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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan
Submitted by truth on Wed, 2008-03-12 13:39.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:
Homelessness Marathon
Submitted by truth on Wed, 2008-02-20 11:46.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
BURN BABY BURN – The California Celebrity Fires
Submitted by truth on Fri, 2007-11-02 21:18.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%
Support Free Speech TV: Keep Independent Media Alive!
Submitted by truth on Fri, 2007-10-12 13:41.
Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez Speaks to the Vital Role Each of Us Plays in Keeping Independent Media Alive!
Keynote: Scott Ritter - Crisis in US-Iranian Relations
Submitted by truth on Thu, 2007-09-27 12:33.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.
Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions? Part 1 of 2
Submitted by truth on Mon, 2007-09-03 07:20.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]
As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
Submitted by truth on Mon, 2007-08-27 12:46.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
Targeting Iran (Book Review)
Submitted by truth on Wed, 2007-08-08 14:53.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.

