river of omission - Rove's bud, Griffen for US Att'y
Congress on a roll again! rollin’, that is, down the River of OmissionGreg Palast:There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers pulled down the pants on...
View Articleborder deaths - by the numbers
Guardian:Around half of crossers who die are never identified.. . .Pina County, the region in which Ms Cano died, used to see a handful of deaths each year, an average of 14 in the 1990s. The average...
View Article100 children stranded - "a widespread humanitarian crisis"
AP:About 100 children were left stranded at schools and day care centres after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities in a raid on a factory where hundreds of illegal immigrants worked to...
View Articlenegotiation & hostages
Kaveh L Afrasiabi:High on Tehran's agenda [at the upcoming Baghdad meeting] is the issue of five Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US in Kurdistan. [Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas] Araghchi stated that...
View ArticleArundhati Roy
. . . is writing a new novel. Yay! Her take on what's happening in India is one seen taking place across the globe: "Here you see what’s happening. People are driven out of villages, driven out of the...
View Articlereaping Atoms for Peace
Guardian:The head of the Democratic Republic of Congo's dilapidated and poorly guarded nuclear reactor plant has been arrested on suspicion of illegally selling enriched uranium, following the...
View Articleinfo wars - free, the press
Independent Reporting Drew Army Coverup, Secrecy, DelaysOfficials in the US military, from the Pentagon on down, tried to thwart reporters for the LA Times who uncovered deaths and possible torture of...
View Article1966 - Levertov & Ochs - "a dreadful future for America"
Change a few proper nouns in these pieces, and they could just as easily be speaking to the Situation today, 40 years later—sobering testimony to our failures. Their future is our present. The children...
View ArticleUS Social Forum - Atlanta, GA, June 27 - July 1, 2007
Hope for the future, I'm convinced, lies in this sort of local, grassroots internationalist organizing: The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking bonanza, more than a...
View ArticleCynthia McKinney - "we must resist"
Cynthia McKinney speaking at a March 2 fundraiser for Pacifica Radio station KPFK, in LA:. . . in order to solve the massive problems this country now has, it can no longer be business as usual for a...
View Articlemedia & the courts
First Amendment Center:. . . consider the raft of instances lately in which judges or prosecutors have decided to step into newsrooms in one manner or another in pursuit of notes, interviews,...
View Articlelooters - creating poverty . . . & obscene wealth
James Petras, Meet the Global Ruling Class:. . . the Market, or better still, the US-IMF-World Bank orchestrated Washington Consensus was the driving force behind the rise of the Latin American...
View ArticleCOPA falls in court — "impermissibly vague and overbroad"
Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. in Philadelphia has found the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) unconstitutional on its face, with a ruling that puts the responsibility for keeping porn...
View ArticleJoanne Kyger - "The Insurgents" - "belligerent naked Indy stalks"
The InsurgentsSurging in like sea waves do Not a revolution not belligerencyBut an uprising rising up Of focused nameless opposition...
View ArticleRuby Rodriguez - another transgender murder
from the mailbox;A Nicaraguan transgender woman, Ruby Rodriguez, 24 years old, was murdered on Friday, March 16, 2007. Her body was found on the corner of Cesar Chavez and Indiana Streets in the...
View Article"there would have to be consequences" - ready, set . . .
Guardian:Tony Blair is pushing the United Nations to declare a no-fly zone over Darfur, enforced if necessary by the bombing of Sudanese military airfields used for raids on the province, the Guardian...
View ArticleEcuador, hostages & Columbian bodysnatchers
a collection of news & commentary links, but first a reminder from James Petras, writing in 2005 after Venezuela confronted Columbia over its covert recruitment of Venezuelan military figures in...
View Articlequick! before a Democrat's in the White House . . .
NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (IPS) - With the presidential race gathering momentum in the United States, a last ditch effort is being mounted to push through the controversial U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal,...
View Articledollars in the bars - "we're offering you competitive prison labor"
Capital demands growth.Vicky Pelaez, from "The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?"HISTORY OF PRISON LABOR IN THE UNITED STATESPrison labor has its roots in...
View ArticleDell's history of prison labor - the stain remains
A Public Relations spokesoid from Dell stopped by Constellations today to leave a response to Monday's the dollars in the bars - "we're offering you competitive prison labor" post. The note is a...
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Aimé Césaire
And always this misdeal to negotiate step by stepstuck as I am with inventing each waterhole.from "Banal,"Noria, 1976, in Collected Poetry (Cal, 1983)1913-2008 (obit)One of the 20th Century's major...
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Henry Grimes & Roscoe Mitchell - Berkeley Oct 15, 2010
Henry Grimes made a very special appearance at UC Berkeley's CNMAT (which used to be the home of Tom Buckner's 1750 Arch St), performing two sets of free improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell to an...
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Henry Grimes & Roscoe Mitchell - more photos
Here are some more shots from the duets in Berkeley on the 15th. Craig M. at Memory Select: Avant-jazz radio has a nice write-up. Mitchell performed on alto, bass & soprano saxophones; Grimes on...
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Bobby Bradford
The Master at work September 28, 2014The Blue Whale, Los Angeles Angel City Jazz Festival
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