From police assaults on citizens photographing Occupy protests to Al Jazeera reporters’ imprisonment by the Egyptian regime, journalists have endured escalating attacks by authoritarian regimes both in the US and abroad.
It’s gotten to the point where simply reporting the news is an act of resistance.
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Here’s one for our friends in Israel, just to let them know I’m thinking of them as they search diligently for their precious missing teens.
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Israelis Kill Palestinian During House Searches In West Bank, Al Jazeera English, 06.17.14
Israel Teens Search Aims To “Break” Hamas, Al Jazeera English, 06.18.14
I caught this article on Al Jazeera the other day, reporting that owing to poor turnout, the Egyptian election commission has been forced to extend voting for a third day. In fact, Egyptians are avoiding the polls in such large numbers that the election commission is threatening fines for not voting — which kind of pushes not voting into the realm of non-violent civil disobedience, when you think about it.
I couldn’t help thinking that dissident/third parties in the US — especially on the Left — could learn something from this. For many years now, Americans have staged a sort of de facto boycott of elections, but it hasn’t been organized and sent no unified message about oligarchy and corruption. Perhaps instead of pissing away time and energy trying to get “elected”, outfits like the Green Party could instead send a message about the state of US electoral politics by calling for a boycott — a “No Vote” campaign, mobilizing non-voters to take to the streets to express their intent and their reason for not voting, smashing the old stereotype of the “apathetic” non-voter.
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It was five years ago this week — this past Thursday, to be exact — that President Sparkle Pony kicked off his murderous drone warfare campaign. Not even a week in office, and already we had some change — you’ve got to give him that.
So, I was reading this article over at the Bureau Of Investigative Journalism and saw this graph showing President Sparkle Pony’s massive escalation of remote-control murder compared to President Chimp, and on viewing the layout of the bars showing the figures for Obama, I couldn’t help noticing something…
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Follow the Bureau Of Investigative Journalism on Twitter.
…and, here’s some more of El Presidente’s dronetastic moments from days gone by:
“Well, Waddya Know?” December 2013
“I Have A Drone” January 2013
“I Am The Joker” July 2012
“My Little Party” February 2012
“Are You In?” April 2011
“Yes, We Can!” October 2010
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