Nov 20 2011
Occupy Portland Protester Pepper Sprayed In The Face By Dean Praetorius, 11/19/11 02:03 PM ET … In recent days pepper spray has become almost synonymous with the Occupy movement. Most recently this photo, which is quickly becoming an iconic image from the movement, has gone viral. It shows Occupy Portland protester Elizabeth Nichols getting hit …
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Nov 20 2011
A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street By Nicolaus Mills, Saturday 19 November 2011 12.00 EST … This Tuesday’s pre-dawn destruction of the Zuccotti Park encampment of Occupy Wall Street by New York City police in riot gear has been seen by some as a serious defeat for the movement. …
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Nov 20 2011
Is pizza a vegetable? Well, Congress says so By Lizz Winstead, Friday 18 November 2011 10.21 EST … Hey, America! The GOP is, yet again, looking out for you. This week, Congress took a break from voting to make sure none of your tax dollars will go to all those abortion clinics NPR wants to …
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Nov 19 2011
Ukraine, 1942. What are we seeing? By Robert Fisk, Saturday November 19 2011 … In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a Polish postal official working for the resistance opened a letter sent by a German soldier to his family. Inside was a photograph which so shocked the man that he forwarded it to the Polish underground; …
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Nov 19 2011
The Occupy movement now has its iconic image of martyrdom By Jonathan Jones, Friday 18 November 2011 09.01 EST … Every nascent political movement needs martyrs. Even the sensible British labour movement, whose history is mostly peaceful and overwhelmingly parliamentary, has its memories of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the Peterloo massacre. Revolutionary traditions fervently venerate …
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Nov 18 2011
‘Obama the Antichrist’ and end-times doctrine By Sarah Posner, Friday 18 November 2011 14.29 EST … Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21 year old from Idaho Falls, Idaho was charged this week with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing rifle shots at the presidential residence at the White House. The president, Ortega-Hernandez reportedly maintained, is …
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Nov 18 2011
Why the West is Demonizing Iran By Stuart Littlewood, November 17, 2011 … When new recruits join British Petroleum (BP) they are fed romantic tales about how the company came into being. William Knox D’Arcy, a Devon man, studied law and, after emigrating to Australia, made a fortune from the Mount Morgan gold-mining operations in …
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