I, European citizen, won’t let refugees be rejected in my name
Thursday March 10, 2016 ©Olivier Jobard/Myop I, European citizen, won’t let refugees be rejected in my name THE RIGHT TO ASYLUM IS A RIGHT In the phrase « right to asylum », every word matters. Under the law, every person who is persecuted because of his or her political opinions or because of his or her identity, every person that is endangered by violence, war or misery has a RIGHT to seek asylum in another country The aim of this petition is to collect (...)
read more, comments... Neo-Nazis and far-right protesters in Ukraine 3 live-stream
Friday January 24, 2014 The far-right in Ukraine are acting as the vanguard of a protest movement that is being reported as pro-democracy. The situation on the ground is not as simple as pro-EU and trade versus pro-Putin and Russian hegemony in the region. When US Senator John McCain dined with Ukraine’s opposition leaders in December, he shared a table and later a stage with the leader of the extreme far-right Svoboda party Oleh Tyahnybok. This is Oleh Tyahnybok, he has claimed a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" (...)
read more, comments... Hugo Chavez is dead (video live)
By : Collective BELLACIAO - Wednesday March 6, 2013 President Hugo Chavez companeros venezueliano died after a long battle with cancer.
read more, comments... International initiative to stop the war in Syria Yes to democracy, no to foreign intervention!
Thursday December 13, 2012 Your support here: http://www.peaceinsyria.org/support.php We, the undersigned, who are part of an international civil society increasingly worried about the awful bloodshed of the Syrian people, are supporting a political initiative based on the results of a fact-finding mission which some of our colleagues undertook to Beirut and Damascus in September 2012. This initiative consists in calling for a delegation of highranking personalities and public figures to go to Syria in order to (...)
read more, comments... THE KU KLUX KLAN ONCE AGAIN CONTROLS INDIANA
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Monday November 12, 2012 At first glance, the results of America’s 2012 election appear to be a triumph for social, racial, and economic justice and progress in the United States: California voters passed a proposition requiring the rich to shoulder their fair share of the tax burden; Two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized the recreational use of marijuana, while Massachusetts approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes; Washington and two other states, Maine and Maryland, legalized same-sex (...)
read more, comments... I’VE DECIDED TO "WASTE" MY VOTE
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Sunday October 28, 2012 In a 2004 episode of Comedy Central’s animated series South Park, an election was held to determine whether the new mascot for the town’s elementary school would be a “giant douche” or a “turd sandwich.” Confronted with these two equally unpalatable choices, one child, Stan Marsh, refused to vote at all, which resulted in his ostracization and subsequent banishment from the town. Although this satirical vulgarity was intended as a commentary on the two (...)
read more, comments... HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? PART IV
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Friday September 28, 2012 PART I PART II PART III If there is one major inconsistency in life, it is that young people who know little more than family, friends and school are suddenly, at the age of eighteen, supposed to decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, because of their limited life experiences, the illusions they have about certain occupations do not always comport to the realities. I discovered this the first time I went to college. About a year into my studies, I (...)
read more, comments... HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? PART III
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Friday September 28, 2012 PART I PART II PART IV Disillusioned with the machinations of so-called “traditional” colleges, I became an adjunct instructor at several “for-profit” colleges. Thanks largely to the power and pervasiveness of the Internet, “for-profit” colleges (hereinafter for-profits) have become a growing phenomenon in America. They have also been the subject of much political debate and the focus of a Frontline special entitled College Inc. Unlike traditional (...)
read more, comments... HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? PART II
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Friday September 28, 2012 PART I PART III PART IV Several years ago, a young lady came into the college where I was teaching to inquire about a full-time instructor’s position in the sociology department. She was advised that only adjunct positions were available. Her response was, “No thanks. Once an adjunct, always an adjunct.” Her words still echo in my mind. Even as colleges and universities raise their tuition costs, they are relying more and more on adjunct instructors. Adjuncts are (...)
read more, comments... HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? PART I
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Friday September 28, 2012 PART II PART III PART IV When The Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitution over two hundred years ago, Americans were blessed with many rights considered to be “fundamental.” One conspicuously missing, however, was the right to an education. This was not surprising given the tenor of the times. America was primarily an agrarian culture, and education, especially higher education, was viewed as a privilege reserved for the children of the rich and (...)
read more, comments... ONE SOLITARY LIFE, PART TWO
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Monday July 30, 2012 If there is one universal question that haunts all human beings at some point in their lives, it is, “Why do we die?” Death, after all, is the great illogic. It ultimately claims all, the rich and the poor, the mighty and the small, the good and the evil. Death also has the capability to make most human pursuits—such as the quest for wealth, fame and power—vacuous and fleeting. Given this reality, I have often wondered why so many people are still willing to (...)
read more, comments... HOW MUCH CORRUPTION CAN DEMOCRACY ENDURE?
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Thursday June 28, 2012 How much corruption can a “democracy” endure before it ceases to be a democracy? If five venal, mendacious, duplicitous, amoral, biased and (dare I say it) satanic Supreme Court “justices”—John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy—have their way, America will soon find out. In several previous articles for Pravda.Ru, I have consistently warned how the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision is one of the (...)
read more, comments... DEMOCRACY IN THE HANDS OF IDIOTS, PART TWO
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Tuesday June 12, 2012 Imagine, if you will, that the United States government passes a law banning advertisers from sponsoring commercials on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show or Rupert Murdoch’s Fox (Faux) “News” Network. On one hand, there would be two decided advantages to this ban: The National IQ would undoubtedly increase several percentage points, and manipulative pseudo-journalists would no longer be able to appeal to the basest instincts in human nature for ratings and profit while (...)
read more, comments... DEMOCRACY IN THE HANDS OF IDIOTS
By : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor - Thursday June 7, 2012 LIVE, from the State that brought you Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin voters now proudly present, fresh from his recall election victory, Governor Scott Walker! At first glance, it is almost unfathomable that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have voted to retain Scott Walker as Wisconsin’s governor. This, after all, is a man who openly declared he is trying to destroy the rights of workers through a “divide and conquer” strategy; who received 61% of the (...)
read more, comments... PEOPLE WITHOUT SOULS
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Tuesday March 13, 2012 A question I’ve frequently been asked since I began writing for Pravda.Ru in 2003 is, “Why did you become disillusioned with the practice of law?” This question is understandable, particularly since, in most people’s minds, being an attorney is synonymous with wealth and political power. I’ve always been reluctant to answer this question for fear it will discourage conscientious and ethical people from pursuing careers in the legal profession—a (...)
read more, comments... MAY GOD DAMN WALL STREET, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE SUPREME COURT
By : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor - Monday February 13, 2012 Don’t say I didn’t warn you. In my article The Greatest Threat to America, I stated that the five so-called “conservative” members of the United States Supreme Court—Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts and Kennedy—“have destroyed American democracy and its fundamental freedoms more ruthlessly and effectively than any terrorist group in the world” (Pravda.Ru 01/27/2010). They accomplished this in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal (...)
read more, comments... Press Release – Collectif Bellaciao sued in defamation by Mario SANDOVAL
By : Collectif BELLACIAO - Wednesday January 11, 2012 On January 12, 2012, Roberto Ferrario, one of the spokesmen of the Collectif BELLACIAO, will appear before the Criminal Court of Auxerre, assisted by his lawyer, Maître France WEYL, following a libel suit that Mr. Mario Sandoval filed against several media, including Marianne2, Mediapart, Le Grand Soir, Courrier International, France Info, El Correo, Calpa ... Mr. Mario Sandoval, a former Argentine police officer, sues BELLACIAO for the publication, on our forum, of an article released by (...)
read more, comments... From Occupation to Revolution
By : John Spritzler and Dave Stratman - Wednesday November 9, 2011 There is no step the OWS movement can take that would have greater impact than to decide explicitly that its goal is revolution. Transforming the whole society has in fact underlain the movement from the start. It is implicit in the movement’s profound commitment to democracy, to equality among participants, to sharing and support for each other. Why should the values embodied in OWS be limited to a few blocks in towns and cities across America? The movement’s refusal to (...)
read more, comments... APPEAL OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF VICTIMS OF AGENT ORANGE/DIOXINE
By : André Bouny - Wednesday August 31, 2011 Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 9th August, 2011 The Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, held in Hanoi from August 8th to 9th, 2011 included participants from around the world: Agent Orange victims, victims of other toxic chemicals, scientists, lawyers and social activists. The conference is a significant and important historic event, marking the 50th anniversary of the first spraying of the toxic chemical Agent Orange (1961-1971) by the U.S. forces (...)
read more, comments... Remembering Carlo Giuliani in Berlin (video)
By : Berlin - Wednesday July 20, 2011 Ten years ago Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by police at the G8 protests in Genoa, Italy. His death marked the escalation of a transnational struggle against capitalist globalization. Yesterday, anti-capitalists in Berlin remembered the tragic loss of the young militants life and vented their anger against a murderous system. In the last weeks numerous stencils and posters announced a demonstration in remembrance of Carlo Giuliani. The posters stated explicitly that the demonstration would (...)
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