Jan
21
Madrid riot police have cleared Plaza de Neptune of protesters, with about 200 officers securing the surrounding blocks. At least 60 people have been injured and 26 arrested as police used batons and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Local emergency services have confirmed that at least 60 people, including eight policemen, were injured in …
Dec
03
David Malone golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com author of The Debt Generation, http gives the opening of his talk in Lancaster on November 24th, 2010 . It includes a short introduction by Gina Dowding, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood. David asks why there was never any real debate about bailing out the banks during the financial …
Nov
19
Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says theorist Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forward — from the cultural revolution of the ’60s to recent revelations in the field of neuroscience — has also helped erode trust in the tools of democracy. As he says, “What went right …
Jun
12
The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited to the school by the College Republicans. Gilchrist and student organizer …
May
25
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Apr
27
The real story behind the ongoing labor strikes started long before Scott Walker’s battle with public employees. Thom explains how the ‘Starve the Beast’ strategy has been killing democracy in the US for more than 30 years. Then, nearly a quarter of American homeowners are upside down on their mortgages. When will the nation bail …
Apr
14
www.peoplestandup.ca Canada’s democracy erodes….. At a time when Arabs risk life and limb for political freedoms, Canadians seem largely apathetic about the erosion of their democracy. On Friday, March 25, 2011, the minority Stephen Harper government fell on a confidence motion by a 156-145 vote. Speaking to the motion, Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff attacked the …
Nov
15
December 10, 1993 www.amazon.com Watch the full lecture: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is a Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1975. In its own words, it was established to “promote the common interests of the [Western] hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, …
Oct
10
Democracy NOW! – DN! The banking industry’s handling of home foreclosures is coming under increasing scrutiny after revelations that employees at several lenders had approved thousands of foreclosure affidavits and other documents without proper vetting. The banking giant JP Morgan Chase has suspended some 56000 foreclosures after admitting some may have been authorized without proper …
Oct
02
Behind India’s economic boom are states selling out their poor, arming and funding private militias to kill indigenous tribal people, and burn and forcibly evacuate villages to clear land for mining corporations, selling their rivers, implementing draconian laws against speaking out. Renowned physician-activist Binayak Sen helping the poor gets life sentence on December 24th, 2010, …