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"Life changes when you lose everything," says Manoli Cortés. "There was a time when I was happy just to work and look after my home. Now, at the age of 65, I have suddenly become an activist." She is sitting in a typical Spanish living room: immaculately clean, filled with family photographs and dark wood ...

Egyptian Winter: A New Short Documentary

We just finished a new documentary about the situation in Cairo, Egypt. Two years after the revolution in Egypt began, unrest continues across the country as the political and economic situation worsens. As the current government consolidates its power, the demands of the revolution may seem further away than ever. http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20130304202603951Related PostsAllan Sekula: Fish Story [...]

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Egypt protesters torch buildings, try to target Suez Canal

Egyptian protesters torched buildings in Cairo and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt international shipping on the Suez Canal, as a court ruling on a deadly soccer riot stoked rage in a country beset by worsening security. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE92805G20130309?irpc=932Related PostsNational Security Agency: Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (2007) Google: FBI Sought Data on Thousands of [...]

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Age of the sociopath

The term Anthropocene not only doesn’t help us stop this culture from killing the planet – it contributes directly to the problems it purports to address. First, it’s grossly misleading. Humans aren’t the ones “transforming” – read, killing – the planet. Civilized humans are. There’s a difference. It’s the difference between old growth forests and [...]

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Two Anarchist Grand Jury Resisters are Free: Judge Cites “Strength of Their Convictions” – Infoshop News

For the past five months Matt Duran and Katherine “KteeO” Olejnik have been in jail for refusing to talk about their friends or about their political beliefs. They were never accused of any crime; they took a principled stand against a federal grand jury targeting anarchists. During that time, one of the other grand jury [...]

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LA Times – Detainees in anarchist investigation released

Two activists jailed for refusing to cooperate in a federal grand jury investigation of anarchists in the Pacific Northwest were released from prison Thursday after a judge ruled there was little chance they would change their minds. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74620087/Related Poststhe PRIVATE BANK of DENNY RAY HARDIN If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation [...]

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I Can Haz Internet Freedom?

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The U.S. government and the government of the U.K., along with almost every corporation and governing body ever targeted by Anonymous, have unsurprisingly treated the banner and its users as a criminal, terrorist group. Our government, as well as law enforcement across the pond, has charged dozens of anons, threatening decade-long prison terms—or worse. Anonymous [...]

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FBI is increasing pressure on suspects in Stuxnet inquiry

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Holder appointed Rod J. Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, to lead the Stuxnet inquiry after a New York Times article about President Obama ordering cyberattacks against Iran using a computer virus developed in conjunction with Israel. Other publications, including The Washington Post, followed with similar reports about Stuxnet and a related virus called Flame. [...]

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A ‘Black Bloc’ Emerges in Egypt

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click to enlarge While using Twitter to narrate events in Tahrir Square on Friday, people in Egypt described tires burning in the street, protesters blocking traffic and hurling rocks, and police officers launching tear gas in an effort to break up crowds that had gathered to protest against the Muslim Brotherhood and the country’s new [...]

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PayPal Assault On File-Sharing Sites Makes Business Case For Bitcoin

BitTorrent and Bitcoin were made for each other. An article on TorrentFreak reports that PayPal is requiring private BitTorrent tracking sites to provide them free access for purposes of monitoring user content for possible copyright infringement. On the very same day, another TorrentFreak article claimed that researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University show domain seizure of [...]

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Anarchism and Psychology

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Title: Anarchism and Psychology Author(s): Dennis Fox Date: 2011 Topics: academy prefigurative politics psychology social control subjectivity Notes: Paper presented at conference of North American Anarchist Studies Network Toronto, Ontario January 16, 2011 DRAFT of article in press, Theory in Action Source: Retrieved on March 9, 2011 from www.dennisfox.net Downloads: …Related PostsMichel Meulders: Helmholtz: From [...]

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7 Reasons to Consider Off-the-Grid Independent Living

Going off grid should not be a spontaneous decision; it can be exceedingly difficult, costly, and fraught with unexpected problems if one has not done the proper research, nor acquired the requisite skills. This article will not be about how to go off the grid, but rather why one should strongly consider doing whatever it [...]

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The Crimes of Mena

The Suppressed Article This is the article which had been scheduled to appear in the Washington Post. After having cleared the legal department for all possible questions of inaccurate statements, the article was scheduled for publication when just as the presses were set to roll, Washington Post Managing Editor Bob Kaiser (Like George Bush, a [...]

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These women fought bravely

“These women fought bravely, and were reported to be the last to retreat.” To read on the role of women during the Spanish Civil War, read Lisa Lines’ article, Female Combatants in the Spanish Civil War: Milicianas on the Front Lines and in the Rearguard. (via effectiveresistance)Related PostsJan Cohen-Cruz (ed.): Radical Street Performance: An International [...]

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The Vissarion Christ: Inside Russia’s End-Times Cults

  Vissarion’s followers live in the Abode of Dawn City or a handful of villages in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region; they believe their religious community is the only ark that can save them in these troubled times. (Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for Newsweek) The Christ of Siberia walked carefully onto the ice stage and observed the [...]

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Were U.S Marines Used as Guinea Pigs on Okinawa?

A CounterPunch Special Report: Growing Evidence Suggests the U.S. Military Tested Biochemical Agents on Its Own Forces on the Island in the 1960s

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Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source

No Justice, No Peace

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The Fact-Free Fiscal Cliff Debate

The History of Budget Deficits and Economic Growth in Relation to Taxes and Unemployment

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