Al Jazeera journalists quit channel citing bias on Syria coverage [video]
Russia Today
March 13, 2012
Qatar’s aggressive stance towards Assad has led to a string of resignations at the country’s al-Jazeera TV news channel. Those who left describe bias at the station which they say has become a tool to target the Syrian regime. RT’s Paula Slier describes those accusations.
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Apologies fail as Afghans demand troops out [video]
Russia Today
March 13, 2012
The US has apologised for the killing spree incident and the unnamed 38-year-old staff sergeant is under arrest, being held at an undisclosed location. The shooting has severely strained relations between Afghans and foreign forces – with anti-American rallies reflecting widespread fury.
RT’s Gayane Chichakyan reports the patience of the Afghan people may well be running out.
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The Traitor is the Plague
March 8, 2012
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Image: Traitors from around the world: 1. Moncef Marzouki, Tunisia, 2. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia, 3. Alexey Navalny, Russia, 4. Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia 5. Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt 6. Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand 7. Mustafa Abdul Jalil (shaking hands with France’s Nicolas Sarkozy), Libya 8. Mahmoud Jibril, Libya 9. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar. (click on image to enlarge)
The Front – Episode 185: Front Lines in the War on Humanity [audio]
The Front
2/23/12 – Tonight on The Front: New World Order News – The Nazificatition of US; Big Brother News – As we move to WW3 Hollywood and the Pentagon team up in an Act of Valor by throat gagging and blinding us with nationalism. Health News – The easiest way to die in America is to receive medical care from medical professionals. This isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact. Police State News – Know your rights when it comes to search and seizure. Plus, a story of 4 people, three tasers, and a pistol whipping. WARNING: Show content may change without notice.
Teacher Arrested for Declining to Sit Down by Liberty County Sheriff’s [video]
YouTube – TheCopBlock
March 5, 2012
I went with my girlfriend to the DMV to renew our driver’s licenses. We got to the office, waited in line, picked up the renewal forms and filled them out. While we were waiting to go back in a lady came into the office, I offered and gave her my seat. At that point a worker from the DMV who had been outside at her car came into the office where we were, began shouting at me telling me that, “sit down.” She then informed me that the fire marshal would, “shut the place down” if I didn’t sit down. I then asked her to please show me any written guidelines, policies, or procedures that required customers of the DMV to be seated at all times. She then left the office without saying a word.
Less than a minute later another customer went in and I took their seat. I sat there for about five minutes when I was approached by four detectives who forced me outside when I began to video.
Read more at: http://copblock.org/teacher-arrested-for-declining-to-sit
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[hat tip: The Front]
Kony 2012: Wrapping Imperialiam in “Activism”
Youth Movement Promotes US Military Presence in Central Africa.
Nile Bowie
NileBowie.blogspot.com
March 8, 2012
Invisible Children has partnered with two other organizations, Resolve and Digitaria, to create the LRA Crisis Tracker, a digital crisis-mapping platform that broadcasts attacks allegedly committed by the LRA. On its list of corporate sponsors, Resolve lists Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee. Digitaria’s website boasts commercial clients such as CBS, FOX, MTV, ESPN, Adidas, NFL, Qualcomm, NBC, National Geographic, Hasbro and Warner Brothers. While KONY 2012 attempts to portray itself as an indigenous activist movement bent on bringing justice to African children, its parent organization is affiliated with the upper echelon of the US corporate media and a network of foundation-funded pro-war civil society groups with a long history of fomenting pro-US regime change under the banner of democratic institution building. 
Through AFRICOM, the United States is seeking a foothold in the incredibly resource rich central African block in a further maneuver to aggregate regional hegemony over China. DRC is one of the world’s largest regions without an effectively functioning government. It contains vast deposits of diamonds, cobalt, copper, uranium, magnesium, and tin while producing over $1 billion in gold each year. It is entirely feasible that the US can considerably increase its presence in DRC under the pretext of capturing Joseph Kony. The US may further mobilize group forces, in addition to the use of predator drones and targeted missile strikes, inevitably killing civilians. In a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM will further its regional presence by “operating under the principle theatre-goal of combating terrorism”. During an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared AFRICOM’s guiding principle as protecting “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.The crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been documented in the past and they are truly despicable actions. Presently, the operations of the LRA have nearly dissolved and their presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult to verify. While the pro-war filmmakers behind KONY 2012 naively call for the US military to assert its place in the conflict, an independent fact finding mission would be far more effective in assessing the seriousness of the LRA threat in the present day.
Editor’s Note: Please also read about verified Western atrocities carried out in Uganda on behalf of the same corporate neo-imperial profiteering dressed up as “feel-good” activism.
Source – http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/03/kony-2012-wrapping-imperialiam-in.html
The Kony 2012 Phenomenon [video]
Press For Truth
March 8, 2012
Today we discuss the Kony 2012 viral marketing campaign which was launched by an organization called “Invisible Children” which calls for military intervention in Africa in order to arrest the leader of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) Joseph Kony. Millions of people all over the world are jumping on the Kony 2012 bandwagon and so today we ask the question Cui bono (who benefits?). Children in Africa? Or the military industrial complex?
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