By Lew Brown In May of 2010 blogger Pamela Geller, a particularly strident former editor of the New York Daily News and Associate Publisher of rich boy local rag the New York Observer began to shrilly complain, about the renovation of a defunct factory a couple of blocks away from the stinking hole that still [...]
By Will Shonbrun The controversy over a Muslim community center and mosque being constructed in close proximity to the WTC’s “Ground Zero” is an exercise in bigoted illogic. The argument goes: It was people of the Muslim faith that perpetrated the horrific murders of thousands and therefore a mosque near that site is an affront [...]
By Lew Brown Yesterday in the media, amidst a backwash of junk food stories regaling us with the harrowing experience of Tila Tequila at an Insane Clown Posse concert, more outrage over a planned Mosque somewhere in the general neighborhood of the eternal hole in the ground we call “Ground Zero”, Pakistani weather reports and [...]
By Jesse Strecker An investigative report released this month by In These Times details how Arizona’s anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law not only promises dramatic financial benefits for the private prison industry, but that lobbyists and administrators working for private prison corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Geo Group, played substantial parts in [...]
Air Force Document Reveals Ulterior Motives Against “anti-US governments” in Military Agreement with Columbia By Jesse Strecker While mainstream media outlets have granted plenty of airtime to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s decision to break relations with Colombia after the nation accused him of harboring ‘terrorists,’ few sources are reporting on the military buildup that is [...]
Over 3,000 members and guests of the San Francisco Bohemian Club met in the forest at their 2800 acre private redwood grove in Monte Rio California from July 16-August 1, 2010. Each day an off-the-record speech was given by an important socio-political individual. Below are the topics and speakers for Lakeside talks at the Bohemian [...]
Brian Murphy from Niagara University, Peter Phillips from Sonoma State, and Kristina Borjesson, author of “Into the Buzzsaw,” represented Project Censored at the National Peace Conference in Albany NY July 23-25. They presented a workshop entitled Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire. The presentation was attend by over 40 peace activists and [...]
By Dennis Bernstein July 27, 2010 The Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill Division, made famous by the videotaped beating of Rodney King almost two decades ago, has been caught in action again – this time on a cell-phone video – breaking up a family birthday party in Pacoima, California. The Baro family of Mexican immigrants [...]
Go Local vs. Super-sized Chains By Will Shonbrun On July 29 the Rohnert Park City Council will decide if it will approve a proposal by Wal-Mart to expand its Rohnert park store by more than 40,000 square feet, becoming a super center selling both groceries and retail. Rohnert Park’s Planning Commission voted to turn down [...]
Army Corps Caught Attacking Citizens Online Submitted by: Sandy Rosenthal In a sworn affidavit, Jon Donley, Editor of the online version of New Orleans’ leading newspaper, the Times Picayune, described questionable and possibly illegal behavior by about 20 individuals at the U.S Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District. The activity occurred for several years [...]
