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May 2012
"Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine"
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-New Comment on MediaDesk & on Obama’s Hypocrisy
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-Article: Statement on Chris Hedges and the Black Bloc, by Richard Chen
- May 2, 2012, OBAMA CALLS UNEXPECTED PRESS CONFERENCE, article by Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken
- May Day
The Internationale: What Does It Mean Today?
By Luke and Marti Hiken
Under Articles by Luke & Marti Hiken and MediaDesk
- New resources on the Fallujah and Giuliana Sgrena FOIA case
April 2012
- Columbian Journalism Review. Reports, Sept/Oct 2011, Pirate Radio, Mayan Style
Indigenous stations want to come in from the cold
By Connor Boals, under Media
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the destruction of Fallujah & wounding of Giuliana Sgrena, under Articles by Marti/Luke Hiken
- Two new comments on MediaDesk
Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority comment on MediaDesk
- New Obama’s Hypocrisy & MediaDesk Comments
- New MediaDesk Comments
- Link re-established to “Guerrilla Warfare”
—by Míchealín Daugherty, under Theory Table of Contents, Guerrilla Warfare Table of Contents
- New Article: HUNGER GAMES ON STAGE, By Luke Hiken and Marti Hiken, April 10, 2012
- New MediaDesk Comment
- BRINGING THE WAR HOME by Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken
March 2012
- New comments on MediaDesk re the great victory to halt the use Methyl Iodide in the U.S.; the lies around Pink Slime, and a new look at Sumptuary Laws/The extravagance of the rich
- New additions to Obama’s Hypocrisy, “The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order” and the XL Pipeline, southern route
- HYPOCRITE OF THE YEAR AWARD, By Luke Hiken
- Harm’s Way -Understanding Race and Punishment, By James Forman, Jr., under Law & Order (left-hand margin)
- Update on Okinawa: U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within Okinawa Prefecture;
- Bad news: “Veterans For Peace Team detained when leaving plane in Jeju Island, Korea - Korea” to prevent them from joining in solidarity with the Islanders’ non- violent protests to turning their Island and home into a U.S.military naval base, under Military, Military Bases and Other Issues (left margin), Land Rights
- NEW ARTICLE: THE UNNAMED SERGEANT, by Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken, 3-14-12
- THE PATHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER
By Luke Hiken and Marti Hiken, 3-13-12, also under OTHER ISSUES, The Politics of Elections Table of Contents
- On MediaDesk “Both the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council and the Oglala Sioux Tribe, have passed legislation against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and have adopted the Mother Earth Accord....” & photo also on Sustainability Table of Contents; in addition, comment on mourning the death of the Afghans
-March 1, 2012 --FREE SPEECH – Turned on its Head, By Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken
February 2012
- “What is a Terrorist?” section added under Repression Table of Contents & Criminal Law Table of Contents
- The link to “Beyond the Affinity Group - The Organisational Challenge for Anarchists” by Andrew Flood has been re-established under Militancy, Netwars Table of Contents
- Two new comments under MediaDesk - one from the AVA -- & the other from Dan Shea (also under Organizing Tactics, left margin, Organizing Strategies & Tactics Table of Contents)
- A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce A. Dixon re new restrictions on organizing unions, under Labor & Obama’s Hypocrisy
- Article on Guantanamo: Appeals court blocks Guantanamo suicide lawsuit
By Nedra Pickler - The Associated Press, under Repression, Guantanamo
- New article by Luke/Marti Hiken: “Puppets & Lackeys”
- New section under Militancy: ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (HACKTIVISM)
- New Additions under Obama’s Hypocrisy, re Obama’s Valentine Day gift: The Skynet Surveillance Enabling Act of 2012 --
re commercial and privately-owned unmanned drones
- New section added on Special Operations Forces Assassins, under Military Table of Contents and Militancy Table of Contents, Counter-Insurgency, Asymmetric Warfare
- Philippines section added under More Current Guerrilla Wars about NPAs hunting Palparan
- Peace section with General Table of Contents section created on Militancy Table of Contents;
- New quote on MediaDesk from: “The Prison and the Gallows, -- The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America,” by Marie Gottschalk
- Excerpts from Michael Parenti’s book, “The Face of Imperialism,” added to Socialism vs. Vulture Capitalism (Imperialism) section; quote from Parenti under Quick Reference
January 2012
- New Page on Earth Penetrating Bombs created
- New comment re Mumia on MediaDesk; Quote from Michael Parenti on the Dialectic Table of Contents page; New link to the Website Dedication page - WEBSITE DEDICATION: To Warren Wells;
- New Comments on MediaDesk re people filing against Obama & the NDAA; the Undeclared War in Iran; Romney gives more to the Mormon Church than he pays in taxes; and, Obama refusing to keep his promise to shut down Guantanamo Prison
- WHAT PLANET DO THESE GOP CLOWNS LIVE ON? By Luke Hiken / Marti Hiken
By Marti and Luke Hiken, 1-16-12
-New Update on Methyl Iodide on MediaDesk; update on earth penetrating weapons under Militancy, Nuclear War, Nuclear War Table of Contents
Condemn Use of U.S. Military to Escort Scab Grain Ship in Longview WA, under Labor & Obama’s Hypocrisy
Media Manipulation and the Drums of War: How Media is used to Whip the Nation into Wartime Frenzy, by James Corbett, under Media
Article by Marti Hiken & Luke Hiken
-WORLD MAP OF U.S. MILITARY BASES sent by Ken Dalton, Veterans for Peace
also see Militarization section under Military Table of Contents
- New Additions under Obama’s Hypocrisy, including info about his signing the National Defense Authorization Act and more sanctions against Iran