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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan featured testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what has been really happening day in and day out, on the ground. Click the links below to watch the Winter Soldier Hearings:

Streaming videos for this event are now available on www.freespeech.org.

WHAT IS THE HOMELESSNESS MARATHON?
February 20th and 21st, 2008 airing from 7pm EST to 9am EST

By Greg Palast; Posted on ZNet

What color is your disaster? It makes a difference. A life and death difference.

Dig:

Population of San Diego fire evacuation zone: 500,000
Population of the New Orleans flood evacuation zone: 500,000

White folk as a % of evacuees, San Diego: 66%
Black folk as % of evacuees, New Orleans: 67%

A Message from Amy Goodman

Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez Speaks to the Vital Role Each of Us Plays in Keeping Independent Media Alive!

Former UN Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the crisis in US-Iranian relations in a talk at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY. Watch this keynote video here.

by Michael Barker; September 02, 2007 Published on ZNet

To date capitalists have financially supported two types of revolution: they have funded the neoliberal revolution to “take the risk out of democracy”,[1] and they have supported/hijacked popular revolutions (or in some cases manufactured ‘revolutions’) in countries of geostrategic importance (i.e. in counties where regime change is beneficial to transnational capitalism).[2]

By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY Published: August 26, 2007 on New York Times
China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store. No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo. Read More from New York Times

by Khatchig Mouradian; August 07, 2007 Published on ZNet
“Do not ask about the harvest; ask about the plowing,” says the Chinese proverb. In Targeting Iran, award-winning journalist David Barsamian follows that advice. He asks his interviewees, Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari, about all the plowing and planting that culminated in the demonization of Iran by the U.S. since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and vice versa.