Police thuggery escalating? Economy in the toilet? Approval rating approaching Justin Bieber levels? What’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner to do?
Of course! Start another war in Iraq!
And, needless to say, the Ferguson police are all like “Awright! News cycle! Woo hooooo!”
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Just in case you haven’t been following the bloody shitshow in Gaza, it isn’t just the Israeli state and military that’s batshit these days — it’s the whole damn’ nation of Israel that’s hopped aboard the crazy train.
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Gaza Solidarity Mobilization, Washington DC 08.02.14 from Mike Flugennock on Vimeo.
Far more folks than I expected rolled into DC yesterday afternoon to pack Lafayette Square and get all up into President Farting Rainbows’ face about Gaza.
The word I heard flying around the park was that this was the biggest demonstration in the US so far, which was a surprise considering how big the Chicago march was.
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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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