemns the “acts of armed violence that...
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Anti-Occupy Nashville bills headed for floor vote →
NASHVILLE (AP) — Lawmakers frustrated with Occupy Nashville tents on the Capitol complex are taking action to remove them by rapidly moving legislation to the floor of both chambers. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted 14-2 to approve the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Eric Watson of Cleveland, the panel’s chairman. Later in the day, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the...
Feb 8th
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Occupy Newark faces eviction →
Protesters living inside a downtown park in Newark, N.J., for nearly two months have been instructed to clear out by Thursday night, a move that could end one of the few remaining Occupy Wall Street encampments in the U.S. Unlike most of the protest camps elsewhere, activists in Newark had received permission from the Municipal Council to live inside Military Park. But a letter delivered Tuesday...
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Pentagon draws up plans for military intervention... →
The defence department has for several weeks been planning a range of US actions, from dealing with a flood of refugees and the provision of medical relief to a direct military assault on Syria. Included in the planning is intervention coordinated with allies such as Turkey and other countries in Nato. Administration officials said the “internal review” was at the initiative of the...
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Egyptian Workers Call on U.S. Workers To Stand in... →
The statement below was drafted by Egyptian labor activists. They are seeking signatures from US labor activists.Please sign on below,  or email acpollack2@juno.com.  With a general strike by Egyptian workers, students and allies planned for February 11th, a wide distribution and support for this statement will send a clear signal to the Egyptian military regime that we will not stand for any...
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Press-free NATO summit? Filming cops on the street... →
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“We must always be political. I think that culture, for example is always very...”
– Kwame Ture “Pan-Africanism — Land and Power” (via hatshepsutspeaks)
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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court... →
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year. The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that limited marriage to one man and one woman, violated the U.S. Constitution. The architects of...
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