The Occupy Movement: When the Other Shoe Drops
By Jim Smith
Free Venice Beachhead (Venice, California)
December 2011
http://www.freevenice.org/Beachhead-2011/Dec2011/Beachhead-color.pdf
Capitalism is doomed. The aged system has been increasingly unable to maintain people’s living standards since the 1970s. And now, everyone knows it.
Thanks to the Occupy movement, the viability of an economic system based on greed and survival of the fittest has been called into question. And [...]
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Depleted Uranium strikes friends and foes alike in Libya
By Karl Abrams
High in the skies of Libya, NATO jets, equipped with uranium bullets and uranium-tipped missiles, are probably being used to assist Libyan rebels in toppling the regime of Muammar Gaddafy.
France, Great Britain and the US regularly employ concrete bunker-busting uranium weapons and have consistently blocked UN proposals to ban them. They won’t admit [...]
WikiLeaks and Local Leaks
By Jim Smith
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley
Silly Hillary. Did she really think the internet was a safe place for her deepest, darkest secrets? She’s not alone. The geniuses of the military end of the Empire also put its secrets – massacres in Iraq and [...]
Sinking Arizona
By Jim Smith
Oh Arizona, where the elderly go to die
a Death’s Head has gripped your state.
Immigrants raise their eyes and ask why
they must suffer such a criminal’s fate.
Sunstroke has come early to Arizona this year, or so it would seem. The Anglo majority in the Arizona government has tyrannized the Latino minority in ways that [...]
Capitalism is the cause of climate illness! Global Movement begins the cure!
By Ron Ridenour
Presenting the People’s Agreement—“mother earth does not belong to us, we belong to it”—worldwide was the first act of the Global People’s Movement for Mother Earth. This was carried out in May by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales and representative activists from five continents.
Representing 35,000 people from 147 countries, they presented the conclusions of [...]
The Whiff of Fascism
By Jim Smith
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.” –Edmund Burke
Alarm bells are sounding throughout the country over the widespread disruptions of congressional town halls on health care. Is it possible that we are seeing the beginnings of a mass fascist movement [...]
Universal Health Care Versus the Corporations
By Jim Smith
No matter what happens in Congress this year, the fight for real health care reform is just beginning. This year we are likely to see a bill that only the health insurance corporations can love. It will give them windfall profits by creating a true monopoly where everyone in the country is forced [...]