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It’s already started. The Chicago police are snatching and arresting people who have come to Chicago to protest the NATO Summit.
Don’t expect to get clear news from the corporate media. This site will continue to be updated over the weekend as news and views comes in from the Chicago front. For the most part–such as the mass nurse’s rally–the demonstrations are progressing peacefully. more…
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When I was 17 (1959), Cuba won its Independence. Cuba was a nation under a brutal dictatorship allied to the US and abetted by corporate and Mafia influence.
I had joined the Army in 1959 and was serving in the 101st Airborne Division. We were designated and trained as the STRAC-I unit of the US military for instant air transport to anywhere in the world. more…
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I guess I’m jaded… I spent enough time in the Old South (1959-65), including a hell-hole rock-quarry, chain-gang, to give me a bitter taste as to who and what they are: rabid racist dogs (at least many of those who own and police the place).
After another eight years in the “new” South (2001-09), it was clear to me that one need not scratch the surface far to find that ol’ redneck clay still there. more…
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When was the last time you heard of a terrorist conspiracy case that did not include a police agent or a paid “confidential informant” (CI), and wasn’t the result of a “sting operation”?
The latest such FBI-police op in the news is that of the so-called Cleveland Six (which also conveniently targets that city’s Occupy movement). No doubt their intent. more…
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Born in the summer of ‘42, four years in front of the Baby Boomer generation, has made for an interesting journey. In ’59 at 17 I joined the US Army, 101st Airborne, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.
With a 9th grade education, I completed my GED in the Army. When I joined, Eisenhower was president, when I came out, Kennedy. more…
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012, will be a special cause for the 99% to rally across America in celebration of International Workers’ Day. By all means, Google your own location for what’s happening where.
For Detroit, where this site is home, feel free to join workers, women, immigrants and the rights of democracy for all to assemble, march and rally at the locations and time most convenient for you:
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Disclosure: This commentary comes from both my political and scientific training. Politically, I consider myself a revolutionary, democratic socialist. I am also a doctor of psychology (PsyD). Make of it as you will…
First of all, I believe that as a social species we’re born conservative. We start out as squalling, demanding infants totally focused on our own needs, wants and desires. As we grow, we adapt to our given culture. more…
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Ahh, how do fundamentalist Christians, the Klan and its modern equivalent, the Tea-Party, yearn for the old days…
Jasmine Thar, 16...
Jasmine Thar and Trayvon Martin just don’t have that same punch as it used to be when the local newspaper would openly advertise a Sunday after-church barbeque and lynching. more…
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My first experience with the US Secret Service was on a weekend in April, 1961, Nashville, Tennessee. Me and a fellow soldier in the 101st Airborne from Ft. Campbell, KY, were in town spending our tax refund checks…a windfall back then. We were 18.
Nick Medvecky, 17 (1960)...
After checking into a Holiday Inn with a bottle of Ten High bourbon whiskey, a pint of Sloe Gin and a rent-a-girl, we soon discovered a raging party on the floor above us. more…
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There are 10 million Palestinians in the world. Some 70% of them (7,450,000) are refugees and displaced persons under the care, in part, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
UNRWA health clinic...
To listen to some of the national-race arguments: Palestinians are desert Arabs who wandered into Judea and Samaria after the Romans dispersed most of the Jews into the Euro-Diaspora some 2,000 years ago.
Thus the catchy motto: “A land without a people for a people without a land.” more…
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