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FEMEN In Exile
by Nick Glossop on September 6, 2012
Caution: sacrilege and mammaries (NSFW)
A member of Ukrainian feminist group, Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kiev in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website.
Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested.
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Taibbi On Romney
by Nick Glossop on August 30, 2012
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
The unlikeliness of Romney’s gambit isn’t simply a reflection of his own artlessly unapologetic mindset – it stands as an emblem for the resiliency of the entire sociopathic Wall Street set he represents. Four years ago, the Mitt Romneys of the world nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed, shortsightedness and – most notably – wildly irresponsible
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(Video) Col. Wilkerson Riffs On The GOP Convention
by Nick Glossop on August 28, 2012
Our modern day Smedley Butler, Lawrence Wilkerson, riffs on the GOP convention and the state of US presidential politics:
If I were the Koch brothers, if I were some guy making billions of dollars off a hedge fund and paying absolutely no taxes or very little taxes, I’d go after Romney, too; I wouldn’t vote for Obama. Obama at least looks like he might be slightly interested about the vast
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Julian Assange’s Full Address from the Ecuadorean Embassy
by Nick Glossop on August 20, 2012
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Imagery Of Eid Al Fitr 2012
by Lorelei Loveridge on August 20, 2012
Check out these beautiful first images of Eid worldwide by the BBC and Guardian News:
Last night marked end of Ramadan and the start of Eid-al-fitr 2012. Muslims have fasted and prayed, payed their required charity funds or ‘zakat’ to the needy, and demonstrated restraint and more acts of kindness and generosity than usual. Now, the celebration for this strict month of dedication to Islamic faith and principles begins.
Ramadan …
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Canadians: “Get that Asian-looking woman off our $100 bill, and replace with a non-ethnic Caucasian.”
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on August 17, 2012
The Toronto Star has published a cringe-inducing article outlining the recall and redesign of newly minted Canadian $100 bills. The reason? Focus groups determined that the woman looking into a microscope on the bill appeared Asian. This a problem. Because people are racist blowholes.
When we got into focus groups…some thought the image appeared to represent a particular ethnic group, so modifications were made. ~Bank of Canada spokesman Jeremy Harrison
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Enbridge oil erases 1000km of island landmass to demonstrate safety route!
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on August 16, 2012
Enbridge has unveiled a PR video in a bid to sway public opinion on their possibly disastrous plan to stretch the Northern Gateway Pipeline across land we’d rather not bathe in heavy crude. Apparently the only way they could make it look like a safe and viable plan is to erase islands from the Douglas channel.
According to an recent article on the David Suzuki Foundation website by Lori Waters, a specialist …
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Pussy Riot ~ Lady Madonna To The Rescue (Updated)
by Nick Glossop on August 10, 2012
Update: In response to Madonna’s statement in support of Pussy Riot on a Moscow stage Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin took to Twitter:
With age, every former whore starts to give everyone lectures on morality. Especially when touring abroad. (My translation)*
You stay classy, Kremlin!
*Note that he did merely use the letter ‘б’ but as everyone, especially everyone in the Putinocracy (the Puta for short), knows perfectly …
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Hate Crimes Always Have A Logic: On The Oak Creek Gurudwara Shootings
by Andrew Loewen on August 6, 2012
In 2008 I dropped out of a PhD program in Chicago and moved to Vancouver. Sickened and exhausted by the hypocrisy and complacency of the elite liberal academy, I threw myself into grassroots activism in a more concerted way than I ever had. One of the most respected and omnipresent radical activists based in Vancouver is Harsha Walia, who works with No One is Illegal, The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, …
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(Video) Pussy Riot ~ Putin Plays Benevolent Leader
by Nick Glossop on August 4, 2012
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Gore Vidal: A Contrarian Dies
by Andrew Loewen on August 1, 2012
Still mourning the recent death of the irreplaceable radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, the American left now reels from the death of the prolific gadfly and endlessly quotable Gore Vidal. Like many people my age, I knew Vidal primarily as a public personality rather than a literary author (I’ve not read one of his more than 20 novels). Head to The Telegraph for the best of the Vidal obituaries …
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Pussy Riot On Inside Story
by Nick Glossop on July 31, 2012
Inside Story asks: Why does the Russian government see Pussy Riot as a threat? Could Pussy Riot spark a rebellion in Russia? And is the church a “propaganda wing” of Putin’s government?
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