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“Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him
“Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him 1. Julian Assange is Free, but “Freedom of Speech has Passed” Julian Assange left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where […]
Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done
Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Julian Assange is free. As of this writing he is en route to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the US government which will see him […]
Canada’s Online Harms Act Bill C-63: Life in Prison for Thought Criminals
Canada’s Online Harms Act Bill C-63: Life in Prison for Thought Criminals Bill C-63, otherwise known as the Online Harms Act, is the most dangerous piece of legislation ever foisted on Canadians, and possibly the most dangerous piece of legislation currently on the books anywhere in the world. The Online Harms Act is a counter-intel propaganda […]
Local Food Movements Won’t Save the World
Local Food Movements Won’t Save the World Why Local and Equitable are not Synonymous Image Source: Polyp, “Gold Digger” Over the last few decades, local food movements in the West have become popularized, bringing with them the promise of reshaping the food system in a positive way. We’ve all heard their rallying cry: eat local, buy […]
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have. Baraitser’s frightening ruling supported virtually every US prosecutorial argument that was made during the extradition trial, no matter how absurd and Orwellian. This includes quoting from a long-discredited CNN report […]
The Corrupt System Will Never Police Itself
The Corrupt System Will Never Police Itself False hope breeds crippling apathy – This is what I have to think to myself when I see the news media fervor over the second arrest of billionaire Jefferey Epstein, or similar events which in most cases end up fading into the background and forgotten. The public’s favorite […]
Julian Assange Is Today’s Martin Luther King
Julian Assange Is Today’s Martin Luther King “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, […]
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying […]
Is America a Police State?
Is America a Police State? The current state of the United States’ criminal justice system, if it can even be called that anymore, is truly appalling. Recently, in a small town in Pennsylvania, an insurance agent for Nationwide Insurance noticed a certain plant growing in a garden on the property he was inspecting. This insurance […]
On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects
On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects Excerpted from the preface of Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is necessary to reduce the effects of the following divergences that arose mainly as a side effect of civilization: action and cheap talk (tawk), consequence and intention, practice and theory, honor and reputation, expertise and pseudoexpertise, concrete […]
Must Watch Video – “The Veneer of Justice in a Kingdom of Crime”
Must Watch Video – “The Veneer of Justice in a Kingdom of Crime” All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him…The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without […]
Top 10 Activist Errors
Top 10 Activist Errors The number one error, engaged in by the majority of people, is failing to be an activist. The world’s going to hell, countless situations can be easily improved, lives can be saved, and most people just sit there and do nothing. Others actively work to make matters worse. So, if you’re […]
We can’t have resilience without justice
We can’t have resilience without justice Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones. Their deaths — and those of too many others — illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It’s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence. But here’s a casualty you might […]
Making the banks pay | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio
Making the banks pay | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis we all had one question in our minds: How many leading bankers are going to jail and for how long? The answer of course was a) none and b) not applicable. The matter of […]
