Democracy Now! Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid icon, has died at the age of 90. In 1984 Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting to end white minority rule in South Africa. After the fall of apartheid, Archbishop Tutu chaired the South African Truth and… Continue reading
Democracy Now! NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges discuss mass surveillance, government secrecy, Internet freedom and U.S. attempts to extradite and prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. They spoke together on a panel moderated by Amy Goodman at the virtual War on Terror film… Continue reading
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Darryl Robert Schoon is a financial analyst famous for having predicted the 2008 market crash. He is author of Light in a Dark Place: The Prison Years, Time of the Vulture, Report to the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Is God Confused?, and The Way… Continue reading
Issued on: 24/12/2021 – 07:55 Text by: NEWS WIRES (france24.com) Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackdown at another university earlier this week.ADVERTISING A 6.4-metre (20… Continue reading
We offer fine writing, mind-opening ideas and intriguing videos as a gift, free to all. We believe that generosity and open-mindedness are essential to our shared future: this belief infuses our work at Aeon. A riot on Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd (St Petersburg) on 17 July 1917 after troops of… Continue reading
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to media at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2021. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Images Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed Sen. Joe Manchin’s “lack of integrity.” The Squad saw through it all along. Ryan Grim, Sara SirotaDecember 20 2021, 4:22 p.m. (TheIntercept.com) IT STARTED AS an… Continue reading
Netflix Based on real events that haven’t happened – yet. Don’t Look Up in select theaters December 10 and on Netflix December 24. DON’T LOOK UP tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia What his first biographer, James Redpath, called John Brown‘s last speech was delivered on November 2, 1859, at his sentencing, in a packed courtroom of whites in Charles Town, Virginia, after his conviction for murder, treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, and inciting a slave insurrection.[2]: 340 According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the speech’s only equal in… Continue reading
Here’s the link to send a prepared email to all the supervisors, you can also personalize your message: Care Not Cops! Stand Up For The Tenderloin! – Action Network See the “TAKE ACTION” box below for tweeting your message EMERGENCY: Board of Supervisors Special Hearing December 23 at 2pm! On Friday December 17th,… Continue reading
You might think of it as a philosophy for turning away from the world, but ancient Stoics took a stand against tyranny A seated activist from the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion faces the Carabinieri police in the middle of Via Ventiquattro Maggio in central Rome to protest against the G20… Continue reading
