On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to former US assistant secretary of state for public affairs, P.J. Crowley, about his resignation following remarks about whistle blower Bradley Manning’s treatment in military detention and his thoughts about drones and US foreign policy.
March 2013
Ohio man Michael Blevins, 62, has been arrested and charged for harming a robot. Is this the next logical news item we should expect to see in a world with cybernetic hate crime? Via…
Via CBS News, how the end of the world begins: Officials say a vial containing a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever has gone missing from a research facility in Galveston, but…
Luke Rudkowski interviews David Earl Williams III, former WeAreChange Chicago member who is now running for office in his area. David’s objective for being in office is to try to reign in government on issues in which is has gotten too involved in people’s lives. This includes decriminalizing marijuana to help to bring an end to the biased and failing drug war and also nullifying the NDAA.
Find out more about David Earl Williams III:http://dewforcongress2014.com
Via WeAreChange
So claims an article in the country’s paper of record. The point is that fighting a war on drugs will become increasingly surreal as the ways in which people get high multiply….
What’s a poor farmer supposed to do when his or her land is caught up in an investment bubble? Via The American: Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable…
Via ScienceDaily: Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose…
Richard (R.J.) Eskow writes at Alternet: Can 147 people perpetuate economic injustice – and make it even worse? Can they subvert the workings of democracy, both abroad and here in the United…
We’ve all been told that the Salem witch trials – in which twenty people were put to death – were the low point in the judicial history of North America. Now a…
Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe Media: Hello, escapism. My name is Aaron and I’m sure we’ve met. At some point, you wake up one morning, wipe the blood still oozing from your…
My spin on this would be a Maury Povich-style “my bad kid” episode focusing on children who are the reincarnations of Nazi officers, bloodthirsty cannibals, et cetera. Via the Huffington Post: A…
Via orwellwasright: Erich Fromm once said, “Anyone who will think about it knows the machinations of propaganda, the method by which critical judgment is destroyed, how the mind is lulled into submission…
To quote Futurama, “War were declared.” Hopefully this is more posturing. Things could get messy quick, regionally speaking. Snip: It is the resolute answer of the DPRK and its steadfast stand to…
Nelson Mandela is fighting for his life again—his third hospitalization in four months as the world looks on with silent prayers. The media attention he is receiving speaks to the respect with…
The Christian Science Monitor on dreaming up alternative methods of community governance, via the successful case of an indigenous town plagued by criminal gangs from the outside: The indigenous town of Cherán…
Maryam Henein, co-director of the colony collapse documentary The Vanishing of the Bees, now investigates some worrying developments that–gasp–threaten chocolate as we know and love it, at Honey Colony: Back in the…
Some people have all the luck. Some people get excited when they win a free order of fries and that’s the best they get. Not my pal, Hamilton Morris. No, he gets…
What makes someone a menace to the world? The Knitting Genealogist on reasons given for why people were committed to the Retreat, a progressive asylum two hundred years ago: Whilst researching, I was…
Filmmaker/journalist Abraham Riesman interviews Doug Rushkoff as his new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now hits stores (text story also at BetaBeat):
The alarm has been sounded by great documentary films like The Vanishing of the Bees, but governments around the world are still failing to protect our bees and therefore our food supply…
via chycho To say that our education system is broken and in need of a gargantuan overhaul is an understatement, but it will happen since it is an inevitable side effect of…
A case of confusion? A hoax? Or the emergence of a new, adorable little cousin to Sasquatch? The Telegraph reports: Terri Leigh Cox, 17, says that she saw something hunched over and…
One of the absolute creepiest things about the corporate media monolith created in the wake of deregulation is the way they have completely and seemingly irreparably poisoned the word feminism in the…
Have you ever heard of the US Army’s Intelligence Support Activity unit? Not many people have, and there’s not much written about it. Surprisingly one of the best sources is in a…
Most of us know they do it, but did you know it’s openly and perfectly legal? Via Project Censored: In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion…