By CONN HALLINAN - July 29, 2010

Winning “hearts and minds” is just a tactic aimed at insuring our paramount interests...Be nice to the locals unless the locals decide that they don’t much like long-term occupation...Then “hearts and minds” turns nasty. U.S. Special Operations Forces carry out as many as five “kill and capture” raids a day in Afghanistan and have assassinated or jailed more than 500 Afghans in the past few months. Thousands of others languish in prisons.

A powerful indictment of all wars.

By Fires Never Extinguished (Phoenix Class War Council) - Tuesday, July 27 2010

A constant for those of us in Arizona who have been in the streets since the passage of SB 1070, has been the troubling presence of political opportunists...A "31 Flavors" of Left-wing political groups, most of them looking to jump on the anti-SB 1070 band wagon as a means to get their name out there, recruit new members, and/or use the human rights disaster we face to raise funds to build their presence.

By RANDALL AMSTER - Counterpunch

Fostering an environment of racialized violence is the harsh reality of Arizona’s drive toward legislated intolerance. For those who might feel saturated by the incessant news about immigration, or who wonder “what’s the big deal?” about SB 1070 and the like, this is a reminder of the stakes involved. Will there be a climate of escalating fear, hatred, and violence that takes over, or will this be a tipping point toward social justice and human dignity instead?

By CHRIS FLOYD - July 27, 2010

The savage cutbacks and vast, churning upheavals being pushed through, at breakneck speed, by [Britain's] new Conservative government...will send millions of people tumbling down into a permanent underclass -- and...gut the national health service with a stealth "Americanization" that will turn the operation of local doctors' offices over to private firms...and privatize public hospitals, allowing them to "fail"...if they don't produce enough cash for their elite shareholders.

Criminal negligence is at fault.

Monday, July 26 2010 - Infoshop News

We, the anarchists and autonomists of the Bay Area of California, lovers of rebellions, and haters of cops for their ceaseless violence against us, do humbly request for solidarity to help free these brave rebels. If your collective, scene, squat, movement has the capacity to throw a benefit, or otherwise come into money, for this legal defense fund, we couldn't need it more in order to keep our movement against the murderous police fierce and alive!



By Dave Zirin - July 26, 2010

If a car's brakes failed, you wouldn't blame the driver. You'd blame the manufacturer. And when we feel bludgeoned by the state of professional sports, it's the owners who need to answer for this sorry state of affairs...[Owners] are wrecking the world of sports. The old model of the paternalistic owner caring for a community has become as outdated as the typewriter.

By Mumia Abu Jamal - July 26, 2010

Consider this: If Oscar Grant were the aggressor, and charged with killing Mehserle...Would he have been able to transfer his trial hundreds of miles away? Would he have been able to select an all-black jury - or one from which all whites were purged?...Would he have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter - in the face of videotaped evidence?...Everyone who considers these questions honestly knows the answers.

By John Pilger - July 08, 2010

The Pentagon...spends $4.7 billion on public relations: that is, winning the hearts and minds not of recalcitrant Afghan tribesmen but of Americans. This is known as “information dominance” and PR people are “information warriors”.

July 12, 2010 - Vancouver Media Co-op

The public denunciation by celebrity leftist activists and "civil libertarians" validates the state's position and weakens the defense arguments of those comrades who face serious jail time. While in state custody, our comrades face beatings, torture, intimidation and extreme fear. As someone who's had a family member and several friends in government cages, I have zero tolerance for those who would endanger the freedom of people working for a better world.

By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY - July 23-25, 2010

A person who believes that it is “a hell of a hoot” to kill people is seriously demented. The fact that such a person has been appointed to a major US military command is alarming, to put it mildly. But a country gets the military leaders it deserves. It’s a pity that some are psychotic morons.

By Edward Herman - April 2010

There were no Tea Party-like campaigns to protest [the] growth in government and attack on constitutional...rights in the Bush years, because the growing and encroaching government was in the right hands. It is only when it gets into the wrong hands and there is the threat that government will serve the undeserving poor...and neglect the corporate community and national "security" that business, the military-industrial complex (MIC), and right-wing protest cadres get agitated about big government.

By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO - July 23-25, 2010

Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that the “War on Terror” has actually destabilized the Middle East and increased the terror threat throughout the globe...[T]he terror threat has grown in the wake of the Iraq invasion, despite the fact that Iraq posed no real national security threat to the West...[T]he invasion of Iraq has actually served as one of the best recruiters for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and loosely affiliated Islamist terror groups.