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Coming To An Inner-City Uprising Near You: The “Ultimate Riot Control Truck” Of The Future
Coming To An Inner-City Uprising Near You: The “Ultimate Riot Control Truck” Of The Future One upon a time, the benevolent future was supposed to bemuse with hoverboards, flying cars and interplanetary travel. Instead, according to the folks at Slovakia’s Bozena Riot Security Systems, the dystopian future has arrived, and it is made of armored plates […]
Politicians Are Now Making Plans in Case the Public Turns Against Them Violently
Politicians Are Now Making Plans in Case the Public Turns Against Them Violently (ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — As protests continue to break out all around the nation over President Donald Trump’s desire to scrap Obamacare, Politico reported Tuesday that many politicians are beginning to worry about their own personal safety — to the point where some are having private sessions to discuss the […]
Furious Environmentalists Vow Trump Will See “Wall Of Resistance Like He Never Imagined”
Furious Environmentalists Vow Trump Will See “Wall Of Resistance Like He Never Imagined” After Trump’s executive order to accelerate the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, angry environmental groups reacted quickly by denouncing Trump’s actions, and promising legal action and White House protests. “Donald Trump has been in office for four days, and he’s already […]
As Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting Illegal
As Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting Illegal (ANTIMEDIA) Indiana passed a bill on Wednesday that authorizes police officers to shut down highway protesting “by any means necessary.” S.B. 285, as it is known, obliges a public official to dispatch all available officers within 15 minutes of discovering any assembly of 10 or more […]
Protests in Mexico Push Country to Brink of Revolution and Nobody’s Talking About It
Protests in Mexico Push Country to Brink of Revolution and Nobody’s Talking About It (ANTIMEDIA) San Diego, CA — Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing neoliberal reforms to the country’s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation. The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on […]
Secret Bans, Secret Trials: The Canadian ‘No-Fly’ Lists
Secret Bans, Secret Trials: The Canadian ‘No-Fly’ Lists First in a series to help you participate in the federal consultation on national security. Protesters opposing Bill C-51 in Vancouver last year. Now they can tell the government what changes are needed. Jeremy Board, Creative Commons licensed. [Editor’s note: The federal government’s consultation on national security provides a rare […]
Fed Up With The Corruption: Mexico on Brink of Revolution
Fed Up With The Corruption: Mexico on Brink of Revolution (COMMONDREAMS) The Mexican government’s deadly crackdown on a teacher’s union protest has rattled the nation in recent days, as 200,000 doctors on Wednesday joined the ongoing national strike against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s neoliberal reforms. Anti-government sentiment is mounting after police forces opened fire on a teacher protest […]
Dangerous Situation: Venezuelan National Guard Assault Members Of The Press During Protests
Dangerous Situation: Venezuelan National Guard Assault Members Of The Press During Protests During Thursday’s protest over food in Caracas, chaos erupted after supermarket shoppers were told that regulated goods they had expected to be available would not be up for sale. In a sign of just how bad things have gotten, at least 19 journalists were attacked while […]
Welcome to 1984
Welcome to 1984 Protester Bob Bowes, of Somerville, Mass., displays an American flag featuring corporate logos outside a meeting of U.S. elites in Boston. (Steven Senne / AP) The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not […]
Defence industry poised for billion dollar profits from global riot ‘contagion’
Riot gear on sale at the 2015 Milipol security expo in Paris (Credit: IB Times) Defence industry poised for billion dollar profits from global riot ‘contagion’ Forecasts of relentless civil unrest in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia seen as massive ‘investment opportunity’ The next five years will see the international market for […]
May Day Mayhem – Discontent on the Continent
May Day Mayhem – Discontent on the Continent Europe’s Political Class Under Fire All over Europe not only religious and national holidays are observed, but also a socialist holiday, which we always thought was a bit strange – and in a way quite telling (as far as we know, there is no holiday celebrating the free market). […]
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS)
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS) German police use pepper spray against right-wing protestors during a demonstration in the town of Plauen, Germany, May 1, 2016 © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Thousands have taken to the streets globally to mark International Workers’ Day. In several European countries […]
Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400
Democracy in Action: Arrests at Capitol Building Protests Top 1,400 Via Twitter Protesters have made their voices heard in Washington D.C. Over the past week, more than 1,400 people were arrested at the Capitol for participating in the Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring movements. Members of Democracy Spring began protesting corporate financial influence in politics several weeks ago. […]
“Nuit Debout” – Have Protests in France Turned Into a Larger Movement?
“Nuit Debout” – Have Protests in France Turned Into a Larger Movement? The French people have been protesting new labor laws for a couple of weeks, but what I find particular interesting is the potential for these gatherings to turn into a full fledged political movement. We all know by now that the status quo […]
#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians
#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians Over 400 protesters were arrested in Washington for exercising their First Amendment right Assemble and Free Speech. They were protesting the ownership of Congress by the banks and corporations. The movement is known as #DemocracySpring and is expected to run for the week. It has been taking place on Twitter […]
