Papering Over Disaster – by Stephen Lendman Fall 2007 began the onset of America’s greatest Depression. Europe’s in deep trouble. Reckoning day’s delayed by bailing out insolvent banks and throwing money at markets like confetti. What can’t go on forever, won’t. Progressive Radio News Hour guest Bob Chapman warned investors for years. It’s just a [...]

All the youtube videos which have been posted to this site are currently unavailable. We will hopefully be able to fix the problem soon, but in the meantime, it appears that all videos, including their original links, are off-line. MW apologizes for the inconvenience. Article source: http://mostlywater.org/mostly_water_videos_unavailable_moment

Police Brutality at Osgoode Hall 4 occupiers arrested, 2 beaten, 3 arrests for simply recording By Darryl Richardson; March 30, 2012 – Toronto Media Co-ophttp://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/police-brutality-osgoode-h… First names used by request. Behind Osgoode Hall at around 2:00 pm today Angela sent out a text that police were at Osgoode Hall with an eviction notice. The occupiers [...]

Millions Mobilize As General Strike Brings Spain To Standstill By Jérôme E. Roos; March 30, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/millions-mobilize-as-general-… Source: Roarmag.org Millions of Spaniards are walking off their jobs today in a massive general strike and a series of protest marches against the proposed austerity budget and labor reforms of Prime Minister Rajoy’s 4-month old conservative [...]

Trayvon Martin’s Death, LeBron James and the Miami Heat By Dave Zirin; March 30, 2012 – Znet Commentaryhttp://www.zcommunications.org/trayvon-martin-s-death-lebron… Source: Edge of Sports “The thing is that, when you are a popular athlete, and you accept the money and the fame, and you become a front person for those who have the power, and they say [...]

What’s Next in Syria? – by Stephen Lendman On March 27, Syria formally accepted Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan. His spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi said: “The Syrian government has written to the Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan accepting his six-point plan, endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.” “Mr Annan views this as an important initial [...]

Terrorizing Palestinians Daily – by Stephen Lendman Life in Occupied Palestine is harsh, brutal, and repressive. It includes collective punishment, closed borders, economic strangulation, land theft, dispossessions, neighborhood incursions, ground and air attacks, arrests, torture, incarceration, and constant fear. Daily reports explain. On March 27, soldiers and settlers invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque through the al-Magharba [...]

Wildcat strike at Air Canada outrages and unnerves ruling elite By Carl Bronski; 30 March 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/airc-m30.shtml An editorial published Tuesday by the Globe and Mail, Canada’s “newspaper of record” and the traditional mouthpiece of the banks and stock exchange, underscores that the ruling elite is intent on criminalizing all forms of worker opposition [...]

Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with Iran By Gareth Porter; March 30th, 2012 – Dissident Voicehttp://dissidentvoice.org/2012/03/israel-shields-public-from… Inter Press Service — The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling Israelis that Israel can attack Iran with minimal civilian Israeli casualties as a result of retaliation, and that reassuring message appears to have [...]

Challenging Israeli State Terror – by Stephen Lendman Among other methods, lawlessly imprisoned Palestinians do it by hunger striking. Khader Adnan got world attention. He endured 66 days before Israel agreed to release him on April 17. He continues struggling to regain health and survive. On March 30, Hana Shalabi’s 43rd hunger strike day began. [...]

This article has been generously contributed for your consideration and reading pleasure by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com. Editor’s Note: While primarily focused on cold weather bug-out lessons, much of the information Brandon provides below is applicable to hot weather scenarios as well. If you’ve ever gone through a heat spell or drought in the Southern [...]

B.C. Mountie charged after shots fired in home No one was hurt when shots allegedly fired into wall By the Canadian Press; March 29, 2012 – CBC Newshttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03… An RCMP officer in Langley, B.C., has been charged after he allegedly fired his police-issued gun inside his home Wednesday night. Michael Roe has also been suspended [...]

Pope Benedict backs market measures in Cuba By Rafael Azul; 30 March 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/cuba-m30.shtml On a three-day visit to Cuba this week, Pope Benedict XVI gave the Vatican’s seal of approval to the government’s policies of opening the Cuban economy to private property relations and exploitation by global transnational corporations. A curious incident that [...]

The Arrest of a Student Photographer Snapshot of Systemic Police Abuse By LINN WASHINGTON, JR.; March 30-April 01, 2012 – Counterpunch Weekend Editionhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/30/snapshot-of-systemic-… I don’t know Temple University photojournalism major Ian Van Kuyk, despite his enrollment in Temple’s Journalism Department, where I teach. I do know that dynamics embedded in the recent arrest of Van [...]

OCAP statement on 2012 Ontario Budget March 3, 2012 – Ontario Coalition Against Povertyhttp://ocap.ca/node/994 Raise The Rates Ontario Budget Declares War on Poor and Working People: Liberals cut Community Start-Up allowance, drive down welfare/ODSP rates, impose wage freeze… The 2012 Ontario Budget, delivered by the Liberal Government, but designed by Bay Street, goes under the [...]

The Toulouse Killings: Not In Palestine’s Name How one Palestinian living in power-starved Gaza views the killings in Toulouse. By Yasmeen El Khoudary; March 28, 2012 – AlterNethttp://www.alternet.org/story/154734 When Mohammed Merah, the now infamous French Islamist, was captured by police after killing three Jewish children at the Ozar Hatorah day school in southern France, he [...]

Legislating Greater Wall Street Theft – by Stephen Lendman Political Washington is Wall Street’s best friend. Whatever crooked bankers want they get. Their business model features grand theft. Wealth’s amassed through fraudulent double-dealing. Lawmakers facilitate their racketeering. They’re rewarded in kind. Only fleeced households, investors, communities and nations lose out. Their dirty game continues unobstructed. [...]

Flashback to August 16, 2011, when we published a White House Insider report detailing the possibility that the Obama administration would incite race riots in the build up to the 2012 Presidential election: Via The Ulsterman Report: Insider: Yes.  It’s in place and underway – being developed.Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/N1hDM5MoZDs/powder-keg-rap-song-charges-white-man-with-murder-strap-on-your-aks-lets-start-a-riot_03292012

From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin By Jordan Flaherty; March 29, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/from-nypd-spying-to-trayvon-m… Source: The Progressive When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged. I had followed revelations of NYPD spying, but it hadn’t occurred to me that they would come [...]

US and Australia prepare military build up in Indian Ocean By Patrick O’Connor; 29 March 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/coco-m29.shtml The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Obama administration and the Australian Labor government have advanced plans for a substantial military build up in the Indian Ocean. An increased US naval presence, including aircraft carriers and attack [...]

Fragging in Afghanistan? – by Stephen Lendman If it’s happening, it’s not reported. Washington wants no mention or suggestion of what plagued Vietnam. More on that below. Writing about the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky said: “The moral condition of the army was hopeless. You might describe it by saying the army as an army no [...]

What was a fairly minor fuel shortage sparked when gas tanker drivers in the UK threatened to go on strike has developed into what UK officials are now calling all out chaos, as drivers across the country scramble to fillArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/Vc_t2d9GuSg/total-chaos-in-the-uk-as-gas-stations-run-dry-efforts-to-stop-panic-buying-have-led-to-more-panic-buying_03292012

Malalai Joya: Foreign troops must leave Sunday, March 25, 2012 – Green Left Weeklyhttp://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50495 Malalai Joya, a former MP and one of Afghanistan’s best-known democratic leaders, recently survived the sixth attempt on her life. Taliban gunmen attacked her office at 3 am on March 10, wounding two of her guards. In an exclusive interview, she [...]

British Columbia criminalizes teachers’ strike to force through wage cut By Vic Neufeld; 28 March 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/teac-m28.shtml Events in British Columbia over the past month have exposed not only the provincial Liberal government’s vicious assault on worker rights, but also the role of the unions and New Democratic Party (NDP) in demobilizing teacher and [...]

Cranking Up the Heat: On the Chances for a Decent Future By Paul Street; March 28, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/cranking-up-the-heat-on-the-c… “Did We Even Have a Winter?” I do not recall my attic den being too hot to work in during the late-winter month of March. I head out to find a comfortable indoor space and behold [...]