Thank you for posting this! I hope this will inspire similar actions at other Mexican consulates and embassies. Paramilitary forces murdering people is full no more creeping it’s arrived Fascism.
When our governments become so corrupt they allow individuals or groups to literally murder citizens-what use are they to us then?
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Thank you Cindy. Your eye for exquisite beauty is a perfect relief from and counterpoint to the many heavy stories in the news. It’s so good to be reminded that no matter what insanity the humans in charge are up to, beauty is everywhere around us-healing nature, beautiful flowers, soaring birds.
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Flowers shot from a taxicab through the shop window in Barcelona.
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Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Dealing a serious blow to the fracking industry, federal officials are cutting their estimate of how much oil can be drawn out of California’s Monterey Shale formation by a whopping 96 percent. Environmentalists are cheering as momentum builds behind a legislative effort to place a statewide moratorium on fracking.
The War on Drugs: Reaching Past the US Prison System to Latin America
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Paul Gottinger and Ken Klippenstein, Truthout: Newly obtained documents reveal that the US government has continued to provide substantial weapons support for the unelected Egyptian military regime.
“Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” A Step Too Far for the Ultra-Right in the Netherlands?
Marjolein Van Der Veen, Dollars & Sense: Racism in the Netherlands is being fueled by right-wing politicians like Geert Wilders. On the evening of nationwide municipal elections in March, Wilders asked supporters whether they would like more Moroccans in the city, or fewer. His audience chanted “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” To which Wilders responded, “We’ll take care of that.”
Justice Stevens and a Bold Vision to Reclaim Our Democracy
John Bonifaz and Ryan O’Donnell, Truthout: John Paul Stevens, retired justice of the US Supreme Court, appeared recently before the US Senate to argue for a constitutional amendment to limit money in politics. In fact, Justice Stevens is calling for a great deal of change.
California Bans “Dark Money” in Elections After Undisclosed Koch Brothers Spending in 2012
Brad Friedman, Brad Blog: California is making it slightly more difficult for millionaires and billionaires like the Koch brothers to secretly and fraudulently influence elections in the state.
What Is Idaho Agribusiness Trying to Hide?
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The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Ironically, people like Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley, who warned us about death panels, were actually kind of right. All across the country right now, people are dying because conservative politicians are denying them the health care they need to survive.
Collective Punishment: The New Law of the United Kingdom?
Aviva Stahl, Truthout: The United Kingdom Terrorism Act of 2000 gave courts the power to seize assets used to commit or promote terrorist activities, but was never intended to include the family home… until now. A Manchester case threatens the right to respect for private and family life.
How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Excess 101
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People Are Not Mice: The Failing Animal Research Paradigm for Human Disease
John J. Pippin, Independent Science News: More than 40 years after the launch of the war on cancer by President Richard Nixon, that war is still being lost in laboratories pursuing mouse experiments. Choose almost any area of medical research using mice, and you will see a failed paradigm often spanning several decades.
How the International Monetary Conference Helped Fuel the 1980s Debt Crisis
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: At the 1980 International Monetary Conference meeting, two years before the debt crisis erupted, leading bankers warned that since the world’s major banks were big lenders to each other, there was “a danger that if one large institution were to fail, a chain reaction could be started that would topple other banks around the world.”
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The Greatest Modern Presidential Speech Turns 50
John de Graaf, Truthout: Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson chose not to believe Americans were condemned to “soulless wealth.” He elucidated a new ideal, “The Great Society,” valuing quality of life above quantity of stuff.
How The War on Workers Is Changing
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: While the war on workers has been eating away at the income of working-class Americans, its ultimate goal is to turn the nation’s activist, working middle class into a disempowered, working poor class. To do that, the forces behind the War on Workers have to shift their focus to the state level.
Under the Surface: Fracking Wastewater Proves Devastating to Mayflies
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