This horrified us when it appeared a few days ago. We saved it up in order to ruin your Saturday. Trump now has his own official campaign jam. You’ll want to bleach your eyes and take a pneumatic drill to your eardrum when watching this. It’s like someone kidnapped a whole load of Barney kids at one of the castings and kept them locked in a militia’s basement for a … Read More
UN Troops Fire Live Ammunition On Protestors in Haiti.
UN Troops on a “stabilisation mission“, believed to be Jordanian, opened fire on protestors in Haiti with tear gas and live ammunition. The President Michel Martelly has addressed the nation twice in three days and has announced that the Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe will resign. Haiti is treated as a colony by the USA and it has manipulated the politics of the island with the co-operation of the UN. The … Read More
Warriors Come Out To Play.
Last week’s killing of an unarmed 18 year old Micheal Brown by an officer called Darren Wilson, gave the world not only a glimpse of the racialisation of policing in the United States but a shocking window into how local police forces are amping up their military capacity. Much of the social media surprise around this latest cold killing in the States has been over the military grade weaponry and tactics broken … Read More
#rabbleReels: Obama’s Class War.
The growing popularity of John Oliver’s HBO show ‘Last Week Tonight’ merits it another blogpost. This week he tackles inequality and the language of fear used to silence debate about it. Three years ago President Obama challenged a group of historians to ‘…help me find a way to discuss the issue of inequality in our society without being accused of class warfare.’ His recent speech identified ‘income inequality’ as … Read More
Gaza Livestreams.
As the death toll in Gaza rises to 77 this morning, including at least 18 children, two live feeds show airstrikes while the audio picks up jets and explosions as tanks mass on the borders. A short article entitled ‘A Palestinian Mother’s Fear In East Jerusalem’ appeared in yesterday’s New York Times (a notoriously pro-Israel sheet) which gave a cutting insight into the apartheid that affects every part of Palestinian life … Read More
American Child Severely Beaten By Israeli Soldiers.
The 15 year old American cousin of Mohammed Abu Khdeir was taken by Israeli soldiers and severely beaten. Tariq Khdeir survived, unlike his cousin who was tortured then burned alive by his captors. The video above shows some of the beating plus an interview with his family given to the Telegraph. The Telegraph reports: The boy, Tariq Abu Khdeir, is an American citizen, Tariq’s father said he witnessed his son’s arrest and … Read More
What’s In Yer Baggy?
With the rise of EDM stateside came the increased use of chemical enhancers. In steps the Bunk Police, they’re probs the only coppers you wouldn’t mind showing up at your rave and telling you what’s in your baggy. Rashers Tierney fields them a few questions. There seemed to be more caution around pill use years ago than now. There was a much more heightened awareness of the need for pill/drug testing in … Read More
#rabbleReels: The War At Home
The award winning documentary The House I Live In travels the US in search of answers to questions about the War on Drugs and what it has done to America. Since 1971 the War on Drugs has cost at least $1Trillion and $45 million arrests. In reality it is a war on America’s poor. There are over 2.3 million Americans in prison, many on mandatory sentencing for minor drug violations … Read More
#outBeyond: ‘F*ck the EU’
A bugged telephone conversation between the top US diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt was made public via YouTube. Nuland suggests that the EU’s position should be ignored after she reportedly tells Mr Pyatt that Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, is going to appoint Robert Serry, the former Dutch ambassador to Kiev as his representative in Ukraine. “That would be great I think to … Read More
#outBeyond: Chomsky on TPP – The Biggest ‘Trade’ Agreement In History
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is an agreement between the US and other Pacific executives and the most powerful organisations. It is being described as NAFTA on steroids and possibly the most important and impactful agreement in history – yet without these two Wikileaks leaks we would know almost nothing about it. Noam Chomsky briefly explains what it is on the Laura Flanders show. Watch another 5 minute clip from … Read More
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