Category: Represent Our Resistance

I cannot end this article without commenting on Chris Hedges� article, �The Cancer in Occupy,� (Truthdig, February 6, 2012). I do not agree with all of its points or with Hedges� uncompromising stand on non-violence as a strategy for confronting the criminals of Wall Street, but I do agree – there is a �cancer� in…

Others, Rosa Luxemburg continues, with �weak nerves� might not worry� But as far as I�m concerned, such a mode of operation – with the word �little bird� being thrown in on top of everything – to me that�s an insult, to put it mildly. Add to that the crass, heavy-handed instructions: Do such-and-such with Adolf…

I had not read anything written about or by Gilbert, nor had I listened or read an interview he had given the past. I expected a typical self-aggrandizing narrative in which the passive reader encounters the �greatness� of the man David Gilbert and his �legendary� role in piecing together pipes and wires, sneaking here, passing…

Children and young adults in the U.S. do not need an introduction into the scheming and conniving ways of someone like Iago. What is it that our children and young people are to learn from reading the words of a liar who hates his superior – a Moor! – so much that he plots to…

The supremacy of the confession has its origins in Europe when charges and evidence were withheld from the �criminal� and the public. The rights of authority trumped the rights of citizens. �Knowledge was the absolute privilege of the prosecution,� philosopher Michel Foucault explains, and �truth was the right and the exclusive power of the sovereign…

While many citizens have turned to alternative and particularly progressive news sites, online news magazines such as ours, or Truthout or Op-Ed News, I encounter citizens who not only have never heard of these sites, and knowing less is better than knowing more. For many citizens in the U.S., reality became too much to endure,…

Surveillance technology, developed and deployed to subdue the Philippine population, was further fined tuned to subdue Brown, Black, and Indigenous populations in the Americas. A USAF predator drone was already used in the U.S. to aide the local police force arrest members of a North Dakota family who �allegedly wouldn’t give back three cows and…

The U.S. continued the legalized execution of its citizens this year. In our name and for our safety, Troy Davis, whom many believed innocent, was murdered. Seven of the nine who testified against him, recanted. Coercion! The U.S. injustice system, its practitioners, gathered affidavits of lies and forced an innocent man to serve 20 years…

In Memory of Martina Correia Here is Michael Parenti commenting on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement, November 9, 2011, in “Occupy America,” published at CommonDreams.org: I recall learning about the Palestinians and their struggle because young Black Americans, Black Panthers to be exact, traveled to Palestine in the early 70s to share their experiences…

The corporate world, they tell us, is our world! No alternatives! The future! The corporate world improves lives and is good for Mother Earth! But at what cost to our lives and the planet? What cost to human, life rights? We are at war with an entity – not a person! We are at war…