Bradley Manning on Trial

Here is the conversations that Manning had with Lamo, which is being used against him in by the Government.

(02:35:46 PM) bradass87: was watching 15 detainees taken by the Iraqi Federal Police… for printing “anti-Iraqi literature”… the iraqi federal police wouldn’t cooperate with US forces, so i was instructed to investigate the matter, find out who the “bad guys” were, and how significant this was for the FPs… it turned out, they had printed a scholarly critique against PM Maliki… i had an interpreter read it for me… and when i found out that it was a benign political critique titled “Where did the money go?” and following the corruption trail within the PM’s cabinet… i immediately took that information and *ran* to the officer to explain what was going on… he didn’t want to hear any of it… he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees…

Ode to Christopher Hitchens

Many friends of Christophers gather to pay tribute to a quintessential English/American writer. Long live the Hitch.

Occupy San Diego at San Diego City Council

The people will be heard, despite the ineffective institutions, and will restore balance to collective decision making in our communities.

Greatest Video of All Time?

Powerful questions from a real man to a gang of thugs at Occupy Wall Street. "and I gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today..."

National Initiative for Democracy

The National Initiative does not change or eliminate Congress, the President, or the judicial system. Laws created by initiative must still stand up in the courts just like laws created by Congress. The National Initiative adds an additional check –– the People –– to our system of checks and balances, while setting up a working partnership between the People and their elected representatives

Direct Democracy - Voting in the workplace and for public policy

A new path forward, away from hierarchy, discrimination and representation.

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

Merging Karl Marx and Milton Friedman to create individual and cultural harmony.

What is an anarcho syndicalist?

Monty Python to the rescue again...

Life is about Money

We cant have the wretched controlling policy, you may as well throw muskets to the rabble...

Sign up if you disagree.

Beyond the Orwell Cliche

Christopher Hitchens and George Packer discuss Orwell in "Facing Unpleasant Facts" and "All Art Is Propaganda."

Steven Pinker critiques Rousseau, Locke and Descartes

To the End of Time

Why are the governments of the 
United States and Israel so intimately connected? This is at least part of the answer.

The Port Huron Statement

Alternatives to Helplessness

"The goals we have set are not realizable next month, or even next election -- but that fact justifies neither giving up altogether nor a determination to work only on immediate, direct, tangible problems. Both responses are a sign of helplessness, fearfulness of visions, refusal to hope, and tend to bring on the very conditions to be avoided. Fearing vision, we justify rhetoric or myopia. Fearing hope, we reinforce despair.

The first effort, then, should be to state a vision: what is the perimeter of human possibility in this epoch? This we have tried to do. The second effort, if we are to be politically responsible, is to evaluate the prospects for obtaining at least a substantial part of that vision in our epoch: what are the social forces that exist, or that must exist, if we are to be at all successful? And what role have we ourselves to play as a social force?"

What does the Matrix look like in Real Life?

Cyberwar and Social Justice

A bit of Levity

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