Greek people plead for American solidarity in their struggle [VIDEOS]
Greek protester talking to Democracy Now! in Athens.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE IN GREECE AGAINST the “austerity” measures the government wishes to impose to satisfy foreign creditors. The battle is apparently the same everywhere, with the superrich on one side, trying to roll back popular gains and extract even more money and concessions from the working class, and the masses beginning to resist, but still largely disorganized and leaderless since real left vanguard parties have been destroyed by the power and intrigues of world capitalism in the postwar decades. In this report filed by Democracy Now! young demonstrators clearly lay out their rationales for resistance. The world has now reached an impasse that cannot be resolved by applying the usual “cures” permitted by the capitalist playbook. Comfortable and remote from the reality stifling the masses and robbing them of their future, the rich and their minions have simply gone too far. A time of long overdue reckoning may be nearing. —PG
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ECONOMIST MARK WEISBROT explains in this interview with Amy Goodman the true meaning of the Greek crisis and what the foreign powers want (actually what their rich elites want). Meanwhile, the Greek people, as did the Spanish and French people in recent months, continue to give the American people examples on how to resist and fight back against the maneuvers of the international plutocracy and its hypocritical minions.
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A QUICK INTRO to a critical subject which every passing day makes more relevant to the lives of Americans and people around the world (whose lives we influence unduly, and almost always for the worse).
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JACK KEVORKIAN, maliciously nicknamed “Dr. Death”, was a true-life hero, and like all genuine originals, he marched to his own drummer.
From time to time, even in contemporary America, a land now awash in appalling mediocrity, runaway imbecility, and prudish conformity—most vices inherited from the religious Calvinist fanatics that settled this nation and reinforced by modern media—you get a true brave man, a veritable original, to challenge the tide of obtuse conventionality, and Kevorkian was such a man. That he was sent to the slammer for 10-to-25 by a judge who richly deserves her obscurity, is a testament to the burden that dumb religiosity and hypocrisy collect on America in the form of pervasive custom, a burden still far from lifted.
Kevorkian’s sin was his endorsement of the right of human beings—when imprisoned by a dreadful and incurable disease— to determine for themselves when they should leave this world. Murder, his opponents called it; assisted suicide in the face of painful and insurmountable odds was the term (properly) used by Kevorkian and his supporters. While no debate concerning life and death can ever be easy, we struggle with such option all the time in the case of our beloved companion animals, often choosing euthanasia as the most humane and charitable path when their pain becomes unbearable or their quality of life has deteriorated to the point of daily agony. The integrity of such logic should apply to humans, but apparently speciesism once again gets in the picture and quickly muddies the waters, a notorious instance of human exceptionalism, a narcissistic hangup widely embraced by our breed but clearly in need of re-examination. Unfortunately, the pious busybodies never rest.
Against this backdrop it’s perhaps worth remembering that in an age when the official* mantra in the US is to fight fanatical Islam in all its forms, a hard enforcer of religious conformity, America, too, has a long tradition of violent social busybodies. Below we offer some of the interviews that CBS, notably 60 Minutes, did with Dr Kevorkian.
OF ALL THE INTERVIEWS he conducted for “60 Minutes,” Mike Wallace often said none had a greater impact than this one. (Watch video below)Dr. Jack Kevorkian had long been a public advocate of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. From 1990 to 1998, he claimed to have helped end the lives of some 130 willing subjects. In September of 1998, Dr. Jack Kevorkian videotaped himself injecting Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, with a dose of lethal drugs. Two months later, that videotape, along with Wallace’s interview with Kevorkian, aired on “60 Minutes,” sparking a national outcry. In March of 1999, Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10-to-25 years in prison. He was released in 2007. Dr. Jack Kevorkian was 83 when he died. He suffered from kidney and heart problems and died, according to news reports, of natural causes. He is reported to have passed to the other side peacefully, in his sleep.—PG * We say “official” because the way that rule (“fight fanatical Islam”) is applied reeks with hypocrisy as Saudi Arabia is probably one of the chief purveyors of Muslim fanaticism, and a brutal enforcer of such practices at home.
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Anonymous Declares Cyberwar Against ‘the System’ (w. VIDEO)
By Timothy Karr
On Tuesday, someone claiming to speak for the underground group Anonymous released a video declaration of war against “the system.”
The YouTube manifesto is a call to everyone in the online world to get off the couch, pick up their cell phones and laptops and join a revolt against governments and corporations that are intent upon stifling free speech online.
“It’s time to hack the planet. It’s time to turn the tables on the powers that be and show them that we have had enough,” a narrator declares in a computer-generated voice used to mask his or her identity.
“This is our challenge,” the narrator continues:
The revolution must take hold as a peaceful revolution. We must build our strength and unity through ideas, ingenuity and creativity. We must tear down the barriers that have existed to this day only because we allowed them to. The revolution must be televised. We must utilize the tools that we have and apply them with existing technology: computers, cell phones, internet and media.
Anonymous consists of a loose-knit collective of underground hackers and Internet freedom advocates that grew out of the 4Chan forum and other online networks of political activists.
The group seeks to unite hackers and culture jammers behind a singular purpose: to tear down digital age barriers to free expression. With Tuesday’s video manifesto, Anonymous has apparently widened its target, to include waging war against all entities that “are taking steps to make the Internet a less friendly and tolerable place for expression.”
Given the elusive nature of the group, it’s hard to determine whether this Anonymous manifesto came from the organization’s leadership — if they exist at all — or simply bubbled up from within its loose structure.
It is, however, something that should not be taken lightly.
Anonymous has launched several successful “operations” to bring down the websites of governments, corporations and political groups it sees as oppressors. Earlier this week a NATO report warned member states of a serious Anonymous threat to their military security.
It has also followed up on WikiLeaks, hacking into the confidential files of these groups and releasing them to the public.
Earlier this year Anonymous released the emails of Aaron Barr, the executive of security firm HBGary, including a PowerPoint proposal to smear writer Glenn Greenwald, who is one of the most outspoken defenders of Wikileaks.
In March, Anonymous released emails it claimed to have obtained from Bank of America, allegedly exposing corruption and fraud related to mortgage foreclosures in the U.S.
The manifesto is pretty compelling stuff, written by someone familiar with the history of seminal political texts. And it’s told to a danceable backbeat:
[the revolution] must begin immediately because as you are listening to this address world governments are taking steps to make the Internet a less friendly and tolerable place for expression. This is a direct attack on your rights.
As a response Anonymous calls upon “all those who possess the ability to alter cyber barriers” to hack the oppressors using peaceful means, including art, graffiti, fliers, music, lectures, assembly and protest. It also called upon those with technical know how to use their skills to become “digital warriors of the underground,” presumably to help hack into systems of the groups they oppose.
“This is not anarchy this is resistance,” the manifesto claims. “The time is now. The revolution has begun.”
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