The Left Forum 2014 (audio)

Amber Larson, Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; NYC, LeftForum.org

Left Forum 2014 Special Programming (KPFKorg) (ARCHIVE)

Saying no to our U.S. "War Criminals" (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org)

In yer face, killer, war criminal! (Code Pink)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- a war criminal and unindicted co-conspirator along with Dick Cheney, Karl "the Architect" Rove, both George Bush(es), Donald Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft -- was forced to withdraw as commencement speaker at Rutgers University following protests by faculty and students over her role in the 2003 American (U.S.)-led invasion of Iraq and our torture of captives.

 

Seeking justice with a torture lawsuit

Rutgers faculty circulated a petition decrying the role Rice played in "efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." 

 

G.W. Bush, Condi Rice on way to jail (CP)

Last week, Rutgers students occupied a campus building in a call for the invitation (and its $35,000 stipend) to be withdrawn. In a statement this weekend, Rice said her appearance "has become a distraction."

The "No Rice Campaign" at Rutgers is discussed by student protester Carmelo Cintrón Vivas and Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. More

 

PEACE ON EARTH! WOMEN FOR JUSTICE, CODE PINK FOR PEACE (codepink.org)

Occupy Wall Street on Trial: Cecily McMillan convicted of assaulting cop, faces seven years

• "You might get hit by a car": On secret tape, FBI threatens American-Muslim refusing to be an informant 
• Secret tape could oust Clippers owner Donald Sterling, but has NBA long ignored his public racism? 
• Posing as U.S. officials, Yes-Men announce renewable energy revolution at Homeland Security Congress
• Ralph Nader on TPP, GM recall, nuclear power, and the "Unstoppable" left-right anti-corporate movement

NYC to reform Stop and Frisk, end racial profiling 

New York’s new Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the city will drop its appeal of a ruling by a U.S. district court that found the NYPD’s controversial "stop-and-frisk" program unconstitutional and settle an ongoing lawsuit.

 

Years after vowing to close Gitmo, Obama signed NDAA instead

Saying he would close Guantánamo years after it opened, Pres. Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, barring the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the notorious American torture prison in Cuba to U.S. soil. Of the 166 prisoners remaining, 86 have been cleared for release...

Conscious Life Expo 2014; Life in Space

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; ConsciousLifeExpo.com

Los Angeles 2014: February 7-9, LAX Airport Hilton. Be a speaker or come hear:

George Noory, Dr. Deborah King, Dr. Mario Martinez, Actah, William Henry, Dannion Brinkley, Emy Shanti, Paramahansa Jagadish, Dr. Dain Heer, Celeste Yamall, and many more

The amazing Linda Moulton Howe (EarthFiles.com) revealing the mysteries of the universe to us for hours after her talk (WQ/Conscious Life Expo, LAX Hilton, 2012)

 

8.8 Billion “Goldilocks” Planets in Milky Way

(EarthFiles.com, Nov. 11, 2013)

Of the estimated 200 billion stars in just our Milky Way Galaxy alone, scientists report that 40 billion are similar to our yellow sun. One-fifth of yellow suns have earth-size planets in the “Goldilocks” zone of temperatures to sustain life as we know it. More

 

“Just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, that's 8.8 billion throws of the biological dice.”

- Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley

• 2 Million-Year-Old Skulls to Rewrite Human Evolution 
• (Nov. 23, 2013) Snowden Leak: NSA Has Infected 50,000 Computer Networks with Malicious Software
• NSA Misled FISA Court