Israeli soldiers wound 9 pacifists

In Hebron, nine foreign pacifist demonstrators were beaten by Israeli soldiers. Also, five Israeli citizens were arrested. They were protesting the illegal wall around Gaza. Full story here.

Themes for Revolution

This is a short list of books, movies and music that have inspired me in the past to question the world around me and challenge the status quo. Enjoy.

Books
1984, by George Orwell
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Waste Land, by T.S. Elliot
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzche

Movies
Fight Club, with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt
The Matrix, with Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne
Fahrenheit 9-11, by Michael Moore
V for Vendetta, with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving
Children of Men, with Clive Owen and Julianne Moore

Music
Rage Against The Machine:
System of A Down
The Nightwatchman (aka Tom Morello)
Flobots
Bob Dylan
Everlast
Public Enemy

Video from the voyage of the Spirit of Humanity, immediately before they were hijacked.

Democracy in Action: Afghanistan

So much for a fair trial...

Sinking the Pirate Bay

My favorite quote from this article:
"If you could make as much bread, or have as many fishes, as you needed to feed everyone, at the cost of the first loaf and the first fish plus a button press, what would be the morality for charging more for loaves and fishes than the poorest person could afford to pay?"

Interview and video

Video of the Spirit of Humanity's hijacking by the Israeli navy, and an interview with former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney who was one of the passengers. Video's at the bottom of the page, by the way...

"We are unarmed civilians..."

Bin Laden and the CIA, by Kurt Nimmo

"How can you call George Bush a mass murderer?" a recent email asked. "In order for him to be classified as a mass murderer, he would have to kill all those people you say he's killed with his own hands."

Let us begin by using the logic of government, in particular the government of California when it prosecuted Charles Manson over thirty years ago. Manson did not personally murder Sharon Tate, et al, he ordered his crazed minions to do it. In fact, when the murders occurred, Manson wasn't even at the scene. Yet he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (a sentence that was never carried out after California repealed in the death penalty in the early 70s).

If we use the above criteria, Bush is a mass murderer.

And now for something completely different...

I'm just now figuring out how mentally inadequate our Vice President is....

Biden's double standards

Vice President Joe Biden on Israel potentially attacking Iran:

"We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they're existentially threatened."

Really? America can't tell other countries what to do? The U.S. can't dictate foreign policy? We seem to have no problem dictating foreign policy to Iran...

Interview from an Israeli Prison Cellblock

Phone interview with Kidnapped former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney:


This is Cynthia McKinney and I'm speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies - and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

Full article here....

Free Gaza "Prison" Video

An video from The Free Gaza movement. They've been arrested, by the way... Full story to be found here .